Internationalism No. 73, March 2025 Page 1 Thirty years after the death of Arrigo Cervetto , we are publishing here the concluding passages of the introduction to his Opere Scelte (“Selected Works”) for the series Biblioteca Giovani (“Publications for young people”), soon to be published in Italian. The 1944-45 partisan war in Italy. The political battle within libertarian communism. The Korean War, and the watchword of “neither Washington nor Moscow”. The layoffs at the Ilva and Ansaldo factories, the political battle and trade union defence in the struggles of post-war restructuring. From 1953 onwards, the crisis of Stalinism, the 1956 Suez crisis, the Hungarian uprising, the 1957 Theses and the challenge of theory and strategy vis-à-vis the tendencies of unitary imperialism. The political struggle within Azione Comunista (“Communist Action”) and the Movimento della Sinistra Comunista (“Movement of the Communist Left”). From the 1950s to the early 1970s, t...
Internationalism No. 89, July 2026 Page 3 From the series European news German industrial output has been falling for six years. This is happening at a time when the US is imposing tariffs, competition from China is growing, and the energy shock caused by the war in Iran comes on top of the severing of energy ties with Russia triggered by the conflict in Ukraine. Friedrich Merz's government is attempting to revive the economy through substantial defence spending and investment in infrastructure, combined with domestic reforms. However, the latter is precisely what the government is struggling with, and there is still no sign of the renewed momentum it had hoped for. As frustration grows across the country, the government's decline in the polls has been mirrored by the rise of the AfD. This is the context in which the debate over “China shock 2.0” is unfolding. T...