A-Infos (en) Italy, FDCA, Cantiere #42 - Corruption Rides the Chariot of Power (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Taking stock of a world in total upheaval, such as the one we live in 
today, is far from easy: we are witnessing the collapse of balances 
consolidated at least eighty years ago, since that second global 
massacre that ended with the victory of the Allied troops in the 
imperialist Second World War. ---- At this stage, amidst the clash 
between declining imperialisms seeking a final push and emerging 
imperialisms on the rise, there are more than 8 billion human beings 
living in vastly different conditions, which vary dramatically: where 
chance decides to birth us on this planet can make the difference 
between living a life full of comfort and possibilities or being 
catapulted into a sort of Dante's Circle. A circle from which escape is 
often impossible, unless one undertakes journeys that could lead to 
another circle, where instead of Dante's Luciferian figures, there are 
fully armed Libyan militiamen, thanks in part to the financial 
contribution of the Italian government, through our taxes increasingly 
diverted to "security and armaments" rather than education, healthcare, 
housing, and environmental policies.
The Oxfam NGO's report on the state of global inequality, released 
annually in conjunction with the World Economic Forum in Davos, lays 
bare the terrible inequalities that exist: inequalities that are 
constantly increasing, as evidenced by the numbers compiled by Oxfam.
Our planet's billionaires, approximately 3,000 individuals, managed to 
amass $18.3 trillion in 2025, increasing their wealth by approximately 
81% between 2020 and 2025. This figure allows them to more than 
adequately offset the rising cost of living. Meanwhile, workers in 
Italy, a nation that does not experience dire poverty, must be content 
(and perhaps thankful) for wage increases that reflect a decline in the 
purchasing power of wages.
We are faced with a capitalism that, as Epstein's files reveal, has now 
dropped its mask, revealing all its degeneration and aggressiveness. 
With the end of the "social democratic" compromise between capital and 
labor, which guaranteed at least a partial redistribution of wealth, the 
economic and political structure of capital, now at the end of the line, 
is divesting itself of its democratic and social trappings to escape the 
crisis in which it is entangled. It is tearing up what remains of 
international law; it is stripping the constitutions of various 
countries, which, despite the principles affirmed on paper, are 
incapable of stemming the authoritarian tendencies implemented by 
governments to repress dissent and social conflict, assimilating them to 
a matter of public order, as is happening in our country with the 
security measures enacted by the Meloni government.
It should be a self-evident observation, yet the political forces 
advocating an ever-necessary and urgent overcoming of capitalism are not 
enjoying the support of the masses-quite the opposite! Nationalist, 
racist, and fascist resurgences seem to find a particularly favorable 
breeding ground in our societies, torn and brutalized by a crisis 
spanning more than twenty years. Reformist forces of Catholic and 
Communist origin, who have meticulously worked to quash any aspirations 
for radical social change, are no strangers to this crisis.
Nevertheless, we are not experiencing a period of pacification: the 
narratives of events conveyed by both Italian and international media 
fail to conceal the social anger simmering in the peripheries, both in 
our cities and in the so-called peripheries of the world. The 
demonstrations, often with violent clashes, against repressive forces in 
Argentina, Serbia, Albania, Sudan, and the revolt against the Italian 
Trade Commission (ICE) in the United States, testify to the existence of 
an untamed segment of society unwilling to bow to the abuses of power.
This trend can be reversed. Certainly. It is necessary to reconstruct an 
imaginary, envisioning a post-capitalist society where the products of 
labor are social values for the satisfaction of needs, not individual 
hoarding, where the organization of society is based on free agreements, 
and where power, domination, and authority are nouns that define the 
past. A future that cannot be an eschatological prefiguration tied to a 
supposedly necessarily determined proletarian revolution, perhaps with a 
revival of those models of "real socialism" that history has already 
dismissed, having resolved themselves into forms of state capitalism, 
also based on the exploitation of labor, repression, and dictatorship.
We need to build a path that immediately provides answers and changes 
the living conditions of the less well-off. This includes protecting 
workers' incomes, acquiring rights to free individual life choices from 
the alleged will of church and state to discipline and regiment us, 
defending territories devastated by climate change by clearly 
identifying the capitalist economic model as responsible for this 
change, and countering the mad rush to rearmament and staunchly opposing 
the militaristic indoctrination of new generations.
From this perspective, the anarchist communist movement can play a 
role, valorizing, without idealizing, experiences that concretely 
demonstrate that it is possible to live beyond capitalism: from the 
partial but significant historical revolutionary experiences of the 
international proletariat to the recent ones of Zapatista Chiapas and 
Rojava, currently under siege by the forces of the new Syrian government 
led by former Al-Qaeda commander Al-Jolani, who enjoys the support of 
major world powers.
Around these historical perspectives and immediate interventions, it is 
possible and necessary to concretely define the processes of social and 
class unity capable of creating the critical mass that would finally 
allow us to counter the firepower deployed by defenders of the status 
quo, which today remains completely unchallenged in society.

The challenge, ultimately, is the same as ever: socialism or barbarism.

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