There's an invisible line crossing the Mediterranean, but it's not found in official press releases or in the reports of bourgeois newspapers that tell you about white-elite democracy. It's a red line drawn with blood and crude oil, a web of global energy flows connecting distant oil fields, local refineries, and extermination scenarios. It's the logistical structure of capital that feeds its insatiable hunger for power through ecocides and genocides, crushing everything in its path toward humanity's abyss.
On April 25th, I met in Sicily with Leandro Lanfredi, a petrochemical worker and director of the Sindipetro-RJ union and the FNP in Rio de Janeiro, ready to embark for Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla, who was soon kidnapped in Crete by the state of Israel. He gave me data from the Palestinian Institute for Climate Strategy, a major activist research effort that pierces the veil of invisibility. These data show us that Italy is not a neutral observer, but a vital hub in the circulation of fossil fuels for the Israeli energy system. These investigations reveal the role of Vitol (the giant in the shadows), the largest independent oil trader in the world. With revenues of $343 billion in 2025 and handling 8 million barrels per day, Vitol controls a market share greater than the combined needs of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. It is not a middleman; it is a global infrastructure of domination. Since 2020, this octopus has shipped approximately 21 million barrels (2,890 kilotons) to Israel's vital arteries, such as the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company and the Bazan refinery.
In 2026, as geopolitical tensions curtail supply, Vitol and its 400 partners, protected by an opaque structure between Luxembourg and Switzerland with ridiculous 14% taxes, aren't suffering the crisis, but managing it. They organize flows so that profit never stops, not even in the face of battered bodies.
In this context, Italy is an active participant in a supply chain that transforms, distributes, and re-exports energy. There is no linear proof linking every single shipment to military use, but there is a structural fact: Italy's full integration into a system that also fuels conflicts. The data show an integrated global energy system, players like Vitol with enormous power, and an Italy perfectly integrated into this network. Official statements speak of peace, but material flows tell a different story.
Between June and July 2025, tens of thousands of tons of petroleum products passed through our ports. Between 2022 and 2026, approximately 13 million barrels of Brazilian crude oil were extracted and sold to Israel via Vitol, circumventing worker boycotts. In February 2026, Vitol made the first confirmed shipment of 200,000 barrels of Venezuelan crude oil to Israel, transiting through the Saras refinery in Sardinia, despite union protests.
The government led by Giorgia "Black Shirt" Meloni reiterates its clear political support for the massacre, with Benito La Russa embodying a rigid Atlanticism that never questions capital's infrastructure. But stopping at the right would be a naive mistake. The Democratic Party, during its years in government, has ensured the same continuity: the names of the "Black Shirts" change, but Italy's role as a cog in the war machine remains unchanged.
But this colonial supremacy and impunity isn't unique to today; it has distant origins and has never stopped; it has simply changed skin. While white Europe celebrated the end of Nazi-fascism in May 1945, the same "liberating" powers continued to slaughter lives in Algeria, Eritrea, and Senegal. On May 8, 1945, while celebrations were taking place in Paris, the French army massacred thousands of civilians demanding independence in Sétif and Guelma. We must remember that the true anti-fascist resistance to the invader began in 1935 in Ethiopia, against the fascist military aggression that used poison gas against a free people. That guerrilla warfare, which continued even after the proclamation of the empire, teaches us that there is no difference between Mussolini's colonialism and the extractive system that today starves Abya Yala to fuel the bombers on Gaza.
Today, the talk shows of the "media sludge" host puppets of power free to mock the Global Sumud Flotilla, reducing an international solidarity effort to a mere accounting. In one of his recent shows, Benito La Russa asked, referring to the Flotilla: "How many children have you saved?" However, they remain silent about the responsibilities of those who provide the fuel, weapons, and international protection to kill these children.
Of course, the flotillas spent $9 million without managing to deliver a single drug, and as an anarchist, I would have liked to see more direct and less hierarchical actions than those of the NGOs. But their function is different: to break the isolation and make visible what democratic states want to hide in the fog of propaganda and international law, which is valid "up to a certain point."
In Italian ports, this contradiction has already exploded. Strikes and blockades by logistics workers-just like those led by comrades like Lanfredi in Brazil-have demonstrated that the "invisible line" is real, passing under cranes and in containers. A state cannot claim to be extraneous to genocide if it actively participates in the networks that make it possible. Until this fracture is addressed by direct action by the people, the bloodline will continue to flow. Silent, efficient, indifferent.
Gabriel Cammarata
https://umanitanova.org/carburante-per-la-guerra-la-linea-rossa-del-capitale-sangue-petrolio-e-complicita-italiana/
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Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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