Pasquale Davide Guerra | Party of Committees to Support Resistance―for Communism (CARC Party, Italy)
Comrades,
We bring to this Conference some lessons drawn from the major mobilizations that took place in Italy between September and October 2025 against the genocide of the Palestinian people, the complicity of the Meloni government, and Italy’s participation in imperialist aggressions around the world. Every communist party and every anti-imperialist organization must develop its own line of action based on a concrete analysis of the concrete situation, but the exchange of experiences and the sharing of the lessons that each party and organization draws from them are an essential ingredient in the development of the new revolutionary wave, because the proletarian revolution is an international process and there is one single science that guides it.
In September and October 2025, in Italy, the mobilization in solidarity with the Palestinian people took a leap forward. It became the unifying force and the catalyst for the myriad struggles against the effects of the general crisis of capitalism, against the Third World War into which the crisis has already spilled over and which the International Community of U.S., Zionist, European, and associated imperialist groups is expanding.
The war promoted by the International Community of imperialist groups does not concern only the countries under attack. To wage it externally, the imperialist bourgeoisie must also wage war against the masses in imperialist countries: they impose war economy, increasing military spending, cuts in wages and public services, repression of strikes, criminalizing internationalist solidarity. The imperialist groups attempt to subordinate all economic and political life to their interests.
For this reason, when ports, factories, railroads, schools, and universities come to a standstill in imperialist countries, it is not merely an expression of solidarity that unfolds: it deals a concrete blow to the economic, political, and military machinery that fuels the oppression of peoples and weakens the political, economic, and social base that imperialist groups need to wage their wars.
Last fall general mobilization has become a people’s movement and a wave of insubordination against the Meloni government. This is thanks to the initiative launched by the Autonomous Port Workers’ Committee (CALP), a workers’ organization that has been active for years in the fight against arms trafficking and which, in this arena, has taken on a leading role, serving as a model and an authoritative voice. In fact, CALP issued the call to “shut everything down if the Flotilla is attacked,” and the Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), the country’s main grassroots union, took up and expanded this slogan by calling for a general strike on September 22, 2025. The slogan “let’s bring everything to a standstill” translated into strikes, marches, and coordinated initiatives. days of September and October 2025 yielded favorable results for the popular masses.
1. They involved workers from various sectors, students, retirees, and homemakers; they garnered sympathy and support among shopkeepers, taxi drivers, and other self-employed workers, because when the working class takes the lead in the struggle, it also draws in sectors of the popular masses traditionally considered a voting base and a source of maneuvering power for the right-winged bourgeoisie.
2. They mobilized many unorganized people―people who joined the struggle for the first time or who returned to it after having withdrawn into private life because they were disillusioned by the failures of past battles.
3. They fostered the emergence of new workers’ and popular organizations and pushed existing ones to raise the level of their action, take on new tasks, and coordinate their efforts.
4. They have expanded acts of civil disobedience and methods of struggle―such as blockades of ports, train stations, highways, and ring roads―which were previously the preserve of only a few organizations, demonstrating in practice that when the masses mobilize, no bans, anti-strike laws, or threats can hold them back.
5. They also forced the CGIL, the main pro-regime union, to call a strike alongside the grassroots unions on October 3, which was a day of unified general mobilization. first important lesson is this: when organized workers take the initiative and lead the struggle, they draw in other sectors of the masses and compel even trade union and political organizations―including those most deeply integrated into the imperialist bourgeoisie’s system―to act.
Through the events of September and October 2025, the masses have seen firsthand that, when they organize, they can influence the political course of the country and beyond. The false peace agreement promoted by the Trump administration in the fall of 2025 was also the result of the mobilization that turned Zionist crimes in the Gaza Strip into a political issue, particularly in the imperialist countries. The ruling classes had to take action to contain the mobilization and regain control of the situation. The organization and mobilization of workers and the rest of the masses in the imperialist countries thus constitute a front in the struggle against the global imperialist system.
The imperialist bourgeoisie fears that the masses will move from protesting individual crimes to fighting the political system that produces them, and from solidarity with oppressed peoples to the struggle to wrest power from imperialist groups in their own countries. This transition does not occur spontaneously. It requires the conscious intervention of communists to multiply, strengthen, and coordinate workers’ and popular organizations in capitalist and public enterprises, in local communities, and on specific issues-and to guide them toward taking the reins of the country.
Workers’ and popular organizations are the modern-day equivalent of the soviets in Russia. In Italy, we of the P.CARC―and, in various forms, the (new) Italian Communist Party in the underground―support trade union and political struggles for specific demands, as well as participation in elections and in the struggles within elected assemblies regarding the measures taken by the authorities. But in the struggles of the popular masses, we aim primarily to promote the formation of workers’ and popular organizations, and we guide them to coordinate and challenge the measures of the bourgeois authorities to the point of making it impossible for the bourgeoisie to govern the country and forcing it to accept the formation of a government composed of people who enjoy the confidence of the workers’ and popular organizations―what we call the Popular Bloc Government (PBG).
Every strike, blockade, occupation, and form of spontaneous resistance by the masses must become a school of communism―a training ground where the masses learn to organize themselves, coordinate their efforts, identify enemies and allies, gauge their own strength, and exercise leadership functions. A training ground where they learn not only to defend themselves against the effects of war and crisis, but to go on the offensive: they learn to conceive of themselves and act as society’s new ruling class, as new public authorities that determine and implement the measures necessary for the masses.
“Bringing everything to a standstill” is necessary, but it is not enough. We must halt the course imposed by the international community of imperialist groups―the U.S., NATO, the EU, and the Zionists―to pave the way for a new course of events. With the line of the PBG, we of the Caravan of the (new)ICP aim for two objectives: 1. the rebirth of the communist movement, and 2. the rallying of the working class―and, in its wake, the other classes of the masses-around the communist party. We pursue these two objectives based on the current conditions: the communist party still has little support and influence among the working class, while the bourgeois left―comprising all sincere but non-communist opponents of Italian imperialist groups―enjoys greater support and influence among the popular masses than we do. With the PBG line, we aim to create a situation in which sincere but non-communist opponents govern the country on behalf of the popular masses organized against the bourgeois parties and, more broadly, against the EU, the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and NATO―the institutions of the international community of U.S., Zionist, and European imperialists. formation of the PBG is a stage in the socialist revolution, in the Protracted Revolutionary People’s War against the imperialist bourgeoisie, which will culminate in the establishment of socialism.
The mobilizations of 2025 revealed both a possibility and a limitation. They demonstrated that the masses can bring the country to a standstill and compel even large organizations to mobilize. The limitation was the failure to fully transform this force into a struggle to oust the Meloni government and impose a regime change in favor of the masses.
The mobilizations of 2025 therefore confirm that we communists must build on the resistance that already exists, organizing, coordinating, and elevating it, transforming every struggle into a step toward the power of the masses.
The rebirth of the communist movement in the imperialist countries is not only necessary but possible. It advances to the extent that communists transform every mobilization into a school of organization, of struggle for power, of government by the masses-into a school of communism.
Advancing the revolution in imperialist countries is also the greatest contribution we can make to the struggle of the oppressed peoples.
Forward in the struggle against the global imperialist system! Long live internationalist solidarity!
Long live the struggle of the masses and the oppressed peoples of the whole world!