returned directly to the appeal of Gabriele Polo
In recent months the Government wiped out the financing public cooperative information and politics, law clearing the the individual right, replacing it with a "bottom" for the publishing industry, still completely undefined. The consequence, as far as we are concerned, is the dissolution of 2 5% of revenue . For several years our sales are in steady decline, and - to give some figures - the first nine months of 2010 copies sold at newsstands are down almost 20% over the same period in 2009, while the subscribers are 10% less the previous year. Funding between dissolved and lost copies are choking: If we fail to reverse the course of 'natural', these two facts - the first above all, for quantitative significance - will in a few months at the close of the poster . On the first point there is little to add to what has been said a thousand times and that our readers know them by heart. Deleting a right to law and replacing it with a grant budget, the current government does nothing more than to pursue one of its administrative policy objectives background, the destruction of the pluralism of information and approval. In "exchange" of nearly four million euro assured us that the law, the government has promised (to us and to all other tested co-operatives and political) among the few crumbs year-end cash surpluses : how much and when we do not know and so I may not even apply for a bank loan. All this happens in almost total silence or even with complicity of whom - against the hated government intervention in the economy - praising the ability of market regulators and pretends to believe that it is free. Liberals authentic - curiously among them are the most ardent opponents of the prime minister - and rigorous defenders of the law as a solution to all ills. They say silly things, but at the moment quite widespread. Against whom continue to fight until we voice for our rights and its public funding. The second crisis point in our discourse would be a lot longer, editorial and political revolutions in progress in the world of the involutions which is screwed on the European left, the Italian one in particular. We are within one and the other horn of the problem, both victims and protagonists. We can not get out by themselves, but we can not consider ourselves blameless. If the newspaper loses copies and is less useful than a time is because our 'average' is malfunctioning and our job lost in vivacity and curiosity, because we have become politically lazy, risking conformism. We are part (cause) of a general crisis, whose resolution is to be built. What will not happen overnight, that not only depend on us, but we can not wait for us to fall from the sky. Of all this we must continue to talk, "still looking", as Claudio Napoleoni said. If we are still alive. Because this is not at all certain, the numbers would lead us somewhere else. The "situation" described above speaks of imminent collapse. Not enough to tackle even more the trickle of wages in constant delay: that is not enough to continue working in a state that anywhere else would have led to the suspension of all activities (the last salary paid this year dates back to April and from there you went on a small down payment). Nor is the status of resolving the crisis on 16 September, we asked the Ministry of Labour, so - by that date - 25 of us are in layoffs (rotation) for two years and fourteen members of the cooperative will be in early retirement over the next few months (bringing the total number employees share in the seventies, while only five years ago we were 120). But, they said, not even enough for this "human sacrifice", because the end of public financing questions the same business continuity. E 'in this context that we must rethink our work (we do daily, the site, and special supplements), its meaning, la sua utilità, la nostra relazione con i lettori e con il «nostro mondo»: cioè il come esserci e fare politica nella particolare forma di un giornale. Coscienti che l’esito non è scontato. E, contemporaneamente, tenerci in vita facendo quadrare almeno un po’ i conti. Questo è lo stato dell'arte. La cosa più urgente, dopo il taglio dei finanziamenti pubblici, è sostituire l’editore pubblico che si defila - lo stato - con l'u nico altro editore pubblico possibile - i lettori . Per questo «riapriamo» una sottoscrizione che non dovrebbe finire mai e anticipiamo la campagna abbonamenti 2011, chiedendo everyone to participate and promote it. Within the next three months, so that by the end of 2010 came the end of the manifesto.
Gabriele Polo
