By our Italian Correspondent – In January, for several weeks, Italy was hit by an important popular protest; The movement, called "Movimento dei Forconi", was born in Sicily, launched by Sicilian farmers, protesting about massive and unchecked food import from China and other countries, and the necessity to return to the local, valuable, rural land.

As well as the farmers, local lorry drivers also joined the protest, with their own complaints regarding the absurd increase of taxation on fuels that doesn’t allow lorry drivers to do their own work.

From the middle of January, farmers and lorry drivers, united against the promulgation by Monti's Government of the law on liberalization and deregulation, blocked the principal highway for several weeks, leaving the main Sicilian cities without petrol and food.

According to the Italian Home Office, since the first days of the Sicilian protest, and immediately after it began spreading through the others regions of Italy (Calabria, Abruzzo, Marche, Veneto etc), the only political party that was on the front line of the protest was the nationalist party, Forza Nuova.

The Forza Nuova, which is Roberto Fiore's nationalist movement was in fact the only party in a protest against parties and political class that was, from the beginning, standing shoulder to shoulder with the farmers and lorry drivers, organising and supporting the civil disobedience, and helping the workers to demand their own rights, in opposition to the government and the political class.

In front of the unexpected size of the growing protests, the government and the Italian media begin to delegitimize the movement, attacking it with, among others, accusations of Mafia infiltrations. The movement was also inaccurately portrayed in the media as being ‘against the people’ for causing 'inconveniences to the population'.

From the very beginnings of the protests, the European Union was pressing the Italian Government to repress the demonstrations because of the damage caused to the European commercial links with Italy, due to the block of several highways!

At the end of January the demonstrations increased in numbers and "Movimento dei Forconi" and its’ leader, Martino Morsello, begin to submit their political proposals to the Sicilian Governor Raffaele Lombardo.

In a meeting with Raffaele, the farmers asked him to make fuel tax exempt, reducing the cost of the fuel to 70 cents per litre, as well as tax exempting gas, oil and electricity. He was also asked to suspend the collection notices (bailiff executions) for two years, to stage an intervention on agricultural Italian and European legislation, and, most important, to constitute in Sicily a free trade zone with its own monetary sovereignty.

The revolutionary proposal to create monetary sovereignty in Sicily was strongly supported by Forza Nuova, who had already proposed this solution over the last few months in other small Italian cities as an answer to the problem of the lack of liquidity in the economical system due to the ever increasing European economic crisis.

On the 27th of January, the former MEP Roberto Fiore, Forza Nuova's leader, Martino Morsello, Movimento dei Forconi's leader, and others speakers representing various associations held a big and popular demonstration in Palermo, and held a meeting in Marsala (Sicily) on the monetary sovereignty.

In Roma, on the 25th of February, Fiore and Morsello will launch a platform of Popular Revolt that will engage Italian politics in the next months.

As well as these highly successful civil disobediences in Sicily, oil traders in the City and the USA are predicting that the US/Zionist/Hague sabre-rattling versus Iran will lead to fuel prices rising by 50% within the next few months.

If, or, as is more likely, when, that happens, we expect to see renewed fuel protests developing in Britain too, and we'll support them all the way.