From the January 2020 issue of
Scintilla (Spark), organ of the Communist Platform of
Italy [ piattaformacomunista.com/ ]
The Danger
of the 5G Network in Factories and in the Area
Below is the speech made on behalf of
the Lombardy Communist Coordination during the Assembly-debate on the
anniversary of the Thyssen massacre [from a fire leading to the
deaths of seven workers in a Thyssen-Krupp plant in Turin, December
6, 2007 – translator’s note], held in Turin on December 7,
2019.
Today we are gathered here on the
occasion of the massacre of Thyssen workers in order to build the
unity and organization of the workers to oppose the subordination of
health to the logic of profit and the market and to claim the right
to safety at the workplace and in the area.
As the Lombardy Communist Coordination
we want to bring our solidarity and support to this important
initiative by emphasizing what will almost certainly be one of the
next frontiers to combat danger in the factories and urban centers.
We are referring to 5G technology, i.e.
the fifth generation mobile communication network, whose harmful
effects on workers and the general population are deliberately
discussed very little by the authorities and institutions. However,
there is much confusion even among the most advanced workers who are
fighting for health protection.
One of the technological requirements
of the new production model called Factory 4.0 is precisely the
existence of an extremely fast communication infrastructure capable
of simultaneously supporting millions of transmissions, each with a
large amount of data.
In fact, in order for the Factory 4.0
production model to achieve the maximum possible automation, it is
expected that every single elementary component, which will end up
constituting the finished product, will incorporate a microchip that
communicates with the other microchips present in robots and machines
that control the production process, with computers that manage the
workshop stocks, with computers that provide the external components,
with computers that plan production, etc.
Without going into technical details,
the 5G mobile communication network, in order to respond to these
technological requirements, must use with very high-frequency
microwave transmissions (i.e. millimeter waves); however so far these
are reserved for the military to develop new generations of weapons
mainly intended to repress the population (such as the United States
Department of Defense's Non-Lethal Weapons Program).
Millimeter waves are limited in their
ability to transmit beyond a short distances and their signals
blocked by obstacles such as walls, trees, etc.; therefore, the 5G
network needs countless transmitters placed at a maximum distance of
50-100 meters from each other and at the height of a human being in
order to function.
This means that, in 4.0 factories, the
departments will be filled with transmitters that will continuously
expose workers to millimeter-wave radio frequency radiation; this is
only the start, however, because the next phase of 5G will involve
the population at mass level, to make it possible, for example, to
implement self-driving vehicles or the “Internet of Things.” Just
think that within a few years, the installation of millions of
transmitters are planned in the area, as well as the launching into
space of over 20,000 dedicated satellites, over 200 billion objects
that will incorporate transmitting microchips. This means that if the
5G network is completed, no human being, no animal, no microorganism
and no plant on Earth will be able to avoid exposure, 24 hours a day
and 365 days a year, to radiation levels at radio frequency thousands
of times greater than those that exist today, with no possibility of
escape.
What is the problem? We are not against
progress if this benefits the workers and population in general!
The problem lies in the harmfulness of
radio frequency radiation. As early as 2011 the International Agency
for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the World Health Organization (WHO)
classified radio frequency radiation as potentially carcinogenic to
humans. Since then thousands of independent scientific studies,
ignored by governments and discredited by partisan
counter-researches, financed directly or indirectly by the industries
in that sector, have shown harmful short-term effects, such as
alterations of heart rhythms, alterations of brain function
(dizziness, nausea, headache, memory loss and inability to
concentrate) and long-term effects, which often appear only 20 or 30
years later, such as cancer, heart disease, collapse of the immune
system and neurological problems.
The causal link between exposure to
radio frequency radiation and the harmful effects have been
emphasized, among others, by two agencies that together represent the
world's leading authorities in the field: the United States
government's National Toxicology Program and the Ramazzini Institute
of Bologna in Italy. The latter analyzed radio frequency radiation
exposures a thousand times lower than those used in the study on cell
phones conducted by the National Toxicology Program and yet found the
same types of cancer.
Both studies have found statistically
significant increases in the development of the same type of
malignant heart tumors in exposed male rats and brain tumors in
female rats. Therefore, as stated by the Ramazzini Institute, the
observation of an increase in the same type of tumors, however rare,
thousands of kilometers away, in rats of the same strain exposed to
the same radio frequency radiation is not coincidental. It is also
very important to emphasize the fact that epidemiological studies
(i.e. population studies) have found same type of tumors in heavy
cell phones users.
If these are the health risks
associated with the use of 5G technology, the analogy to the tragic
history of asbestos, the harmful effects of which had been known
since 1906 but which was only banned in Italy in 1992, cannot fail to
come to mind, and still continue to produce deaths.
Being aware of the threats to the
health of workers and the population in general from modern
technologies that support the new Factory 4.0 production model allows
us to organize more effectively to resist the destruction of life and
the environment and to begin building of a society free from danger
and profit.
Lombardy Communist Coordination
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