Shahzad murdered by institutional racism
The murder of the young Pakistani Muhammed Shahzad Khan was not a casual accident, was not inevitable. The main responsible for this murder are the State, the institutions, and the mainstream press, that with their racist policies (the same policies causing the massacre of migrants in the Mediterranean sea) and with their xenophobic propaganda have been spreading for years among Italian workers and young proletarians feelings of hostility against immigrant workers.
They want unemployed or precarious workers, people living in the suburbs, people living a life with no prospects, to direct their righteous anger not against the real responsible for this situation (i.e. the State institutions and the bosses of economy and industry who support State institutions), but against a false target: the immigrants. They want Italian working people to get angry at whom is forced to conditions of super-exploitation, blackmail, and exclusion by the policies of capitalists and their representatives in the State institutions.
To instill in Italian workers and young people contempt and suspicion toward immigrants (especially if Muslims) also serves to build popular consent towards the wars of oppression and robbery that Italy and the other Western nations are leading (more or less explicitly) against Afghanistan, Middle East, Ukraine and Libya.
This is the context, deliberately prepared, in which tragic events like those of Torpignattara happen.
It is necessary to promote and carry out a self-organization process of immigrant workers which also could guarantee their defense and their physical safety, so that such tragedies would not happen again.
It is necessary to fight for full rights for immigrant workers, to fight against all the racist laws and measures and, on this basis, to aim tenaciously at building moments of common debate, organization and mobilization among Italian and immigrant workers. It is necessary to fight to defend ourselves together by unemployment and precariousness, to claim good social services, decent housing, and health care for all, to impose decent life conditions.
We cannot count on a hypothetical “fair part” of the exploiter class and of their State institutions or Government. On the contrary, the Renzi Government has to be denounced as the responsible for the stranglehold on immigrant workers and, although in different forms, on Italian workers.
The Renzi Government is preparing to dismantle what remains of the Statute of workers' rights and of the Article 18, and is preparing to attack all the workers, young and old, Italian and immigrant. This internal attack couples with the Western military missions that the Renzi Government supports by fully taking part in them. With their wars of aggression, in fact, the Western powers aim to enslave the people of the global South and to push millions of people to migrate to Western countries, becoming blackmailable labour force in the service of the exploiters.
Italian workers will be able to defend themselves only by struggling together with the immigrants. Otherwise, Italian workers are going to sink along with the immigrants. For this reason, the rage of the many “Daniel” of suburbs has not to be calmed down or suppressed. It has to be collected and aimed in the right direction. Against the rulers, against the capitalists, against their Governments, against their State institutions. That is, against the real responsible for the conditions of misery, fear, and insecurity in which every day we are forced to live.