Italy

Italy’s “Government of Change”: History as Farce

Submitted by Internationalis... on Oct 14 2018 12:50

The new populist “government of change” made up of the anti-European Five Star Movement and the racist Lega (The League, formerly the Lega Nord or Northern League) has begun to adopt some of the same empty rhetoric of the past. Their target is not much different from the fascist anti-semitism of the past. Whilst their main guns are today trained at the EU they also point to the nefarious activities of “financiers like Soros”. George Soros is of course the target of the anti-semitic campaign of Orbans in Hungary. According to these “populists” the problem is not capitalism but only some aspects of it.

Italy: Is Salvini’s League a Nazi Party?

Submitted by Internationalis... on Aug 15 2018 17:21

Despite only getting 17% of the votes compared to about 30% for their coalition partners in the Five Star Movement, Matteo Salvini leader of La Lega (The League) has seized the opportunity as deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior to become the most dominant force in the new coalition of “populist parties”. The successive speeches about registering Roma (reminiscent of what happened to Italian Jews in 1938 as preparation for their annihilation in the Holocaust) may have caused outrage, but behind it has come the racist attacks in the street.

Italian Elections: there’s nothing more depressing in a desert of ideas and perspectives

Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 2 2018 11:47

Given the current programmatic poverty of the bourgeoisie, not voting is a duty. However, today, that isn’t enough.

Autonomism – “Many Flowers Little Fruit”

Submitted by Internationalis... on Feb 28 2018 15:21

A response to the comments and criticisms of our article “Autonomism – Cutting the Ground from under Marxism”.

Solidarity with the GDN Logistics workers

Submitted by Internationalis... on Feb 11 2018 11:17

In the early afternoon of Tuesday, January 30, the police charged and drove a group of workers away from the gates of GDN Logistics of San Cipriano Po (Pavia). They were demonstrating in front of the company's gates to ask for an end to dismissals and suspensions (therefore for reinstatement) carried out by the company against some of their colleagues for the simple fact they were "registered with Sicobas". The strike began in the early morning, and the police charge took place after more than 10 hours of blockade in which protesting workers prevented the entry of trucks to the warehouse units.

Bordiga: Early political views

Submitted by jondwhite on Mar 21 2017 10:31

Three part series on the pre-1917 political views of this Italian thinker who later became the first leader of the Italian Communist Party and then a Left Communist critic of the state capitalist regime in Russia (from Socialist Standard, January, March and February 2017)