WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, Alternativa Libertaria/FdCA #22: ANALYSIS OF THE LATIN AMERICAN SITUATION - Coordinación Anarquista LatinoAmericana (part 1) (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On the international scene we are experiencing major changes in power
correlations that have not started now, but which have gained greater
intensity with the events of recent years. ---- After the end of the
Cold War and the defeat of the Real Socialist bloc of countries, we
began a phase of what has been conventionally called a unipolar world,
with the United States centralizing all power and influencing the rest
of the world. world, without much resistance. A globalization dictated
by multinationals and Western values (with ideological-military
supporters and political-economic protectorates as supporters) of much
of Europe, as well as Japan, South Korea, Canada, Australia, New Zealand
and the State of Israel, based on Zionism and racist apartheid.
On the other hand, since the 1970s and 1980s, the living standards
achieved by these countries have shown signs of significant
deterioration, something that was essential to keep the majority of the
oppressed classes under control and in line with their policies.
We are living through the golden age of neoliberal policy created during
the Cold War and become the only truth accepted by economists and
official governments in most of the world. Decades of this policy have
seen society absorbed and precarized almost to the point of exhaustion.
When this model fails, there are two possibilities: either a popular
uprising or the system must reinvent itself. What we are witnessing is
the system reinventing itself.
In this new reorganization of the system we see the emergence of a new
international sphere of influence. Led by China, a new non-white and
non-Western power bloc begins to form, which begins to design a
multipolar world in which the hegemony of the Atlantic axis begins to
crack, all in the midst of an ambitious development project that lasts
for many decades, based on centralized state planning, on the intensive
exploitation of the working class, on the elimination of internal
opposition and with well-marked phases of development. The People's
Republic of China is already the largest industrial power in the world
and will gradually become the largest economic power. While it is not
yet comparable to the military might of Russia and the United States, it
has made significant investments in this sector in recent years.
In line with the above, China is transforming from a country with a
low-cost, second-rate industrial products industry to a powerhouse with
cutting-edge technology, opening up its market, but incorporating
advanced technologies and influencing the development of its own
technologies. In this context, sectors of the left fuel an illusory
vision of "Chinese socialism", which in reality is state capitalism,
placing this country at the forefront of the anti-imperialist struggle.
These are advances in countering the power of the United States, since
at the moment it is impossible to engage in war in the most classic
forms or try to dominate other countries by force. With projects such as
the New Silk Road, which is celebrating its first decade, China aims to
integrate countries, especially from the South of the world, in a
complex process that involves huge investments in infrastructure and the
transfer of part of the production in more than one hundred countries in
the world, especially in search of raw materials.
If decades ago the co-optation of local elites by the North American
Empire and the total submission of nations to the regimes of plunder
dictated by international organizations (such as the International
Monetary Fund and the World Bank) were enough, today capitalism needs to
reinvent itself.
   Without a doubt, in this phase of Chinese power consolidation,
"partnership" is more strategic than direct subordination. First of all
because he needs to deal with a power even greater than his; and
secondly because the characteristic of Chinese capitalism requires these
new relationships. Without a doubt, in the scenario of this new bloc
there is an increase in the purchasing power of the population, but we
cannot in any way call it socialism otherwise we would be using old
concepts for new meanings. Society will continue to be class-based and
this is the initial phase of a new world that does not exist.
If the People's Republic of China triumphs and the United States is
defeated (a situation that, as most predictions agree, will not occur
for a few decades), relations will adapt to a new scenario.

Another important issue is that the Empire will not see its influence
collapse without moving, which could generate attacks against countries
(including Latin America) that threaten to take sides or, at least,
leave the dollar in their international trade , for example.
The war in Ukraine represents an important milestone in these changes in
the geopolitical order.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine expresses deep tensions between the US-led
NATO and the Russian Federation and their traditional zones of
influence. Russia, in fact, is a country which, after the disastrous
transition to the market in 1990, decided to leave the area of
neoliberal influence of the United States, trying to invest in a
recovery of its internal development, while continuing to affirm its
imperial power: influence in Eastern Europe, the East and the Caucasus,
as the second Chechen war showed in all its brutality.
In Russia, under Putin's authoritarian rule, which has lasted for more
than two decades, right-wing imperial nationalism is combined with
aspects of development, seeking to overcome what it perceives as the era
of international humiliation embodied by the Yeltsin government (which
paradoxically designated Putin as his successor), with a highly
authoritarian internal policy, against national minorities, anti-LGBT
and anti-people.
On the other hand, Ukraine has deepened its international alignment with
the European Union and NATO, following the 2014 Euromaidan popular
uprisings against the Yanukovych government, events in which the radical
right played an important role, and which led to the occupation of
Crimea and the civil war in the east of the country. The internal war
generated a situation of exacerbation of the right and nationalists,
which led to the participation in Ukraine of neo-Nazi groups in sectors
of the armed forces and government, as well as pro-Russian neo-fascist
groups in separatist sectors.
Europe assumes a position of total subservience to the international
political interests of the United States in a way that becomes
humiliating, with work in the cultural field so intense that contrary
opinions, even in left-wing sectors, are quickly nullified.
Supporting a war that implies an increase in the cost of living, with
inflation rates not seen for generations in Western Europe and the
threat of deindustrialization, as well as the increase in the cost of
energy and basic necessities, the popular uprisings they are already
perceived, common in France, but not as common in England and Germany as
those that have not been seen in those countries for years.
This is where one of the great dangers we face not only in Europe, but
in other parts of the world, lies in the dispute over the hegemony of
international influence.
For some years the revolt against the worsening of living conditions has
been led by the far right, which in many places has managed to steal the
anti-system discourse of the left, a tactic which we also witness in
Brazil with some elements of propaganda. Bolsonaro, but also in the USA
with Trump and in Europe with Brexit, AfD and Le Pen, for example.
The scenario presents us with consolidated conservative,
ultranationalist and radical right governments in Europe (such as in
Hungary, Poland and Italy), as well as a growing movement in France,
Spain, Portugal, among others. A true International of fascist intent is
organized throughout Europe, with its feet planted in several countries
of the southern hemisphere. Such parties and movements have been more or
less successful in elections, depending on national contexts, but they
are consolidating themselves as first-order political forces and leading
the discourse and co-opting parts of the oppressed classes everywhere.
This whole situation adds to older internationalist struggles, such as
the increase in persecution, criminalization and violence against
migrants, especially in Europe; invasions, assassinations and
paramilitary advances against the Zapatista territories in Chiapas; the
blockades against Cuba and Venezuela; the systematic attacks on the
glorious Rojava revolution and Kurdish territories by Turkey (a NATO
member country, by the way); in addition to the tireless resistance of
the Palestinian people against the apartheid regime, state terrorism and
brutal colonization, stronger and more violent every year, perpetrated
by the Zionist state with the financial, logistical and institutional
support of the West.
They are all struggles and movements that we must look at carefully and
move to understand their impacts. We stand in solidarity with people and
position ourselves in the comings and goings of events, attentive to the
consequences for our territories and our ideology.
(September 2023)

Il Cantiere n. 20 ottobre 2023 ilcantiere@autistici.org

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