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Rete dei Comunisti / Cambiare Rotta / OSA
As the Rete dei Comunisti, Cambiare Rotta (Communist Youth Organisation), and OSA (Opposition Students’ Alternative) we are fully satisfied with both the success of the unitary march on November 30th in Rome and Milan, and the organisational meeting of the members of the assembly of November 9th, held in Rome on December 1st, which set itself the goal of moving “towards a national anti-Zionist and anti-colonialist network for Palestine”.
These initiatives were two important moments to which we made our contribution in the wake of the action, reflection, and unitary cooperation that we have been pursuing for some time with other socio-political forces on the basis of clarity of positions and shared goals.
Our organisation has in its ‘genetic code’ an internationalist approach that has always valued Arab-Palestinian resistance in the face of the Zionist cancer.
We have always considered Israel as a pivot in the strategy of global counter-revolution: a function it has uninterruptedly performed against the processes of decolonisation and the struggle for the liberation of oppressed peoples from its support for French colonialism in Algeria to its support for the Apartheid regime in South Africa, to name but two examples.
The Zionist state has also been at the forefront of the development of technologies and military training aimed at social control and political repression in the imperialist countries themselves, starting with the US itself, as the two successive waves of the #BlackLivesMatter movement have unequivocally brought to light by showing the connections between the US and Israel in this field.
A tendency that is reinforced by Trump’s victory in the presidential elections that had as its mass base the messianic and pro-Israel evangelical churches, and the blessing of the Zionist lobby. This tendency of Zionism to polarise the most threatening reactionary forces we saw blatantly in action on 25 April in Italy in the anti-fascist mobilisations in Milan and to a greater extent in Rome where the garrison of anti-fascists was attacked by the Zionist hordes in cahoots with the extreme right in the capital.
At present, Israel is one of the main pivots – along with the reactionary Arab regimes – of the Euro-Atlantic bloc in the Middle East, which yearns to curb the crisis of imperialism’s dominance, having long since lost its hegemonic capabilities. This role, in different quadrants of the planet, is played by other actors with the same function as rogue states: the Nazi Kiev regime in Eastern Europe, the current South Korean political leadership, the Taiwanese ‘independentists’ or the Japanese conservatives, interested in pandering to Western bellicose policies and the warmongering adventurism of its ruling classes at all costs.
All this in order to maintain an advantageous position and try to prevent the configuration of a multipolar and polycentric structure in international relations.
It is under everyone’s eyes that Israel has become the major vector of war in the ‘Middle East’ and that it fights on 7 different fronts, and it is absolutely heedless of any even timid political direction of its allies that undermines its autonomy in the pursuit of its goals: the constitution of a ‘Greater Israel’ (Eretz Israel) from the River to the Sea with a large buffer zone.
In this perspective, the neighbouring countries should be subordinate to it, on pain of being subjected in various forms to constant military pressure and constant attempts at destabilisation/balcanisation, often in cahoots with the most reactionary or pro-Western forces in the quadrant.
In the face of this, the current Meloni government’s complicity develops the political assumptions contained in the strategic partnership with Israel to which all the governments that have followed one another for the past twenty years – including those of the centre-left – have adhered, and which have implemented rather than severed relations with Tel Aviv on every level: military, political, economic and cultural.
They have promoted ‘normalisation’ with the state of Israel, which is a colonialist, segregationist, inherently bellicose as well as genocidal regime.
We think it is the task of all internationalists, progressives and sincere democrats to break this complicity, and to do so we need to sensitise the broadest sections of the subaltern classes by denouncing Israel’s current role.
It is necessary to support all this with concrete actions to get our country out of the war spiral into which a transversal pro-Israel neo-Atlanticism that unites all parliamentary political forces is dragging it.
We think that mass mobilisations, boycott initiatives and political agitation are more necessary and urgent than ever.
We also think it is important to denounce the ‘militarisation’ on the domestic front of social relations against a government action that combines austerity and authoritarianism against those who oppose its plans to create a ‘war economy’.
In fact, the popular classes are paying for the construction of this war economy with the desertification of welfare decided by the European Union and the emptying out of the trade union-political guarantees won during the last century at the price of very hard struggles.
We will continue to work hard together with the widest possible spectrum of forces in support of the initiatives that go in this direction, particularly those decided at the meeting on December 1st in Rome – strengthening this path – and the ‘general and generalised’ strike of the USB on December 13th against the war economy that Meloni and his associates would like to impose.
Communists, in our country, have always been (and continue to be) on the side of the oppressed peoples whose successes have built the indispensable background for the advancement of the instances of social-political transformation carried out by the workers’ and communist movement.