NYC’s Zohran Mamdani. Good intentions are not enough

Italian version Polls project that Zohran Mamdani will be elected mayor of New York City (NYC) on November 4, 2025, with a plurality but not a majority of the popular vote. His website summarizes the theme of his campaign: “Zohran Mamdani is running for Mayor to lower the cost of living for working class New Yorkers.” His platform is a set of municipal reforms to do this, including freezing the rent on rent-stabilized apartments, fare-free buses, and no-cost childcare, paid for...

4 Novembre 2025 - Peter Solenberger

On the pro-Palestine movement in Italy

Considerations after the large September and October demonstrations

Italian version The dynamics of September 22 to October 4 mark a new development in the Italian political scene. An overall leap in mass mobilization that has no parallel in the past two decades. It is too early to measure the political repercussions of this leap, its impact on mass consciousness, and its prospects. There are too many variables at play, objectively unpredictable, both domestic and international, including the outcome of the Trump-Netanyahu plan. However, it is necessary and...

29 Ottobre 2025 - Communist Workers Party

International statement. For a Free Palestine from the river to the sea. No to Trump and...

Italian version The massive mobilization that continues to grow and the shift of a majority of global public opinion in favor of the Palestinian people and against the genocide of the Zionist State of Israel have accelerated imperialism’s efforts to achieve a new and precarious ceasefire, the objective of which is to dismantle the international mobilization and allow Zionism to continue advancing by other means, resting on a counterrevolutionary pact with the Palestinian...

21 Ottobre 2025 - International Socialist League (ISL), League for the Fifth International (L5I)

Strike for Palestine!

Hands off the Flotilla! No to the Trump-Blair-Netanyahu plan!

Leaflet distributed for the general strike for Palestine Italian version At the same time as Trump and Netanyahu promote a neo-colonial plan for Palestine and Gaza, the Zionist state's navy protects its naval blockade in the Gaza Sea by threatening, attacking and seizing the Flotilla's boats. It's just outrageous and unacceptable. The naval blockade of Gaza, which has been in place for eighteen years (...not just since October 7th 2023), is part of the genocidal war that Netanyahu has...

2 Ottobre 2025 - Communist Workers Party

No to a colonial protectorate in Gaza!

On the side of Palestinian resistence

Italian version The Trump-Netanyahu plan for Gaza is currently being celebrated by all media as a great peace plan for Palestine and the Middle East. But it is indeed a real a neo-colonial plan. A plan for the need of the Zionist state and for imperialism. The executioner Netanyahu aims to reap the fruits of the great genocidal war: the surrender and disarmament of the Palestinian resistance; a free hand in the West Bank, which the plan deliberately fails to mention; a Gaza government...

30 Settembre 2025 - Communist Workers Party

Russia and China back the Trump-Blair-Netanyahu plan

Italian version 'Russia always supports and welcomes any efforts by Trump aimed at ending the tragedy that is currently unfolding. And, of course, we want this plan to be implemented and for it to help bring events in the Middle East to a peaceful conclusion.'. This was stated on behalf of Putin by his spokesman Dmitry Peskov, after having recalled that Moscow has maintained contact with all sides in the conflict. That is, first and foremost with Netanyahu. China too has officially offered...

30 Settembre 2025 - Communist Workers Party

For the expropriation of the war industry, under workers' control

For an antimilitarist response that goes beyond pacifism

Italian version 'War is a gigantic commercial enterprise, especially for the war industry. The “60 Families” are therefore first-line patriots and the chief provocateurs of war. Workers’ control of war industries is the first step in the struggle against the “manufacturers” of war. To the slogan of the reformists: a tax on military profit, we counterpose the slogans: confiscation of military profit and expropriation of the traffickers in war industries. Where...

3 Settembre 2025 - Communist Workers Party

Trump and Putin in Alaska. The noose tightens around Ukraine's neck

Italian version We will write more extensively in the coming days about developments in world relations. Not everything is already clear and definite about the outcome of the meeting between Trump and Putin in Alaska. But a first basic assessment is possible – the US-Russia summit in Anchorage has followed the script of the most classic deal between imperialist powers over the skin and rights of other countries and peoples. 'Those who are not at the table are on the menu', an old...

17 Agosto 2025 - Communist Workers Party

What is happening between US imperialism and Russian imperialism?

Trump's openness put to the test by Putin's closure. The unknown variables in global relations

Italian version Lenin frames imperialism as a dynamic phenomenon, permanently exposed by its very nature to ever-changing relations, particularly between the great powers. Today, the change of direction of the planet's main power makes Lenin's method of analysis all the more relevant. The mobility of world relations has accelerated sharply, with repeated changes of scenario and many unknown variables. Trump’s persona and his now proverbial 'unpredictability' is a secondary...

24 Luglio 2025 - Communist Workers Party

Russian imperialism and the Zionist state. Lessons from the Iranian crisis

Why did the US, Israel and Russia voted together at the UN against condemning the invasion of Ukraine? What campism doesn't want to see

Italian version The story of the war against Iran sheds light on various aspects of the global scenario, even on those that may not be immediately obvious and on those that the ideological blindness of campism refuses to see. One of these aspects is the relationship between Russian imperialism and the Zionist state. But let's take it one step at a time. The first indisputable fact that emerged was the refusal by Russia and China of any military assistance to Iran when it was under attack....

30 Giugno 2025 - Communist Workers Party