A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI, #205 - Law and Force (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Published on March 1, 2026 by Ucadi in Issue 205 - February 2026, 
Newsletter, Year 2026 and tagged wages, government, repression, 
emigration, Meloni. ---- While the international political situation 
deteriorates further, driven by the redefinition of spheres of influence 
between different areas of the planet and the resurgence of the imperial 
dream of an ever-increasing number of international actors, Prime 
Minister Meloni is juggling various summits between the managers of a 
perennial conflict that increasingly eludes the rules of international 
law and denies that very law, which for 80 years had pretended to 
guarantee a life of relations between different state entities, with 
rules regularly violated when necessary by the ruling classes in the 
states wielding force. With Donald Trump's rise to power, they have 
decided to act to protect their interests and support their hegemonic 
projects and implement a redistribution of spheres of control over 
territories.
Navigating this growing conflict of interests has proven to be a source 
of stability for Meloni and her government, compared to the nonexistent 
positions of the reformist left. The left, astonished by the complexity 
of the situation, already supports criminals and hypocrites who 
intervene in international disputes. It embraces the interests of the US 
Democrats and prostitutes itself ideologically and strategically to 
their political project, with the ambition of being part of a decadent, 
media-narcissistic, and Satanist power structure, as the Epstein case 
demonstrates, under the illusion of gathering at least the crumbs of 
capitalist accumulation and the perpetuation of global exploitation.
The emergence of new players on the international scene (such as the 
BRICS and, why not, even the neo-imperial states) has had the merit, if 
nothing else, of forcing all those in power to drop their masks and act 
without hypocrisy, coming out in the open and showing their unethical 
scoundrel faces, concerned only with living their lives intensely and 
hedonistically, accumulating wealth, conquering and holding power, 
exercising it beyond and above the limits defined by law and ethics, 
violating principles that, however hypocritical in their manifestation, 
guaranteed an apparent world order, which has been promptly and 
occasionally violated.
It was above all the international situation that allowed Meloni to 
preside over a long-term government that, it must be acknowledged, is 
implementing much of her program of restructuring class relations and 
transforming social sentiment.
The fascists in government are aware that by pursuing a strategy of 
distancing the entire population from political participation, the 
number of voters is reduced; the government system supports a certain 
"physiological" quota of opponents, and allows a minority of voters to 
assume leadership of the country. They successfully aim to create a 
social bloc that once would have been defined as "corporate" to support 
their government action in exchange for participation, albeit limited, 
in the appropriative division of the country's wealth.
By manipulating public opinion through the astute use of the most subtle 
yet effective tools of mass communication, the Meloni government has 
implemented a plan for social reform. It faces a reformist left, 
shattered in its values and capabilities, discredited for its inability 
to conceive a unified political project on a social level, for having 
embraced the values, ideologies, and goals of its class adversary, 
convinced of the demise of its core class and incapable of redefining 
it. Proof of this is the left's complete detachment from any reference 
to the problems of the exploited and marginalized. This is demonstrated 
by the fact that slogans such as increased wages, revitalization of 
industrial and agricultural production, protection and expansion of the 
national health service, funding of schools and their targeting of 
social needs, the right to housing, and protection of the land have 
become empty buzzwords, slogans that are briefly revived and waved 
around and then abandoned. Thus, the government was able to toughen all 
criminal legislation through a systematic dismantling of freedoms, 
starting with the freedom to express one's thoughts and dissent, and 
even simply to disagree with the government's positions. Using the 
Trojan horse of immigration to repress, the government has introduced 
into our legal system rules that increasingly restrict the right to 
express social dissent and discontent with the growing poverty of an 
ever-larger portion of the population. It has not only repressed 
recreational gatherings (raves) to sanction the questionable behavior of 
some, but has also proceeded against environmentalism by repressing 
Gandhian and non-violent dissent, taking advantage of this to introduce 
repressive rules on more general active dissent, such as the occupation 
of streets with marches in defense of jobs, etc. of the industrial 
apparatus, to the progressive impoverishment of the weakest social 
classes, which was followed by the generalization of repressive 
activity, extending it to forms of youth dissent and places of social 
aggregation such as social centers, pushing those who frequent and 
support them to criminalize their behavior in order to more easily 
implement repression with the consensus of that segment of public 
opinion that supports or does not notice the progressive erosion of 
freedom through the so-called security measures that have had no other 
effect than to restrict the space for dissent and criminalize every 
minimal act of deviation, encouraging the spread of a seemingly more 
widespread cowardice.
Abhorring social dissent, we moved into a phase of prevention, drawing 
on the historical experience of the right, dusting off the measures 
adopted by fascism during visits by the Duce or the hierarchs, when the 
police and the regime arrested potential protesters the day before, all 
of whom were previously registered (see the introduction of 12-hour 
preventive detention during demonstrations). By using the growing need 
for material goods, essential to life, as both a tool and a stimulus, 
fueling the growth of starvation wages, miserable working conditions, 
precarious labor relations, and slave-like exploitation, constructing a 
hierarchy of competing classes and estates, modeling itself on the 
classification that the Spanish Empire employed for the populations of 
its American colonies, where it created a hierarchy of personal rights, 
placing the idalgo (provided he was born in Spain) at the top and the 
soulless Indians at the bottom, the Meloni government aims to destroy 
that essential part of the constitutional guarantees anchored in the 
right to equality in freedom.
It must be recognized that the government's strategy of dismantling the 
opposition, any opposition-both reformist and social-has been effective 
and is achieving many of its objectives. Proof of this is that the 
reformist left lacks a program of its own; in other words, it follows 
suit, it doesn't know what to do, it thrives on rhetorical expedients, 
on demands for stopgap measures, clumsily trying to limit the damage, 
which now, with the referendum on justice, is beginning to lay siege to 
and dismantle the Constitution.
It is once again no coincidence that this attack on post-war 
constitutions, especially those of anti-fascist orientation, and 
certainly among these the Italian one, constitutes the characteristic 
feature of the actions of the Right-wing International, which 
effectively operates under the banner of the MAGA movement but which is 
articulated in many branches, many components such as the 
ultra-liberalism of Miley, the neo-Francoism of Vox Spain, the 
neo-Nazism of Allianz für Deutschland, the militarist neo-fascism of 
Ukraine, to name just a few of the organizational embodiments of this 
increasingly hegemonic political component.
It was not only the war in Ukraine that polluted the wells, but also the 
reintroduction through it of the principle that war is a legitimate 
instrument, putting forward the defense of the aggressor nation as a 
principle to be defended, without analyzing previous events and tracing 
the origins of the crises, as well as the reasons for the conflict, 
ideologizing it to ennoble it, but at the same time losing the sense of 
reality, of the objective analysis of the facts, of the causes and 
interests at stake, of the objective analysis of the forces deployed, 
with the result of reaching the conclusion that a nuclear power equipped 
with at least 6,000 atomic warheads can be defeated by an army, however 
combative and motivated, that exercises the noble art of destroying 
resources to rebuild on the battlefield, among the dead and the blood, 
the suffering of the populations, the capitalist accumulation and allow 
a band of bloodthirsty and corrupt oligarchs to enrich themselves with 
the proceeds of war that notoriously ennoble and fuel every theft, every 
oppression by denying the interests and needs of people. A Necessary 
Response

The situation has deteriorated to the point that a response is 
increasingly necessary, and it must be found starting from every small 
crevice, from every small struggle, however peripheral, from every 
resistance to oppression, however marginal it may seem to the unfolding 
of the central power of states.
A halt or at least a reduction in wars is certainly a precursor to these 
struggles, because without the massacre of peoples on the battlefields, 
their capacity to fight, their energies, are distorted by fighting their 
true enemy: the exploitation of labor by capital. The minds of the 
people are poisoned by nationalism, distorted by the defense of class 
interests; the anger resulting from exploitation is perverted and used 
against other proletarians, as an antidote, as an inhaled narcotic to 
distance the individual from reality and make him act in an alien world 
in which all his resources and strength are exhausted.
In the shadow of war, profits grow, bosses grow fat, the narcissistic 
hedonism of the rich is fueled, the basest instincts and most trivial 
desires manifest themselves with the aim of finding a fulfillment that 
buffers the alienation that arises from the awareness of being used, 
exploited, violated, sold, and of being powerless to do anything to end 
this situation.
A small but highly effective step is to address the referendum deadline 
and seize the opportunity to say no, in defense of constitutional values 
and the separation of powers, the foundation of the rule of law. This is 
the trench behind which we stand to oppose this project that destroys 
the coexistence of our rights and our freedom, fully aware that we have 
only taken the first step and that inequalities remain, poverty and 
exploitation are expanding, regenerating, corroding the exploited's 
capacity for struggle and resistance. Therefore, the next step is to 
begin removing the causes and instruments of domination and power 
through which the aspiration for equality of peoples is pursued and 
implemented.

The Editorial Staff

https://www.ucadi.org/2026/03/01/il-diritto-e-la-forza/
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