Tag: Saturday 24 H17:00

summary

Against war, rearmament, and militarization, it is urgent to multiply and organize resistance. Defend social resources, halt the war economy, and build an alternative based on a new international law, disarmament, ecology, and grassroots diplomacy

—————————————————

dESCRIption

Caught between Trump and Putin, Europe has chosen war. “Peace is over,” the EU leadership tells us. “If you want peace, prepare for war” has become the mantra of European institutions.

And they are indeed leading us into war. With a massive rearmament plan that drains resources from social and environmental expenses. With the war-driven conversion of the economy, which is generating enormous profits for corporations while destroying work and nature. With the militarization of territories, infrastructure, knowledge, education, research, schools, and universities. With the return of mandatory military service. With the resurgence of patriotism demanding conformity and obedience, censorship, the hunt for internal enemies, and the use of information as a tool of war propaganda. They want to convince us that to perish or to take up weapons are the only possible choices.

But we know that an alternative exists: it is called enforcement of international law, common and unarmed security, diplomacy and disarmament, ecological and social conversion, and grassroots diplomacy. We feel the urgency to multiply and organize resistance to war, rearmament, militarization, and genocide everywhere: in schools and universities, in territories and communities, in workplaces. To network locally, nationally, across Europe, and globally. To contaminate and innovate thoughts, visions, and forms of struggle, weaving together pacifist, anti-colonial, ecological, feminist, and anti-system cultures. To converge. To jam the machinery of war through popular, widespread participation and action.

The Global Sumud Flotilla has shown us that it is possible, that we can break free from the cage of powerless frustration and assert the strength of the peoples. And it is up to each and every one of us, wherever we are, to feel the responsibility to act and build a movement against war worthy of the danger we face.

summary

Security Legislative Decree (DL security), campaigns for the right to protest, new authoritarian rules, and attacks on cities that refuse to align with the Meloni government: the repressive agenda designed through the Security Decree is becoming reality, while liberal democracy is under structural pressure. By asserting rights, freedoms, and self-protection, it is time to create new paths together

—————————————————

dESCRIption

An open discussion on the emerging forms of authoritarianism: from the Security Legislative Decree to restrictions on the right to protest, from preventive arrests and the delegitimization of the solidarity movement for Palestine to acts of censorship by the Meloni government at RAI (Italian radiotelevision) and attacks on freedom of information.

 But these measures, and the Security Legislative Decree itself, which has gone from an ideological manifesto of the government to reality, are only one piece of the authoritarian project: adding to them there are the Rave Decree, the Caivano Decree, the implementation of Red Zones, the equalization of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, interference in schools and universities, and the Nordio reform that undermines judicial independence.

 And there is more, what can be described as a quantum leap in authoritarian distortion: the eviction of social centers and attacks on cities that refuse to align with the Meloni government’s vision of society, carried out through real interventions in municipal administrations. We have seen this in Milan with Leoncavallo, in Bologna during the basketball game with Maccabi Tel Aviv, in Turin against Askatasuna, and again in Rome against SpinTime.

 It is precisely where conditions are created for free and conflictual cooperation that opposition and alternatives to global right-wing forces concentrate, and where experiments in grassroots participation and direct democracy take place; it is here, consequently, that the national government acts decisively to expand its power at all costs. This is therefore the moment to reflect on the political and material consequences of this turn, and on the prospects of moving beyond liberal democracy in the contemporary crisis.

It has become urgent to build convergences around new forms of resistance and to strengthen broad networks of self-protection, including lawyers, associations, legal experts, journalists, reporters, and media activists in direct connection with social movements and all those who fight against authoritarianism and for new forms of direct democracy.

summary

Social crisis, stagnant wages, declining welfare. Class struggle returns to the center stage in cities as new political hubs. Wages, work, housing, income, and self-government are all part of the same struggle

—————————————————

dESCRIption

The country’s economic and social condition is disastrous: wages are frozen, pensions are derisory, purchasing power is devoured by the cost-of-living crisis, poverty is endemic.  Work itself is constantly called into question by the warmongering short-sightedness of politics and by the profit hunger of large multinationals. Short-time work schemes are soaring, precarity has become permanent. Finding housing is an unequal struggle against real estate rent and speculation. Access to healthcare and public services, increasingly defunded, is an endless maze.

 Meanwhile, the government evicts, clears, and represses with hammer blows, tear gas, and water cannons. Not only out of ideology, but because the shrinking of democratic spaces and the authoritarian turn are today necessary for the new global kings of oligarchic capitalism to launch an attack on the material conditions of living labor and social cooperation. Despite Meloni and other right-wing governments’ propaganda, the social reality clearly emerges in cities and territories through everyday struggles for wages, welfare, housing, and the defense of jobs against industrial desertification.

The time has come to turn this truth into a base for organizing at the level of the challenge and breaking out of the crisis. Class struggle for direct wages and for indirect wages must advance together, while practices of mutualism and urban welfare platforms can prefigure alternatives to extractive platforms, wrenching the wealth we produce from the hands of the rich.

In this sense, cities become new hubs of political innovation where mobilizations and struggles converge with forms of self-government and mutualism, as well as administrative experiments aimed at winning wages, defeating real-estate rent, and promoting an ecological transition alternative to the war-driven and fossil-based one.

It is precisely for this reason that cities—and what makes them vital, social spaces and urban movements, trade-union and associative realities—are under attack by power, in an attempt to erode their territorial rootedness and the transformative potential of these political, solidaristic struggles.

Facing the war against living labor, against direct and indirect wages, we respond by exercising our right to resistance in order to strengthen class struggle, through confederated networks and platforms as a constituent practice to affirm the right to decent work, income, welfare, and rights on a European scale.