Sandro Scardigli | Italian Communist Party
Imperialism defines as “terrorists” those national and social liberation movements and states that seek to defend their independence from the dictates of the US and their closest allies.
At the same time, countries like the USA and Israel increasingly resort to true terrorism: understood as threats and armed aggression against peoples and governments, a policy of planned genocide, and the selective assassination of politicians, activists, journalists, intellectuals, and even healthcare personnel.
This is what we see perpetrated daily against the Palestinian people, not only in Gaza with the aim of their extermination, but also in the West Bank, where Zionist settlers, driven by a religious fanaticism similar to that of the Taliban or other fundamentalist Islamic terrorist groups, make life increasingly unsustainable for Palestinians (with the overt support of the Israeli security forces). And the far-right government in Tel Aviv builds more and more settlements with the aim of making the creation of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state impossible.
The realization of the Greater Israel project, which encompasses all of Palestine, southern Lebanon, and part of Syria, is the declared objective not only of the most fascist ministers, but of the Israeli government as a whole, which believes that this is the opportune moment for a generalized regional war to achieve it.
The Israeli attack, the detention of dozens of vessels and hundreds of activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Crete, and the brutal and humiliating treatment perpetrated by Israeli security forces against the members of the flotilla—who were subjected to humiliation, torture, and even sexual violence—constitute a new and more serious act of piracy.
Once again, it has been demonstrated that Israel can blatantly violate international law without suffering any consequences.
We call on the Italian government and other governments to adopt all possible measures not only to protect the members of the Flotilla, but also to condemn Israel in all international forums, starting with the European Union.
We firmly reaffirm the need to break all ties, not only military but also economic, technical, and scientific, with the State of Israel, to recognize the State of Palestine, and to restore the role of the UN through the implementation of all its resolutions to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and establish an independent Palestinian state.
Furthermore, the decisions of the International Criminal Court must be respected, including the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Italian Communist Party strongly condemns the imperialist aggression conducted by the USA and Israel against Iran, which constitutes a serious violation of international law.
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, in their delusion of omnipotence, risk unleashing a spiral that, combined with the other war fronts and those that might arise, could lead to a world war and a nuclear catastrophe.
The formal indictment against Comrade Raúl Castro by the US Department of Justice represents a further step toward direct US military aggression against Cuba.
The pretext for this act, for which the USA has neither legitimacy nor jurisdiction, is the downing of two aircraft belonging to a Cuban-American terrorist organization in 1996 within Cuban airspace, in full compliance with international conventions and the principle of sovereignty. This occurred after numerous similar provocations by the terrorist organization and after Cuba had repeatedly warned US authorities that the flights were departing from their territory, without receiving any response.
The truth is that the Republic of Cuba and its people have the right to defend their country and the Revolution from any external military aggression.
The succession of accusations and provocations by Donald Trump and Marco Rubio is accompanied by an increasingly severe economic blockade, directed against operators and states seeking to trade and export oil to Cuba with economic retaliation and trade tariffs.
The Italian Communist Party reiterates and emphasizes its deep esteem and admiration for Comrade Raúl Castro Ruz, a pillar of the struggle against Fulgencio Batista, of the guerrilla warfare that led to the revolutionary triumph of January 1, 1959, of the construction of socialism in Cuba, and of its defense against imperialism.
Those who care about the right of peoples to freely determine their own destiny must understand that the battle the people and the revolutionary government of Cuba are fighting to reaffirm the right to life and defend the Revolution also concerns all other peoples, regardless of their political ideology: the USA wants to erase the international law established by the defeat of Nazism and introduce a new “right”—namely, the right of the USA to appropriate the resources of every nation and subjugate their policies.
We hope for a peace agreement that puts an end to any attempt to include Ukraine in NATO.
The war, which began in 2014 with the massacre perpetrated by the Banderite fascists in the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, is in reality a conflict unleashed and guided by NATO and the USA.
The Italian Communist Party supports the creation of a democratic and anti-fascist Europe, stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals.
The states neighboring Russia, starting with Ukraine, should denuclearize and become neutral, thereby forming a bridge between Russia and Europe.
It is fundamental to eradicate fascism and “Banderism” in these countries, as well as any form of authoritarian and chauvinistic nationalism.
