Thousands of Italian public sector and transport workers took to the streets Friday in a strike which snarled air, rail and roads as Italy’s biggest trade union protested the economic situation. “Let’s break down the wall of the economic crisis,” read a banner held up at one rally through the centre of Rome to the Colosseum.
Protesters waved the red flags of the CGIL union and chanted anti-government slogans. A rally of tens of thousands in Milan was joined by Antonio Di Pietro, a former anti-corruption judge who is one of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s fiercest critics and heads up the Italy of Values party. “The crisis is over only in Berlusconi’s home.
