Article by Luis Carapinha, member of the International Department
The system’s politicians and theologists guarantee that the worst of the crisis is over. In the limit, some assure that, after all, the evil that ravages the world is summarized to a psychological problem. Those positive ideas are required to restore the necessary trust in the market – in capitalism everlasting – and drive away the dark clouds in the horizon … Specially after the colossal State financial resources injection, which currently, dangerously rises the capitalist economies’ public debt.
In reality, within the dominant class throngs, restlessness is high. Depression is expected to be long and the effective economic recuperation perspectives to be very gloomy. The current capitalist relations system’s survival claims for a greater centralization and concentration and, above all, for an intensification of the working classes exploitation and the peoples prey levels. A " new paradigm", which namely proceeds with the structural unemployment increase and the widening of work precariousness, unto which, bringing upon the preventive criminalization policy of the class struggle against injustice and social inequalities or the new "witch hunting " and the related attempts of the forbidding of class struggle and communist ideals.
It is within this framework that the system’s deep trends become visible in the surface and with them, a pre-historic stinking fauna . Naturally, just as a life insurance, one endeavours to empty the growing social discontent, capitalizing all type of fascist drifts which, quietly or sensationally and by the force of the bayonet, mark out the land ,across the world.
Let’s see Italy’s case. It is not only about the state of decay, reached by the Italian political class and the iniquity pasture, belched forth from its bowels. The Berlusconi phenomenon is an eloquent expression of the supreme level of the existent promiscuity, in the first place, between the economic and political power. Italy of the EU and the G-8 represent an experiment polygon of the right-wing power and the racist, xenophobe and fascist forces panoply. The very same forces which lay hand of the Il Duce’s cult and at currently approve "combat" laws towards immigration – and, as its well known, of which the great capital depends on to keep up the labour exploitation profit standard rules – which constitute an attempt to mankind’s dignity and rights.
The same power forces old arch which, hand-in-hand with the CIA and imperialism, actively conspired in the past, against the pillars of the so-called state of law – to the point of kidnapping and assassinating a prime-minister, in order to prevent the PCI’s participation in a coalition government together with the Christian- Democracy .
Precisely, this very week, Toto Riina’s confessions were revealed, considered the mafia leader of the leaders and the main convicted for judges Falcone and Borsellino assassinations, in 1992, which point out towards the Casa Nostra holy-alliance, the Milan industrialists and the secret intelligence in the genesis and carrying-out of that crime (in El País, 19.07.09).
Talking of Italy, just as one could talk about the Honduras coup, the new USA bases in Colombia, the Israel right-wing in the government, the Gaza suffering and the Zionist perpetuation occupation manoeuvres, in Palestine. Or the endless list of outrages still remembered from the Bush campaigns and the state terrorism practices, carried out by imperialism, such as in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and which the supporting Obama phenomena campaign tries to immaculate – although the Washington Post has said its popularity index, within the USA has decreased 50%. Or the recent OSCE parliamentary assembly motion, towards History’s complete perversion.
Examples are plentiful. One must be watchful. With the assurance that, against the dominant ideology assault weapons, together with the communists’ and other revolutionary forces’ contribution, the workers’ and the peoples’ struggle will finally lay down a new force correlation and world alternative.
