This is the first time maybe in my lifetime that I've seen a real W for organized labor in Italy, I have to admit I had basically lost any hope. Italy used to have one of the most radical labor movements in Europe (we used to disappear industrialists ffs), but by the time I was born our unions had become neutered, bureaucratic and corrupt entities whose whose main output was bootstrapping the career of useless centrist politicians.

I am still almost in disbelief of how effective the Genoa dockworkers union was. They made an open threat: "if anything happens to a single boat in our flotilla we shut down Europe", as soon as the first strikes on the flotilla happened in Tunis they called in a National strike, and they fucking pulled it off. Half the country's services were shut down on Monday. Almost a million people were in the streets. If our very zionist government went so far as to send a warship to escort the flotilla it means the fuckers were actually rattled. They wouldn't do this unless they seriously thought things could escalate in the country.

Labor organizing scares fascists, folks...

Shout out to the workers of Collettivo Autonomo Lavoratori Portuali (CALP) of Genoa for reigniting a tiny spark of hope in this godforsaken country. Solidarity forever. I'm trying to see if they have a strike fund that people can contribute to but I can't find one, they are "calp_genova" on Insta and "CALPinfo" on Telegram.

Where are the people who keep telling me that China cannot do anything about a genocide that has become an international issue?

I declare a moratorium on mocking Italians till further notice.

If need be mock the French instead.

Thank you to everyone who cared and supported our cause. Thank you to the steadfastness fleet that faces dangers for us. Thank you to everyone who helped and supported us. Thank you, my friends, for what you have given us ❤❤✌

What a development out of Italy!

Wdym organizing gets results??? They should have just waited years to vooote.

That's awesome. This must be a result of the huge protests that have been for Palestine in Italy recently and a demonstration of people power. Every country should be sending a ship as an escort, but this is a good start.

Let this be a lesson to all the electoralism copers that mass working class militant action can push even a fascist Italian government to send a warship, a fucking warship, to protect an international contingent of civilians from the Wests darling settler colonial cancer on the Levant. It would be a shame for the bourgeois if people in other countries copied this...

I can't believe Hamas is governing Italy

Honestly I don't want to give too much credit considering who actually governs Italy, but still. Good to see one of these flotillas getting some support like this and I hope it becomes a trend.

Finally some good news. It shows that direct action works, folks.

I wonder what'll happen if Israel sinks it, USS liberty 2 or entering the global cool zone?

summoning Petro's coalition of armies to defeat Israel into reality

I KNEW WE'D COME AROUND ONE DAY! ITALIAN REDEMPTION ARC WHEN? <- Lives in burgerland

My first post years ago was a rabid defense of Italy and deflecting blame on their failures to the operations of western powers during the interwar period and then GLADIO postwar . I feel vindicated in my assessment, and thank Trump for dislodging European people from American sympathies.

Like South Africa all over again. Goodbye apartheid, you will always lose.

Something Always Happens

Apparently Spain is now also sending a military escort

This is both surprising and scary. Hope y'all news junkies keep us posted because this could be a potential powder keg scenario.

GOOD news.

FUCK YEAH!

feel like this is the first positive international news i have heard in a long while

Communist Italy when?

no more half measures walter

Israel is gonna sink a frigate. Sorry to be a doomer, but that is what Israel is gonna do.

i was expecting like a patrol boat or a minesweeper or something
that's a pretty serious warship

Now accompany it all the way and help distribute the aid