It was a massive, cross-sectional march, the belated recomposition of the various pieces of an antagonistic left in crisis, crushed between the advance of the reactionary right and the absolute political imbecility of the progressive front, a last gasp of the long experience of social centers that is now coming to an end. In many cases, these are people who, on account of their age, have not even experienced the history of Askatasuna or any other social center firsthand, but have nevertheless responded to a call that is not an expression of opposition to the government, a specific political discourse on the war economy or cuts to public services, but rather the promise of an explosion of anger, a revolt, an event that would overturn the balance of power, at least for a day. We will also be caught between those who will try to label us with equally annoying labels and, above all, those who share the same way of understanding the world: “The streets were filled with a great front against the Meloni government,” “here at last is the new and true political subject (after the Maranzas, Gen Z, the ecologists, the convergence of struggles, the knowledge workers, the logistics workers, the young, the precariat…),” they will thunder from the heights of their occupied buildings that reek of old age.
Author: CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
Published at: 2026-02-07 23:59:18
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