Communist Youth Federation (Italy)
Dear comrades and delegates,
I bring you greetings from the Federation of the Communist Youth (Italy).
Already in 1957, with the Moscow Declaration, imperialism, particularly American imperialism, was identified as the primary threat to peace, the greatest obstacle to the liberation of peoples and to the construction of socialism.
From the end of the Second World War to today, American imperialism has changed many of its characteristics. The United States accounted for 50% of the world economy, held 70% of the planet’s gold reserves, and was the only major capitalist state not devastated by the conflict. It was a major military power and the world’s only nuclear power.
Today, US supremacy has been challenged or lost in all these areas.
The response to the imperialist threat to world peace, to the liberation of peoples, and to the construction of socialism, as taught by the Moscow Declarations of 1957 and 1960, is the strengthening of the forces of peace, the forces of anti-imperialism. Negotiations with imperialist forces are their result, not their precondition.
We welcome the opportunity offered by the World Anti-Imperialist Platform. Fraternal dialogue between the world’s anti-imperialist forces can only advance our understanding of the international cause, of the convergences and differences between fraternal forces.
Just as the Party must support the Communist Youth in avoiding dangerous dogmatic tendencies without slowing its natural momentum, so too must this apply in the relationship between the Communist Youth and young people.
Italian youth today are deeply disillusioned. The lack of opportunities and prospects, pandemic management, wars caused by US imperialism, genocidal Zionism, and the still too little understood Epstein case. There is not a single young person today who does not harbor deep resentment toward the current state of affairs.
However, this disillusionment is a polarizing force among youth, which tends to see the world in black and white. Political forces today increasingly construct a line of fracture based on cultural, identity, and aesthetic issues. The Communist Youth has a huge opportunity. By correctly drawing the line along anti-imperialism, it can become a unifying force along identity, cultural, and aesthetic lines.
Left and right are increasingly less useful categories. They are becoming obstacles on our path. New lines of demarcation must be constructed, detached from cultural and aesthetic identity battles, and instead tied to opposition to transnational financial capital, the Epstein class, and opposition to NATO and US imperialism. The Communist Youth can become the actor that brings youth consciousness to a new stage of development.
The unipolar world of international financial monopoly and the US military apparatus is facing a serious crisis.
The heroic resistance of the Islamic Republic of Iran against aggression has not only made the Israeli American regime change dreams fail. It has taken control of the Strait of Hormuz, and amputated the system of military bases in the region, two pillars of US global dominance.
It is true that it is in this transitional phase from one world to another that monsters arise. But spaces of opportunity also emerge for communists, and it will be our duty to promptly occupy them.
We must relentlessly denounce US imperialist aggressions, call for the closure of NATO military bases and the withdrawal from NATO itself. We must make increasingly unsustainable the maintenance of the United States’ position of global dominance.
