From
Party
of the Committees to Support Resistance – for Communism (CARC); Association
for Proletarian Solidarity (ASP); and
Struggling
Workers Union (SLL);
Let’s defend freedom of
expression, organization and propaganda won by the victory of the Resistance
against Nazi fascism!
With the resistance to
repression, proletarian solidarity and fight against repression, let’s
transform this operation of bourgeoisie’s mercenaries for defending its order
of misery, destruction and war into an instrument for the new birth of the
communist movement!
On 8th February 2012 at the Assize Court of Bologna it opens the trial against 12 comrades who are (or were) part of the (new) Italian Communist Party ((n)PCI), the Party of CARC (P-CARC) and the Proletarian Solidarity Association (ASP).
It is a process overtly political in the sense
that the state sets aside specific crimes charged to the individual, but accuses
them to belong to the (n)PCI and to the organizations that support it and
cooperate with its plan to make Italy
a new socialist country, the organizations we call the “caravan” of the (n)PCI
. It aims to condemn and declare the (n)PCI a criminal organization and
therefore to declare that belonging to it is a crime. The goal is to outlaw the
(n)PCI and all the organizations of its caravan as subversive organizations
according to 270 bis item of the Penal Code. A conviction would lead to the
indictment of any other member and collaborator of the (n)PCI.
The fact that there are no
handholds of “facts and specific crimes” had been certified and motivated with
the nonsuit judgment because “there were no facts” issued on 1st July
2008 by the Judge for Preliminary Hearings Rita Zaccariello of the Court of
Bologna. That judgment temporarily stopped the crusade against the (n)PCI’s
caravan that Public Prosecutor Paolo Giovagnoli was carrying out by more than 8
years, on behalf of Authorities of the Papal Republic.
On 20th January
2011, the Supreme Court, upholding the action of the Public Prosecutor
Giovagnoli and of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bologna, overturned Zaccariello’s
judgment of 2008. The General Attorney Giovanni Salvi advocated the
cancellation of the nonsuit judgment and the go-ahead for restarting the
proceedings. He was the one who with two other magistrates opened two investigations
against the (n)PCI’s caravan with the charge of subversive association. They
were launched on 17th October 1999 with a “big” police operation and
a hundred raids in several cities of Italy and both dismissed one in 2001 and
another in 2003 ... that is to say just when Giovagnoli opened the eighth judiciary
proceeding!
On 21st
September 2011, with a sentence already decided, the Judge for Preliminary
Hearing Alberto Gamberini ordered the beginning of the trial.
In Bologna, the ruling class is establishing a
new kind of special court that operates on the basis of emergency legislation
(although officially this legislation does not yet exist!). It is aimed to
prosecute crimes that are not recognized as such by law and to prosecute
defendants who would not be such if bourgeois Authorities were not fully violating
the Constitution. The court of Bologna is a “prototype”: the bourgeoisie has
concentrated here a special pool of magistrates to prosecute “political crimes”,
magistrates who are real auxiliary of the political police, who get on for
services rendered to the most reactionary and criminal part of the ruling
class.
The significance and
effects of the trial beginning on 8th February go far beyond the
individuals and organizations directly under attack. They are at stake the
freedom of expression, organization and propaganda of Communists. Starting from
here, it will be at stake the freedom of expression, organization and
propaganda of anyone who is or may become center of organization and
mobilization of the masses for “not paying for the crisis of the bosses”. This
is the freedom of expression, organization and propaganda won by the victory of
the Resistance against Nazi fascism and ratified (at least formally) by the
Constitution and still (at least formally) in force. It is not a matter between
us and the judges called upon to prosecute us, the police (regular and
irregular) that haunt us for years and their political instigators. It is an
aspect of the battle going on between the imperialist bourgeoisie and the popular
masses on how to go out from the crisis of capitalism.
The bourgeoisie, the clergy
and other rich do not have a positive solution for the masses to economic,
environmental, cultural and moral decay that their system, the capitalism, has
created. The source of the crisis is in capitalism itself. The ongoing crisis
is a natural product of their system: it comes from the nature of the capitalist
mode of production. Monti in Italy
(and before him Berlusconi and Prodi) and its counterparts in other
imperialists countries are trying to squeeze the popular masses even more,
especially workers, pensioners, civil servants, self-employed workers (farmers,
breeders, transporters , artisans, etc..). They eliminate the rights the popular
masses conquered during the first wave of proletarian revolution. They take away
the prospect of a future of young people, aggravate the discrimination and
oppression of women, persecute immigrants. They are responsible for the
destruction, marginalization and emigration of the population in the oppressed
countries, in the emerging ones and in the former socialist countries, for the
plundering of the planet’s resources, for pollution and environmental
destruction, for the “humanitarian missions” that they multiply in the world.
This is the way by which the international community of the capitalists,
bankers, financiers, speculators and the rich tries to prolong the life of his
system of social relations in spite of the general crisis of capitalism that
now goes for more than thirty ‘years and since 2008 has entered its acute and terminal
phase.
People like Monti, like the
FIAT CEO Marchionne, their cronies and accomplices, however, can prolong and so
aggravate their criminal work only if they manage to sow among the workers,
other laborers and the rest of the people the conviction that there is nothing
to do, that their measures of “tears and blood” are the only way to end the
crisis. They can succeed only if they can disrupt and divide laborers.
To this end, on the one
hand they bring up, subsidize and cover the “fascists of the Third Millennium”
as Casseri, who killed two migrants from Senegal
in Florence in
latest December. On the other they try to “clean up” the factories of the
unions representing the laborers, to isolate the most rebellious and combative
laborers and workers. But above all they need to prevent the communist movement
from reaching a critical mass, to prevent its “contagion” from spreading.
In fact, the measures
against the crisis and the representatives of the international community of
speculators, are creating a widespread resistance not only by the peoples
oppressed by the world imperialist system, but also by the popular masses in
the imperialist countries: the riots in the Arab countries, the movement Occupy
together in the U.S., the indignados in Spain, the revolts in London, the
rebellion of the Greek popular masses, the movement which today developed from
FIAT factory of Pomigliano in our country.
It is a movement still
largely spontaneous. It is stoked up mainly by the opposition to the growing
oppression and exploitation that the bourgeoisie and the clergy exert on the
masses, by the contrast between the hardships and privations of a growing
proportion of the population and the luxury and splendor of a handful of rich,
speculators, parasites, by the aspiration to “another world” that the means,
the knowledge and ability existing in the world today make possible. It is not
yet fertilized and animated by the communist conception of the world and made
irresistible by the leadership of the communist movement.
The specific role of the
Communists in it is to make the aspiration and the need for a new higher social
order, nourished and fostered within the popular masses by the present state of
things, a political objective pursued by a mobilization of the organized popular
masses so wide to have the strength to wipe out the current rotten and
murderess social order, with its institutions, its ideas and the feelings
connected to it. The Communists are distinguished from other opponents to this bad
present because they do not drive to go back to the past (that produced this
bad present!). They instead drive to build the new world: the socialist society
on the march towards Communism, the only way out of the crisis of capitalism
because it puts an end to capitalism itself.
The communist movement that
is being born is the embryo, the standard bearer of the future of dignity,
civilization and progress that the masses can build.
That is why bourgeoisie’s
spokesmen, intellectuals, hacks write reams and lavish words to denigrate Communism
and Communists, the first socialist countries and the first wave of proletarian
revolution: they proclaimed the end of Communism in all possible ways.
That is why bourgeois law-enforcement
agencies selectively repressed Communists and tried to do scorched earth around
them.
That is why television and
parliamentary lounges exhibited in full trim people like Bertinotti, former
leader of the Party of Communist Refoundation, willing to blather about “errors
and horrors of Communism.”
Now it is no longer enough.
The situation is such that it is back on the agenda who runs society and how he
does it:
- Or workers organized with
a system of relations based on public ownership and management of productive machinery
and on a decent and useful work for every adult; a system of which the first
socialist countries have been the dawn;
- Or the bosses with the
elimination of the rights and conquests, the reactionary mobilization and “war
between us and the rest of the world” that FIAT CEO Marchionne already openly declares
and imposes on the workers.
It follows from this also
the elimination of residual progressive aspects of bourgeois democracy. This
includes also the impunity of those “agents ready to do anything” which in our
country entered into action on a large scale at the G8 Summit with the killing
of Carlo Giuliani and the wild beatings in police and Carabinieri barracks in Genoa
in 2001 and few months before in Naples. This includes the operations of
various kinds to thwart every initiative of “democratic supervision” to
discourage those who collect and transmit in Internet (copwatching) photos and
movies of agents responsible for abuses against demonstrators and others. One
of these operations is the process that will take place in Bologna on 31st
January and 21st February, 2012 against two members of CARC Party and
of the Struggling Workers Union and another comrade for “violation of privacy” under
accusation of having created the site “Cop Hunt”
[http://cacciaallosbirro.awardspace.info/] in which there are shown the faces of
law enforcement agents who spy, control, put down in police records, threaten,
blackmail, orchestrate provocation, infiltrate, beat, massacre. Morena Plazzi,
the same Public Prosecutor that conducts this investigation, has recently opened
a case against “the policeman without a face” who on 12th October
2011 clubbed a young girl student (causing the loss of four teeth and permanent
injury to chew) who was demonstrating along with other “indignados” outside the
offices of the Bank of Italy in Bologna.
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