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“Praise of 20th Century Communism”. The panel discussions

EnglishDi RdC 28 Settembre 2024

Session 1 Before the Second World War: The Assault on Heaven The period following the October Revolution until the defeat of the Nazi-fascists was an extremely harsh one marked by millions of deaths in wars and revolutions, but it affirmed on the world stage the birth of a new political and class force that changed the outlook for all Humanity in that century. Today, the propaganda of the regime and the ideological apparatus of the bourgeois state want to tarnish that achievement and that merit; instead, it is the duty of communist, socialist and even democratic forces to claim that outcome that has prevented us from overflowing again into the climate of war, even nuclear war, in which we find ourselves today for some fifty years.

For a new public education in a new society

EnglishDi RdC 26 Agosto 2024

[Rete dei Comunisti in International Bulletin July 2024] On 18 and 19 May, the national Forum of Cambiare Rotta and OSA took place in Rome, a two-day discussion with intellectuals, academics, political and social realities on the need to imagine an all-round alternative for the world of public education in the face of the rubble of the neoliberal model of school, university and research. An appointment that, in the wake of the revival of the university movement through the academic boycott of Israel, demonstrated the ability of the youth structures of the Rete dei Comunisti to have an adequate reading of the current historical phase and a possibility of hegemony over broader sectors of society.

May 1st 2024, between international solidarity and class conflict

EnglishDi RdC 26 Agosto 2024

[Rete dei Comunisti in International Bulletin July 2024] For Unione Sindacale di base (USB), too, the months from the beginning of the year to the end of April were marked by numerous events and episodes of class conflict and mobilisations of solidarity with Palestine against the occupation and genocide perpetrated by the Zionist government of Netanyahu, in which the USB structures participated together with the movement in support of the resistance of that people and against the Meloni government, in which participation in the national demonstration on 1 June in Rome represented a strong commitment.

The first of June procession in Rome

EnglishDi RdC 25 Agosto 2024

[Rete dei Comunisti in International Bulletin July 2024] A first step in the construction of political and social opposition to the Meloni government. A procession of at least 10,000 people against the Meloni government crossed the streets and squares of the capital, starting from Piazza Vittorio and arriving at Porta Pia. It was an important first step of coagulation at a national level of a political and social opposition against the current executive, its pro-Atlanticist war policy, its economic choices in the direction of austerity, its racist tendencies and its attacks on civil rights, especially against women.

International Bulletin July 2024

EnglishDi RdC 25 Agosto 2024

OVERVIEW May 1st 2024, between international solidarity and class conflict For a new public education in a new society Report from the OSA and Cambiare Rotta Forum The first of June procession in Rome A first step in the construction of political and social opposition to the Meloni government

Praise of 20th century Communism: A Forum to discuss it… and reclaim it!

EnglishDi RdC 7 Luglio 2024

[Rete dei Comunisti] Was 20th century socialism and the international communist movement a failure or just a defeat? In the light of the overall regression and the war that the capitalist mode of production is once again unleashing on humanity, can the instances of emancipation and civilisation represented by the socialist experiences of the last century once again represent an antidote and an alternative? This and this is what we intend to discuss in a forum that we as Rete dei Comunisti are working on for next autumn and to which we ask you to contribute. We have lived through these three decades with the incompleteness of a reflection – often more removed than begun – on twentieth-century communism, but as Rete dei Comunisti we have never lost sight of it.

We will not be free as long as imperialism and colonialism exist!

EnglishDi RdC 3 Marzo 2024

[Rete dei Comunisti – Cambiare Rotta – Opposizione Studentesca d’Alternativa] The Rete dei Comunisti and its youth and student organisations Cambiare Rotta and OSA are participating in the mobilisations towards and during the day of 8 March and the general strike called by the Unione Sindacale di Base and other unions outside the concerted order. We will be in the square not only to reaffirm the centrality of the struggle for women’s and gender liberation, but also to continue building opposition to the reactionary government of Giorgia Meloni – outside and against the entire ruling and parliamentary class of this country, from the right to the centre-left – and to reaffirm our support for the Palestinian resistance.

International Bulletin January 2024

EnglishDi RdC 21 Febbraio 2024

[Rete dei Comunisti] The International Bulletin of the Rete dei Comunisti enters its third year of activity. When we decided to give life to this instrument, we were thinking of the need to have a greater connection with communists outside our country, which still remains the main terrain of our action, aiming to reconstruct a discussion, a point of view, a coherent practice among us. This need remains intact, as a requirement of the historical phase that directly engages with the disengagement from the Eurocentric ‘point of view’, laying solid foundations for internationalist work, and certainly this is a path that does not end in the short term.

The Middle East in the Multipolar World and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

EnglishDi RdC 21 Febbraio 2024

[Rete Dei Comunisti ] The western flight from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021 and the gradual ousting of France (and others) from the Sahel were two of the major flashpoints – from a military point of view – of western hegemony in contexts that – except for brief periods – have been pivots of imperialist domination. The events in Afghanistan and Sahel showed the inherent weakness of Western imperialism in maintaining a neo-colonial dynamic by militarily occupying, politically subjugating and economically exploiting those territories. These two episodes were the plastic representation of a change in the world power relations in a context where the path of disengagement from the western supply chains and the concrete possibility of entering into a configuration of relations that sets aside neo-colonial logic is increasingly viable.

Boycotting Israel and the Italian State’s servility to NATO and Zionism

EnglishDi RdC 29 Gennaio 2024

[Comitato Angelo Baracca] One hundred people listening to more than twenty speeches from all regions participated on Sunday 28 January in the second National Assembly to Boycott Israel and Break the Complicity between Italy and the Zionist State. An assembly promoted by the Angelo Baracca Committee, which in the original programmes should have been distinctly operational, with the main objective of relaunching the boycott campaign after the three national mobilisations carried out in two months against Carrefour. But the events of the last few days have broadened the spectrum of the discussion, reserving space and political reflection for the most important events. Representatives of organisations of the Palestinian people and the rest of the world, workers and students, pacifist associations, movements and committees of purpose, radical left parties and individuals in solidarity animated the discussion for three hours of the morning.

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