A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #16-26 - Fuel for War. Capital's Red Line: Blood, Oil, and Italian Complicity (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

There's an invisible line crossing the Mediterranean, but it's not found 
in official press releases or in the reports of bourgeois newspapers 
that tell you about white-elite democracy. It's a red line drawn with 
blood and crude oil, a web of global energy flows connecting distant oil 
fields, local refineries, and extermination scenarios. It's the 
logistical structure of capital that feeds its insatiable hunger for 
power through ecocides and genocides, crushing everything in its path 
toward humanity's abyss.

On April 25th, I met in Sicily with Leandro Lanfredi, a petrochemical 
worker and director of the Sindipetro-RJ union and the FNP in Rio de 
Janeiro, ready to embark for Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla, who 
was soon kidnapped in Crete by the state of Israel. He gave me data from 
the Palestinian Institute for Climate Strategy, a major activist 
research effort that pierces the veil of invisibility. These data show 
us that Italy is not a neutral observer, but a vital hub in the 
circulation of fossil fuels for the Israeli energy system. These 
investigations reveal the role of Vitol (the giant in the shadows), the 
largest independent oil trader in the world. With revenues of $343 
billion in 2025 and handling 8 million barrels per day, Vitol controls a 
market share greater than the combined needs of France, Germany, Italy, 
Spain, and the United Kingdom. It is not a middleman; it is a global 
infrastructure of domination. Since 2020, this octopus has shipped 
approximately 21 million barrels (2,890 kilotons) to Israel's vital 
arteries, such as the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company and the Bazan 
refinery.

In 2026, as geopolitical tensions curtail supply, Vitol and its 400 
partners, protected by an opaque structure between Luxembourg and 
Switzerland with ridiculous 14% taxes, aren't suffering the crisis, but 
managing it. They organize flows so that profit never stops, not even in 
the face of battered bodies.

In this context, Italy is an active participant in a supply chain that 
transforms, distributes, and re-exports energy. There is no linear proof 
linking every single shipment to military use, but there is a structural 
fact: Italy's full integration into a system that also fuels conflicts. 
The data show an integrated global energy system, players like Vitol 
with enormous power, and an Italy perfectly integrated into this 
network. Official statements speak of peace, but material flows tell a 
different story.

Between June and July 2025, tens of thousands of tons of petroleum 
products passed through our ports. Between 2022 and 2026, approximately 
13 million barrels of Brazilian crude oil were extracted and sold to 
Israel via Vitol, circumventing worker boycotts. In February 2026, Vitol 
made the first confirmed shipment of 200,000 barrels of Venezuelan crude 
oil to Israel, transiting through the Saras refinery in Sardinia, 
despite union protests.

The government led by Giorgia "Black Shirt" Meloni reiterates its clear 
political support for the massacre, with Benito La Russa embodying a 
rigid Atlanticism that never questions capital's infrastructure. But 
stopping at the right would be a naive mistake. The Democratic Party, 
during its years in government, has ensured the same continuity: the 
names of the "Black Shirts" change, but Italy's role as a cog in the war 
machine remains unchanged.

But this colonial supremacy and impunity isn't unique to today; it has 
distant origins and has never stopped; it has simply changed skin. While 
white Europe celebrated the end of Nazi-fascism in May 1945, the same 
"liberating" powers continued to slaughter lives in Algeria, Eritrea, 
and Senegal. On May 8, 1945, while celebrations were taking place in 
Paris, the French army massacred thousands of civilians demanding 
independence in Sétif and Guelma. We must remember that the true 
anti-fascist resistance to the invader began in 1935 in Ethiopia, 
against the fascist military aggression that used poison gas against a 
free people. That guerrilla warfare, which continued even after the 
proclamation of the empire, teaches us that there is no difference 
between Mussolini's colonialism and the extractive system that today 
starves Abya Yala to fuel the bombers on Gaza.

Today, the talk shows of the "media sludge" host puppets of power free 
to mock the Global Sumud Flotilla, reducing an international solidarity 
effort to a mere accounting. In one of his recent shows, Benito La Russa 
asked, referring to the Flotilla: "How many children have you saved?" 
However, they remain silent about the responsibilities of those who 
provide the fuel, weapons, and international protection to kill these 
children.

Of course, the flotillas spent $9 million without managing to deliver a 
single drug, and as an anarchist, I would have liked to see more direct 
and less hierarchical actions than those of the NGOs. But their function 
is different: to break the isolation and make visible what democratic 
states want to hide in the fog of propaganda and international law, 
which is valid "up to a certain point."

In Italian ports, this contradiction has already exploded. Strikes and 
blockades by logistics workers-just like those led by comrades like 
Lanfredi in Brazil-have demonstrated that the "invisible line" is real, 
passing under cranes and in containers. A state cannot claim to be 
extraneous to genocide if it actively participates in the networks that 
make it possible. Until this fracture is addressed by direct action by 
the people, the bloodline will continue to flow. Silent, efficient, 
indifferent.

Gabriel Cammarata

https://umanitanova.org/carburante-per-la-guerra-la-linea-rossa-del-capitale-sangue-petrolio-e-complicita-italiana/
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