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Internationalism No. 81, November 2025 Page 7 The Resistance against the Nazi occupation in Russia did not differ at all from the nationalist pattern that characterised all occupied countries. In Stalinist propaganda, Nazism was a product of the entire history of the German people, a people to be destroyed in the name of Holy Mother Russia . The illusions of revolutionary fraternisation with the uniformed German proletarians sent to fight, which still lingered in the memories and expectations of some Russian officers and soldiers, were considered a betrayal punishable by death. The Orthodox Holy Synod resumed its functions, and there was constant reference made to the great generals of the tsarist past, as well as the reintroduction of epaulettes and ranks into the army, which the Bolsheviks had abolished. The singing of the Internationale was replaced by a patriotic anthem. Patriotic war and defeatism ...

Internationalism No. 81, November 2025 Page 6 On October 20th, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Japan Innovation Party (JIP) signed a coalition agreement that allowed Sanae Takaichi to be elected prime minister, the first woman to hold this position in the history of the Land of the Rising Sun. The preamble to the document emphasises the common national vision of the two parties and their desire to launch a government capable of overcoming the national crisis and realise Japan’s revival . In a situation described as the most severe and complex since 1945, autonomy is needed to support strategic stability [...] in the Far East and contribute to global security . To do so, in addition to its bilateral alliance with the US, Tokyo must assume a leading role , adopting a worldview of international politics and security grounded in realism . Rebalancing to the right for the LDP The breakdown of the coalition agree...

Internationalism No. 81, November 2025 Page 5 The Gaza Declaration , signed on October 13 th in Sharm El-Sheikh in the presence of Donald Trump and around twenty heads of State and government from European and Islamic countries, established a fragile truce in a conflict that had gradually spread throughout the region, from Lebanon to Syria, Iran, and, finally, Qatar, with the Israeli raid on September 9 th . The attack on Qatar represented a turning point in the war, calling into question Washington's security guarantees to its Arab regional allies. Just a week later, Riyadh announced a military pact with Pakistan, which implies that Islamabad will provide its nuclear umbrella to the Saudi monarchy. Euro-Islamic coalition for Trump's plan Since last spring, Saudi Arabia, together with France, has been promoting a diplomatic initiative for the recognition of a Palestinian State at the UN, with the aim of providing a political framework for...

Internationalism No. 81, November 2025 Page 4 “Capital for China” [December 1994] and “Arms for Asia” [January 1995] are among Arrigo Cervetto’s last writings. They are part of a series of articles on the social, political, and military consequences of Asia’s irruption into the multipolar world. A 1992 article, “Rearmament in Asia” , had already observed how the end of the Cold War translated into China’s rise in Asia, including in the military sphere. Consequently, in the process of China’s imperialistic maturation, its power relations with Japan, India, and the United States were changing. The rapid development in the region, supported by a very high rate of proletarianisation , attracted massive amount of capital, fuelling tensions. The old imperialist metropolises intervened with huge flows of credit and arms. The supposed end of history , celebrated in the West through the benign myth of globalisation, was met in the East ...

Internationalism No. 81, November 2026 Page 3 From the series European news We are not at war, but we are no longer at peace either , said Friedrich Merz at the end of September, commenting on Russian drones and fighter jets flying over European territory. The German Chancellor's comment confirms what we have observed: the political currents of imperialist Europeanism are attempting to leverage the wars of the crisis in the world order to accelerate continental rearmament. German-led rearmament According to the European Commission's Defence Readiness Roadmap and the September report by the European Defence Agency (EDA), EU countries' military spending has increased from €218 billion in 2021 to €343 billion in 2024, reaching 1.9% of GDP; €392 billion in spending is forecast for 2025. This is only the beginning of European rearmament, because at the NATO summit at the end of June, the allies committed to increa...

Americanism and Europeanism in the Crisis in the World Order Internationalism No. 81, November 2025 Page 1 What can be said about the show diplomacy which has become the hallmark of the American presidency, and was spectacularly demonstrated in Donald Trump's performances at the Israeli Knesset and at the Peace 2025 ceremony in Sharm El Sheikh? The terrain is treacherous, given how it combines the new forms of television and social media democracy and the historical characteristics of Americanism , with the structural changes of Atlantic decline and the resulting dynamics of the global contention. Although it is tinged with a certain despondency, it is worth revisiting the description given in July in L’Opinion by Frédéric Charillon, former head of the Strategic Research Institute at the Military School and lecturer at ESSEC, a French grande école of economic sciences with Jesuit roots. In his view, the days of classical diplomacy are o...

Internationalism No. 80, October 2026, Special Issue Pages III and IV From the introduction to Arrigo Cervetto’s Opere Scelte ("Selected Works") , recently published in Italy by Edizioni Lotta Comunista. IV The Prague crisis showed that the balances established at Yalta no longer had any economic basis. Just as the reflections of the early 1950s and the texts read in Argentina had suggested, the decades of post-war development had once again transformed Germany into an economic power, and the USSR was forced into a bloody defensive action. The tactic in the educational crisis, the battle over the prospects of trade unionism in wage struggles, and the crisis of imbalance This tumultuous development was one of the causes of the French crisis, which culminated in the student demonstrations in Paris in May 1968. In Italy, the decades of the economic miracle were the basis of a crisis of imbalance. The State, political parties, and ideol...