Repression is a constant in government action against those who engage in social opposition. In a situation of repression that we might call systemic, the actions of the Meloni government, with their unmistakably fascist roots, demonstrate a clear intensification of the ongoing repressive decrees we have witnessed recently. ---- Widespread impoverishment, growing precariousness, the spread of the war economy, and the exhaustion of all margins of social mediation are leading to a loss of consensus to which the government is responding with specific repressive measures necessary to quell social discontent.
In light of all this, the narrative of repression as a response to a security emergency must be totally rejected.
The government's authoritarian grip is attacking us at every level: the criminalization of young people; the increasingly severe restrictions on the freedom to demonstrate; preventive detention; the denial of free legal aid for appeals against the expulsion of migrants, while the "law enforcement" forces are guaranteed coverage of legal costs up to €10,000 for each level of judgment; the increase in administrative repression which provides fewer guarantees and possibilities for defense; the measures aimed at breaking solidarity among prisoners, making them passive and encouraging denunciation with the specific crime of rioting in prisons and CPRs; the criminalization of confrontational union activity; the regulations that further target those who oppose major projects and environmental devastation with direct action practices.
These devices, which target dissent, are increasingly being implemented through economic pressure on movements and activists.
The attacks on self-managed social spaces, which were actually carried out by previous governments, represent for this government an offensive with primarily propaganda value, which however, in practice eliminates spaces for alternative social interaction and collective organization.
These targeted actions and the tightening of security measures are accompanied by a general tightening of discipline that spills over into workplaces and schools. One example is the militarization of schools, which will intensify in anticipation of the recruitment drive linked to the proposed reintroduction of compulsory military service.
The real beneficiaries of this situation are the bosses, the real instigators of these policies. The blackmail of employment, the high cost of living, the cuts to services, and starvation wages, in the will of the ruling classes, should make the workplace increasingly places of discipline and social reproduction.
In the general repressive framework, the desire to specifically target the anarchist movement emerges.
We call for solidarity with those affected by repression and support those fighting for a free and equal world.
Italian Anarchist Federation
Massenzatico Conference, February 8, 2026
https://umanitanova.org/la-vera-sicurezza-e-un-mondo-senza-stato-e-senza-polizia/
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Link: (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #5-26 - True security is a world without a state and without police. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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