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Rete dei Comunisti
What you have in front of you is the new version of the Rete dei Comunisti (Italy) website. The new graphics and content that we have decided to propose to those who follow us on the Internet is part of an overall effort to adapt our organisation, in order to face, within the limits of our militant forces, the profound changes that have taken place in recent years on the concrete terrain of class conflict, on a planetary and continental level and in the reduced national area where we act concretely.
The pandemic has further revealed the strategic weakness of Capitalism and its mode of production, which had already become apparent with the 2007 financial crisis. Reality confirms the Marxian analysis of a production model capable, at the height of its cyclical crises, of resuming the cycle of exploitation of man and nature only with conflicts on a planetary scale, which today are much more difficult to practice due to a military balance determined by the development of nuclear weapons systems in the hands of various countries, which are beyond the control of Western imperialism.
Therefore, a crisis running towards new levels of inter-imperialist confrontation and with countries able to hold their own and outclass, on the economic terrain, the old colonial powers now in decline, such as the United States of America. We are talking about China and the alliances it manages to build through the “Belt and Road Initiative” and other forms of economic, financial and military collaboration.
Faced with this scenario, the European Union is taking giant steps towards the construction of an imperialist superstate aimed at competing, by any means necessary, in the ongoing conflict for economic, geopolitical and military domination on a global scale. The EU’s progress passes over the bodies of millions of exploited people through a powerful class struggle from above, today embodied by the Recovery Fund and the construction of the European army.
Can communists play a role in this conflict? We think so, if they are able to read and interpret the profound changes taking place, acting concretely within a class that is constantly changing its physiognomy due to the restructuring processes of state, industry, technology and big business services. In this unequal clash, of “class struggle from above”, the terrain of communication acquires a decisive role, as we have been able to observe in these two years of pandemic.
That is why we are providing a renewed communication tool, which we hope will be useful, together with the social channels we have implemented during the long lock downs of these years, to orient communists, social and political militants in the everyday conflict, first of all against the European imperialist superstate, the main enemy, here and now, of the class sectors we aim to orient and represent.
Along with the struggle to wrest spaces of agility from the class enemy in the field of communication, we are working on an overall strengthening of the organisation, through an internal structure more in line with the needs of a communist force that, like ours, acts directly and through fronts of trade union, student and political representation struggles. Communication is fundamental, but obviously insufficient if not supported by an Organisation in the flesh capable of acting every day in real conflict. This is also what the new website and our communication tools will be about.
The new website
The most evident modification concerns the graphic aspect, which tries to reflect the complexity of the political work of the Rete dei Comunisti, but at the same time aims to facilitate the search of the contents, so the navigation among the published materials acquires more modalities.
The main one is by article type, that is editorial, analysis document, statement, interventions by individual comrades and/or other organisations, initiatives and appeals.
In addition, there is the navigation by international quadrants, that is Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas, in which the interventions coming from the quadrant itself are collected together with what is produced here in terms of analysis, positions and appeals.
A third line of navigation is that by dossiers, which allow you to collect together materials concerning specific aspects, such as a single country, rather than a specific theme or even political campaigns of the Rete dei Comunisti.
The fourth way of navigating is by publication (Contropiano, International Bulletin, books and notebooks) which allows both to download the pdf of the publication itself and to access the individual materials published.
There is also an ambitious goal here, which is to be able to collect and make usable all the editorial production of the Rete dei Comunisti, from the first issues of Contropiano to the various books and notebooks.
The Rete dei Comunisti’s materials are available, and will be more and more extensive, in several languages (English, French, Spanish).
Finally, a newsletter has been prepared, to which we ask all comrades to subscribe and which will allow us to send periodically to all subscribers the list of the latest published materials, updates of political campaigns, initiatives under construction.
The relentless work of strengthening our social communication is to bring communists and militants “out of social networks”, into workplaces, schools, universities, neighbourhoods. We hope that this further contribution will serve this purpose.