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Franco Marini

Franco Marini (1933 - 2021), Italian trade unionist and politician.

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  • Renzi is like Grillo, he is the embodiment of political inconsistency serving third-party interests. (October 16 , 2012)
  • Renzi has unbridled ambition, sometimes he speaks without thinking, he's just looking for headlines. If he doesn't moderate this ambition, he'll end up going off the rails. (April 21, 2013)
  • (About [[w:Carlo Donat-Cattin]|Carlo Donat-Cattin]]]) A life characterised by a refusal to compromise. He paid a heavy price for this conception of political dignity, was not always understood, and many friends turned their backs on him.
    • Una vita caratterizzata dal rifiuto dei compromessi. Per questa concezione di dignità della politica pagò duri prezzi, non sempre fu compreso e molti amici gli voltarono le spalle.
      • As quoted in 'La forza dei principi uniti a quella della ragione, Terzafase n. 4, year IX, April 1991, pp. 6-10

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  • With Franco Marini as secretary of the CISL, we were at opposite ends of the trade union spectrum. He was to the right of Carniti, while I challenged Trentin from the left. [...] Franco Marini represented that part of the CISL that had undergone radicalisation in the 1970s and, with the capitalist restoration of the 1980s, had gradually regained control of the organisation, progressively marginalising Carniti's supporters and normalising the FIM, the metalworkers' union, in particular. He was a true Christian Democrat, not particularly left-wing within the party, indeed quite unpopular with De Mita and Martinazzoli's wing. But he was also the expression of a popular and mass idea of trade unionism and politics that has nothing to do with what is happening today. This is why, in today's politics, he could have ended up almost on the extreme left. Not because he had changed, he was always the same, but because the whole political spectrum had shifted to the right towards business and the market.
    • Con Franco Marini segretario della CISL eravamo agli estremi opposti del sindacalismo confederale. Lui era a destra di Carniti, io contestavo da sinistra Trentin. [...] Franco Marini rappresentava quella parte della Cisl che aveva subito la radicalizzazione degli anni settanta e che con la restaurazione capitalista degli anni ottanta un poco alla volta aveva ripreso il controllo dell’organizzazione, mettendo progressivamente ai margini i carnitiani e normalizzando in particolare la Fim, l’organizzazione dei metalmeccanici. Era un democristiano vero, neppure particolarmente di sinistra nel partito, anzi abbastanza inviso all’area di De Mita e di Martinazzoli. Ma era anche espressione di un’idea popolare e di massa del sindacato e della politica, che non ha nulla a che vedere con ciò che accade oggi. Per questo nella politica attuale poteva finire quasi all’estrema sinistra. Non perché egli fosse cambiato, era sempre quello, ma perché tutta la politica era franata a destra verso l’impresa ed il mercato.
  • [Regarding the upcoming elections for President of the Italian Republic in 2013] Franco Marini turned 80 last week and is preparing for his last attempt to crown a career marked by prudence, impartiality, good neighbourliness, and always in the name of popular wisdom, of which he is considered a masterful prophet.
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