Today, we too – a newspaper without bosses – are going on strike. We are joining the day of struggle decided by the Italian journalists’ union against publishers who refuse to recognize the value of journalistic work and think they can offload the weight of the crisis onto editorial staff.

Tomorrow, November 29, we will not be on newsstands; you will not find a new edition of our podcast Una Mattina, and today the website will not be updated. The collective contract for which the strike has been called doesn’t have significant effects for us; in no even would we be applying the rules proposed by employers that penalize new hires. We are a cooperative; we do not have a publisher to strike against, and by stopping work we create inconvenience for our readers and damage only ourselves economically.

Nonetheless, after extensive discussion in our assembly, we decided to strike anyway.

We always take strikes very seriously. The front page of the first issue of il manifesto as a daily newspaper, almost 55 years ago, was dedicated to a strike. Recently, we happened to trade barbs with the confederal union because it was slow to organize a strike against the Israeli massacres in Gaza. When the decision finally came, on........

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