Dear comrades,

On behalf of the CARC Party, I would like to express our appreciation for the importance of your initiative, our best wishes for its success, and our greetings to all participants.

Your initiative is an expression of the resurgence of the communist movement, of the resurgence of the popular mass movement, and of the offensive spreading against imperialism. It is a sign of the epochal turning point in the progress of humanity, a sign of the era of the proletarian revolution and, in particular, a sign of the resurgence following the decades of black reaction that began with the fall of the USSR. This turning point will be marked by a new quality: the victory of the socialist revolution in one or more imperialist countries; and we, in Italy, are making every effort to ensure that our country do that becoming a new socialist country. Every step forward we take on this path takes ground away from the imperialists and weakens their attack against the peoples of the oppressed countries, and, among these, the peoples of Africa and those leading their struggle for liberation. 

Your struggle is of infinite importance and gives us both lessons and strength. Our progress will also be marked by the extent to which we succeed in forging links, advancing the ideological debate, carrying out joint organisational activities, and responding with a single voice to the repression with which the imperialist bourgeoisie and its servants attempt to curb the new wave of the proletarian revolution and the liberation movement of the peoples of the world, just as they do in Italy, Kenya and across the globe.

This message we are sending you is also to tell you that we would like to be there with you, and that we are not for two reasons. 

The first reason is that the path of building the socialist revolution in Italy demands our utmost commitment. The CARC party is assuming a leading role for many of the most important channels of the struggles of the popular masses, amongst the workers and all labourers, amongst the youth,

in the solidarity movement for Palestine and Venezuela, in the struggle against war, against the imperialists and the Zionists, at national and local level alongside the new Italian Communist Party, our comrade party with whom we share the vision and objective of making Italy a new socialist country, and is resolutely leading the offensive against the class enemy from underground.

What we are engaged in is a qualitative leap that absorbs most of our energies and still limits our work on the international stage.

The role the Party is assuming and the deepening of the crisis are forcing the class enemy to intensify its repression against us. In Italy, the imperialist bourgeoisie refrains from using the repressive methods it employs in oppressed countries—massacres, assassinations, and imprisonment. The bourgeoisie of our country did so during fascism and in particular during the Nazi-fascist occupation, between 1943 and 1945, exterminating the populations of entire towns and villages by the most atrocious means, imprisoning communists and bringing their leaders to their deaths, foremost among them Antonio Gramsci. The working masses of our country, led by their Communist Party, responded to all this, and the defeat suffered by the bourgeoisie on our peninsula was catastrophic.

The class enemy today, therefore, makes less use of those old methods and increasingly resorts to attacks on other fronts, primarily the economic one. Party comrades, as well as members of the masses, are subject to fines ranging from €1,000 to €10,000 simply for having demonstrated outside the headquarters of racist and fascist political forces that declare they want to send immigrants home, just as Trump does with ICE in the USA. Party comrades are having their means of work seized by the political police, first and foremost their mobile phones and computers, and are forced to raise funds to deal with this extraordinary situation, including to cover legal costs in the face of the most serious charge: subversive association – the very charge with which the fascist regime imprisoned Antonio Gramsci and led him to his death.

Because of all this, we are receiving a level of solidarity never before seen across the country and from many parts of the world, and here I call for this solidarity to be extended, but the current circumstances on this specific occasion lead us to focus our efforts on two fronts: generally in Italy to advance the socialist revolution, and specifically against the repressive attack, ensuring that repression strengthens us—something we have learnt well in the past and which we shall do even better this time. Due to these commitments, we are not present among you today as we would wish to be, and as we shall be on future occasions.

Comrades, our relationship with many of you is new to us, but we are certain it will grow stronger over time for the reasons a comrade from West Africa explained at the Dakar Conference in November 2024: the reasons he called ‘logical’, that is, our common way of thinking, and the reasons he called ‘magnetic’, that is, the force that unites us.

Long live the proletarian revolution!

Long live the African liberation movement!

Down with imperialism!

Forward, to victory!