It's not my intention to advertise anything, but the data reported in the Atlas of Wars and Conflicts in the World, published by the 46th Parallel Ets association and distributed by Valori, are important and significant on several fronts. ---- As of November 2025, there were thirty-two ongoing wars worldwide, as well as twenty-two crisis areas on the brink of armed conflict. This means that approximately half the world's population lives in a climate of war, whether open or creeping.
War therefore dominates our current imagination, fuels it, shapes it. It changes our way of thinking and, obviously, has a significant impact on our way of communicating, on the words we use-essentially, on our language.
The media and social networks play a key role in all of this, selecting images, phrases, speeches, and arguments, using a bellicose, aggressive vocabulary. This contributes to the spread of anxiety and fear, while also fostering the adoption of words with a distinctly military origin in everyday speech. Front line, trench, deterrence, surgical strike, retaliation, campaign, special operation, collateral damage, drone, (water) bomb, etc. are now words on everyone's lips. Not to mention "weapon," which is used in every possible way.
This is the language employed by the small group of tyrants and powerful figures who govern the world, to convince us that war is the only solution to finding a new balance, but in reality, to divide it up and seize social wealth and energy sources. A language that makes the unacceptable acceptable, the undrinkable drinkable, and yet useful for creating an enemy. Little by little, social consciousness is becoming accustomed to considering inevitable what is instead entirely avoidable, if only we wanted it to be.
But there's more than just warfare directed at external warfare, the war fought beyond state borders. There's also a warfare directed at internal warfare, the war waged against immigrants, the refractory, the antagonistic, those unwilling to put their necks in the hangman's noose, and the anarchists among them.
To support the government's approval of one "security" decree after another-obviously worsening in progression-ministers, parliamentarians, and influencers of every ilk have raged and continue to rage across the media, social media, and elsewhere, using terrifying and terrorizing language. The militant anti-fascist and the anarchist are the enemies to be fought, not so much for what they do, but for what they represent, with their legacy of ideas, proposals, and practices.
A slogan from one of the most famous 19th-century anarchist songs (Addio Lugano bella) was used on the walls, sung at every demonstration, including union demonstrations, to inaugurate that firm, preventive gesture of fascist remembrance for ninety-one comrades intending to lay flowers at the site of the deaths of Sara Ardizzone and Alessandro Mercogliano. While the fascists, undisturbed, can display their strength and discipline by marching in military formation and saluting their comrades with outstretched arms, anarchists must be allowed nothing. But this is right: the former are integral to economic and political power, as they always have been. We, on the other hand, firmly oppose this power, a source of injustice, oppression, and exploitation for a vast portion of the population, by proposing new forms of social organization. The militaristic language so abundantly employed by hacks in newspapers serves entirely to perpetually marginalize anarchist discourse from political and social debate, reducing it to a mere criminal act: even the simplest expressions of dissent and denunciation become "assaults," if not "devastations" if a shop window accidentally falls, an expression of terrorism that is no longer latent but real. The League also introduced a bill in Parliament in March 2026 to classify anarchists and militant anti-fascists into a single terrorist organization, in the wake of the September 2025 US decree defining Antifa as "the number one terrorist group in the United States and as a militarist and anarchist enterprise that explicitly promotes the overthrow of the government, the police, and the legal system."
In this context, the significance of Alfredo Cospito's heavy sentence and lengthy prison sentence under the 41-bis regime is clear. He was simply labeled a terrorist for an ineffective demonstration attack, and not only is he being held accountable for the publicity and political consequences of his hunger strike, but above all, he intends to use it, at a time of declining credibility for institutions and the government, to undermine, through blackmail, any significant mobilization against the government. A right-wing rag, both in name and in practice, headlined on Monday, April 20, "Anarchist assaults. A single mastermind from Rome to Milan. Alert rising: a hybrid conflict already underway in the name of Cospito and Hezbollah." On April 28, the same rag wrote on its front page: "Fear for May Day. The CARC and the Cospito plan: enlist the 'baby' Red Brigades. Praise for Ramelli's killers; anarchists and opponents prepare for the clash."
A hodgepodge whose sole purpose is to pave the way for further repressive measures. There are probably some who think this is a way to celebrate the centenary of the "Fascist Laws" promulgated by Mussolini in 1926, which established the dictatorship in Italy.
While in much of the world, amid media indifference, hundreds of thousands of people are being massacred in wars for profit and millions are forced to abandon their homes and lands, while environmental destruction and devastation add to human and non-human suffering-also with the contribution of the arms industry and Italian political and economic support-there are those who glorify their own misery in an attempt to criminalize a movement that has always championed freedom and social justice. We are not surprised: those who want to lead us into external war must first win the internal one. And words, too, are weapons to achieve this goal.
Massimo Varengo
https://umanitanova.org/parole-come-pallottole/
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Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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