Conflitti e sciopero-libertà

The annual meeting in memory of Marco Biagi and Massimo D’Antona is an opportunity to reflect on the multiple dimensions of conflict, used in the plural form in the title of this contribution. The strikes against the war in Gaza in October 2025 provide an opportunity to examine the concept of the freedom strike in the Italian legal system, as interpreted by the Constitutional Court and the judges of legitimacy and merit over the years. The positions taken by the Guarantee Commission for the implementation of strikes in essential public services have played a fundamental role, highlighting a problem of legitimacy of solidarity strikes and political protests in the Italian legal system. With the support of recent developments in the philosophy of law, which values peace as a general principle, a positive interpretation of strikes for reasons that are not purely economic or contractual is proposed. This comes at a time when Italy has rediscovered the criminal repression of public demonstrations of dissent (Decree Law n. 48/2025), in line with the neo-corporatist model of the past, and when multilateralism as a method of confrontation is in decline.