Internationalism No. 77, July 2025 Page 4 From the series Assessment of a tactical choice The failure of the referendums promoted by the CGIL (Italian General Confederation of Labour) confirmed that this instrument cannot be a weapon in the trade union struggle, which is necessarily based on the power relations between capital and wage labour. We republish the leaflet of the workers of our Workers' Clubs on this subject below. Shifting the relationship to the terrain of parliamentarism is a recipe for disaster and is not part of the tradition of the trade union movement, which has always been vigilant against interference by the legislative and executive powers in their bargaining with the employers. The defence of migrants In the most recent referendum, there was an aggravating factor: the inclusion of the question of citizenship, a very sensitive and important issue for i...