Rage from Castellammare

Castellammare has a long history as a shipyard. Neapolitans learned shipbuilding from the Phoenicians and the Greeks, then became the principal shipwrights for the Romans, contributing to the Empire's domination of the Mediterranean. In 849, Neapolitan yards contributed to great Neapolitan victory against the Saracen navy fleet intending to conquer Rome, during the naval Battle of Ostia. Neapolitan shipwrights continued their activity even during the Middle Ages, thanks to extensive merchant and cultural trading between Europe and the Middle East. The Normans, Swabians, Angevins and Aragonese carried on maritime commerce, and Naples was of primary importance in the southern Tyrrhenian sea. In 1571, Neapolitan yards contributed again greatly to the successful outcome of the Battle of Lepanto by furnishing a number of ships in the victorious fleet.
In 1734 with the ascension of the Bourbons to the throne, Neapolitan shipwrights began building naval ships for the protection of the newly independent kingdom. In 1739 the first completely Bourbon frigate was launched, the S. Carlo e Partenope. In the same year in Naples, the Accademia di Marina was opened; it was the first academy in Italy for the training of naval officers. In 1780 Ferdinand IV established a Ministry of the Royal Navy and opened a shipyard at Castellammare di Stabia to build ships for the fleets of the kingdom. Ferdinand chose Castellammare as the site of the royal shipyards because of the inhabitants' reputation as master craftsmen. The Bourbons, developed the facility at Castellammare into one of the most impressive in the Mediterranean.
In 1818 at Vigliena, the first steamship of the Italic peninsula was launched, the Ferdinand I. Before the Italian unification, 1861, the yards at Castellammare had built fifty ships of medium tonnage for the navy, as well as countless smaller merchant vessels. On January 18, 1859, Francesco II witnessed the launching of what turned out to be the last ship built for the navy of Naples, the frigate Borbone.
The last years of the kingdom of Naples saw a general restructuring of port facilities. In addition to the shipyards, the Kingdom of Naples had other considerable industrial and manufacturing activity, particularly in metallurgy, an industry which drew widebased financial support from English, French and Swiss entrepreneurs.
With the unification of Italy came a reevaluation of the shipyards of the ex-Kingdom of Naples. The question of Castellammare was, of course, but one part of the much larger question of just how much industry should be assigned to the southern half of an unified nation.
Since unification, Castellammare has had to contend with numerous proposals to close the shipyards altogether. Also, it has had to battle competition from other shipyards throughout Italy. Nevertheless, between 1861 and 1918 the yards launched 83 naval vessels, many of which proved to be among the finest in the nation's fleets. From 1918 to the early 1980s, 170 more ships were built at Castellammare, some of more than 50,000 tons capacity. Two ships, well-known to all, have come from the Castellammare yards: the naval training ship, Amerigo Vespucci (1931) (as well as her sister-ship, the Cristoforo Colombo -1928), and the bathyscaph Trieste (1953) which took Auguste Piccard down to 3,150 meters in the waters off Ponza.
Nowadays the shipyard is owned by Fincantieri north Italian shipbuilder company, the largest in Europe, based in Trieste and partecipated by Italian state for decades. 2011, May 24 Fincantieri announced that Castellammare yard will definitely be closed, staff members reacted to this indignation clashing with police and ransacking a town hall. About 2.500 Neapolitans will lose their jobs.
It is not just another discriminative economic attack against Neapolitan economy, the same kind of attacks that we have seen the last 150 years, but also an abomination against an historical living monument as Castellammare shipyard is. The Neapolitans Independentists are with the protesting staff at Castellammare! We hope that people reach an awareness about the systemic discrimation the Italian state put into effect against Napolitania and its people, rise Neapolitans and kick out the invaders!!!

Fincatieri's Neapolitan staff has put Garibaldi, the hero of the Italian unification in the toilet! Very strong and symbolic action.