Capitalism has announced its "new frontier" of the globalisation of markets and economies, promising that this will extend the well-being of the West to the rest of the world.
The leaders of the official workers’ movement are now asking the working class to adjust to this new "progress" and welcome all of its positive potential: but the sum of this potential is simply lower wages, poorer living and working conditions, less and more precarious employment, and the renunciation of any trade union or political organisation of class defence.
This is not a step forward, but a leap backward that unveils the reality hidden by the propaganda of "progress": capitalism is sinking into an increasingly profound crisis, which simply maximises the level of competition between different States and different capitalist systems. In its attempt to attenuate the effects of this crisis, capitalism is simply trying to pass them on to the proletariat: to the masses of the Third World by preying on their natural resources, continuously provoking wars, exploiting their low wages, forcing them to emigrate in order to increase the reserve proletarian pool in Western countries; and to the working class of the West by worsening its living and working conditions.
The leaders of the workers’ movement are prepared to submit to the competitive needs of their individual countries and national capitalist systems but, by doing so, they are simply passing on the logic of competition to the proletariat and undermining its possibility of developing a united resistance. In Italy, the submission to this logic is such that it is even leading the proletariat to the point of accepting its own "Balkanisation" or sub-division into micro-nations.
In order to halt this process and avoid the possibility of a world-wide Bosnia in which everybody fights against everybody else, there is an urgent need for the proletariat to respond at the same level by forming a united international front of workers and the oppressed masses of the South of the world.
The immediate trade union and political grounds upon which to build such a front are becoming increasingly fertile as a result of the widespread development of movements against the effects of the crisis of capitalism - from Europe (Germany, Belgium, Greece, France, the Liverpool dockworkers, etc.) to Latin America, the Middle East and Asia (with the powerful Korean movement).
However, even fertile ground needs to be sown with healthy seeds that are capable of bearing fruit, and neither Stalinist nor Labour-oriented reformism is capable of sowing a crop-bearing plant of any kind because its destiny is strictly bound to the fate of the capitalist system in its own country.
Together with the disinherited masses of the oppressed countries, the proletariat must therefore adopt a different policy: one that refuses to bow down to the almighty god of capitalism but is determined to engage in an all-out battle against it, without any quarter being asked or given. And this can only mean a policy, a programme and an organisation that is truly Communist - international and internationalist.
As part of their attempt to fulfil this task to the full, the publishers of this journal are more than prepared to make its pages available to all genuinely class forces and militants sincerely dedicated to the anti-capitalist cause (Italian and otherwise) in order to begin (finally!) to establish a serious bond of international organisation and struggle.