[Redazione Contropiano] On Sunday 3rd July, the Meeting of the Rete dei Comunisti concluded in Rome. A meeting that took place over three days, in which public debates and the discussion of the various working groups on different issues alternated; the first open to all and sundry, the others ‘reserved’ for members of the RdC. All three public debates were streamed on the RdC’s channels, and are available.
[Cambiare Rotta] We wanted to send a message of solidarity and struggle for the Kononovich brothers, two young communist and anti-fascist militants who have been kidnapped and tortured by the Ukrainian government’s security services since March, and today there is no news of them. The war in Ukraine did not begin in February, but in 2014, with the US and EU coup and Kjev’s war on the peoples of the Donbass.
OVERVIEW: Systemic crisis and military crisis [Mauro Casadio – Rete dei Comunisti]; A message of welcome to the delegates of the World Federation of Trade Unions (FSM/WFTU) [Rete dei Comunisti]; WTFU Congress, against war and the war economy [Intervista a Cinzia Della Porta]; Caorso 22 may: abandon illusions, organise the fight! [Cambiare Rotta]; No pasaran! [Cambiare Rotta Bologna]; 2 June: a day of mobilisation against war [Giacomo Marchetti – Rete dei Comunisti]
[Giacomo Marchetti – Rete dei Comunisti] Today is a day of mobilisation against the war. Demonstrations will be held in various cities. In Rome, at 11 o’clock in the morning, at Largo Argentina, a presidium for ‘an anti-militarist and anti-war June 2nd’, with clear words: ‘Stop sending arms, Italy out of NATO, No to the war economy, Yes to the welfare state’. An appointment, the Capitoline one, promoted by the Roman Assembly Against the War.
[Cambiare Rotta Bologna] Yesterday evening in Bologna, hundreds of antifascists marched through the streets of the city in a compact manner, shouting ‘NO PASARAN’, a clear and determined watchword in response to the aggression that took place on 4 May. A popular procession, with great youthful protagonism, brought as far as Porta Maggiore, the site of the violence, clarity and anger, two indispensable elements to begin to organise the force and respond blow by blow to the first signs of a new Nazism.
[Cambiare Rotta – Organizzazione Giovanile Comunista] The mobilisation against the project to relaunch nuclear fission energy through the European ‘green’ taxonomy that we decided to promote on Sunday 22 May at the Caorso power plant was intended to send out a clear signal: in order to save the environment, we must break all ideological and material subalternity with those responsible for the ecological infarction we are already experiencing.
Interview with Cinzia Della Porta, Usb leader, ahead of the World Trade Union Federation Congress to be held in Rome at the weekend. In this climate characterised by war and the war economy, you will host the World Trade Union Federation Congress in Rome in a few days’ time. What expectations do you have of this appointment? War, crisis, pandemic will be the themes of the 18th congress of the World Trade Union Federation, the international workers’ class movement.
[Mauro Casadio] If we are called upon to make an analysis of the current situation, we risk being biased if we do not analyse the conditions that led to the present day. Thus, in order to describe the dynamic that now leads to the ‘formalisation’ of the current contradictions, we must briefly outline the path taken by these in the last decade.
[Unione Sindacale di Base] Five thousand workers took part this afternoon in Rome in the national demonstration called by the Unione Sindacale di Base, at the same time as the strike of the “workers’ variant”, proclaimed in all Italian productive sectors, from industry to logistics, agriculture and ports.
[From the Contropiano interview of 17 April 2022] For the international bulletin of the Rete dei Comunisti, we want to propose an excerpt of the interview with Pierpaolo Leonardi, national coordinator of the union, from a week before the big national strike, and the communiqué of the national confederation at the end of the big demonstration in Rome.