The Internationalism

Internationalism No. 78-79, August-September 2025 Page 16 Facts are stubborn things, they say, but reality is so intricate and multifaceted that facts can be used to prove anything. In the online world, there are anti-scientific ideas, which digital imbecility manages to spread and find an audience for. It is not true that facts speak for themselves. They must be connected and organised hierarchically by concepts and a scientific method, and only then do they become powerful tools for understanding reality and changing it. For us, this is the task of the science-party : to bring scientific order to our understanding of a chaotic world that appears to be an indecipherable Babel, and to guide those who want to fight as revolutionaries. Take the rearmament of Europe, about which rivers of ink are being spilled. How real is it? The Financial Times , perhaps precisely because ...

The inauguration of the Draghi government has revived top trade union leaders anxious to be involved by the government of all , all the more so in the era of the Recovery Fund. The word consultation has been the most used in some recent trade union comments. Annamaria Furlan, of the CIS [Italian Confederation of Trade Unions] is explicit in calling for a great consultative pact [ Il Messaggero , 8 th February]. Pierpaolo Bombardier, secretary of the UIL [Italian Labour Union], adds that the consultation must become a method to help the country restart . Maurizio Landini, of the CGIL [Italian General Confederation of Labor] sees the novelty in the fact that social partners have been involved in the establishment of the new government [ Conquiste del lavoro , 11 th February]. The two phases of European imperialist politics In this sense there are many comparisons to the Ciampi govemment of 1993, omitting that consultation was functional to limiting the costs of labour. There ...