LET'S STOP THE AUTHORITARIAN GRIP, LET'S MULTIPLY OUR STRUGGLES AND SOLIDARITY ---- The FAI Conference, held in Asti on June 5 and 6, 2026, confirmed the analyses already produced at the previous federation meeting on the repressive situation in the country. ---- In publicly denouncing the government's authoritarian grip, which aims to target all social opposition, the labor market, young people and students, immigrants, and all the most vulnerable social groups with intimidating and terrorist measures, the Conference of the Italian Anarchist Federation firmly rejects the explicit criminalization of anarchism by the government and the media, subservient to the logic of power.
In derogation of any residual semblance of democratic guarantees, the fascist government has brought to fruition a long process by which individuals are persecuted not for what they do but for what they think.
Anarchism is in the government's crosshairs because it presents itself as an irreconcilable opponent of domination, exploitation, and war.
No one, however, can feel safe, since this attack on ideas and freedom of thought represents a point of no return that must be responded to with widespread struggle and active solidarity, for freedom against all fascism and injustice.
AGAINST ALL WARS, ANTIMILITARISM, AND INTERNATIONALISM
In a climate of widespread and permanent war, the federation believes it is important to relaunch internationalism and antimilitarism as principles and practices characterizing its political action. Italy is actively participating on the main war fronts, both with its own military contingents and by sending weapons, providing logistical services, and hosting strategic US and NATO military infrastructure on its territory.
At the same time, borders are being further closed to those fleeing war and poverty. The Italian government intends to implement the new European Asylum Pact, legalizing pushbacks at sea with a "naval blockade" and detaining asylum seekers in prisons outside Italy.
To this end, the government has signed a new memorandum with Libya and is providing resources and personnel to the Tunisian authorities, with the aim of repressing and blocking people on the move.
This silent extermination adds to the massive killings of civilians in Ukraine, Iran, and Lebanon, and the ongoing genocides in Gaza and Sudan.
In this context, military spending continues to rise, resulting in precariousness, unemployment, and poverty for large segments of the population, in what has now effectively become a war economy.
The arms race also includes the reintroduction of military conscription, increased military personnel and reserves, and a general enlistment of society in the war effort and war propaganda, which are met with widespread opposition, especially among younger generations.
The arms industry, largely controlled by the state, is booming, and in this context, logistics infrastructure is becoming increasingly strategic for the movement of war materials.
Railways, like ports, are among the infrastructures most affected by military traffic and are also the sectors where workers have mobilized against arms transport.
Railways in particular have seen significant militarization across strategic European and international corridors.
To counter all this, the conference believes it is essential to support and relaunch the work of the antimilitarist assembly and launch a series of campaigns against the war on migrants, against the return of military conscription and the conscription of society, against weapons production and the military use of railways, in support of deserters from all wars and of comrades who oppose warmongering and bloodthirsty regimes.
The FAI Conference
https://federazioneanarchica.org/archivio/archivio_2026/20260609asti.html
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Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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