Post by Séamus on Aug 24, 2020 4:37:08 GMT
In my early teens I had no I idea that Simply Red were referring to Ronald Reagan when singing about "the old man in Capitol Hill",or that "did the earth move for you Nancy" refered to his wife,in fact I'm not sure that I ever caught that line at all,I certainly didn't catch Reaganomics in the lyrics.
While the Western social ideology struggles of that time might bring mostly USA and Britain,with some mention of Thatcher's viewing IRA as a communist organisation, to mind,an obituary of former FIAT boss Cesare Romiti,who died at 97 last week,shows a European slant when remembering the same times.
"in 1980 he helped break a weeks-long strike by factory workers with a march of 40,000 FIAT managers and other white-collar workers through Turin...the strike was triggered by Fiat's plans to fire 14,000 workers"
So like mining vs Thatcherism we can sympathize with both sides. Oscar Romero,no less,was big enough to view the full panorama,losing his life in the process. But it gets interesting.
"For Romiti the strike was more than a walkout that had crippled production. He contended that elements of the Red Brigades,an extreme Left terrorist organisation whose shooting and kneecappings targeted business executives, magistrates and journalists among others had inflitrated the higher ranks of the CGIL labour union confederation. The union enjoyed the staunch backing of the Italian Communist Party,then the biggest communist force in the West."
I can remember seeing tv footage of Red Brigade's shooting when I was about 6 or 8.
Nobody can deny the times that were in it.
"'I had 60 persons who were kneecapped', Romiti said in a 2010 interview with Avvenire Catholic daily,..Among those assassinated by the Red Brigades was a Fiat planning manager and, Romiti noted,he himself had been the target of an attempted kidnapping"
As well as outliving many of the protagonists of the time, John Paul included, Cesare is also an interesting study for the span of his life,from his anti-fascist background,his father apparently fired from the postal service for criticism levelled against Mussolini,to retirement in 1998- "by then Fiat's market share in Italy had dropped below 40% as foreign brands had gained popularity with consumers...",he also established an Italy-China foundation in 2003, highlighting new generational apocalypses,
While the Western social ideology struggles of that time might bring mostly USA and Britain,with some mention of Thatcher's viewing IRA as a communist organisation, to mind,an obituary of former FIAT boss Cesare Romiti,who died at 97 last week,shows a European slant when remembering the same times.
"in 1980 he helped break a weeks-long strike by factory workers with a march of 40,000 FIAT managers and other white-collar workers through Turin...the strike was triggered by Fiat's plans to fire 14,000 workers"
So like mining vs Thatcherism we can sympathize with both sides. Oscar Romero,no less,was big enough to view the full panorama,losing his life in the process. But it gets interesting.
"For Romiti the strike was more than a walkout that had crippled production. He contended that elements of the Red Brigades,an extreme Left terrorist organisation whose shooting and kneecappings targeted business executives, magistrates and journalists among others had inflitrated the higher ranks of the CGIL labour union confederation. The union enjoyed the staunch backing of the Italian Communist Party,then the biggest communist force in the West."
I can remember seeing tv footage of Red Brigade's shooting when I was about 6 or 8.
Nobody can deny the times that were in it.
"'I had 60 persons who were kneecapped', Romiti said in a 2010 interview with Avvenire Catholic daily,..Among those assassinated by the Red Brigades was a Fiat planning manager and, Romiti noted,he himself had been the target of an attempted kidnapping"
As well as outliving many of the protagonists of the time, John Paul included, Cesare is also an interesting study for the span of his life,from his anti-fascist background,his father apparently fired from the postal service for criticism levelled against Mussolini,to retirement in 1998- "by then Fiat's market share in Italy had dropped below 40% as foreign brands had gained popularity with consumers...",he also established an Italy-China foundation in 2003, highlighting new generational apocalypses,