Repression against the vanguard Workers and the Maoists in Italy

The Italian imperialist state, the Prodi/Bertinotti government launched a repressive campaign against the vanguard workers in several factories and work places and against the Italian Maoists, their press, their mass activities, in a number of cities in Italy.

The charge is "subversive association with purpose of terrorism", the aim is to hinder and suppress the presence of the Maoists in Italy. The searches took place in Taranto, Potenza, Palermo, Ravenna, Milan, Bergamo, Venice, Neaples, Siena, Perugia, in the offices of union and the houses of workers activists.

The imperialist press speaks about subversives, terrorists, connections with the international terrorism, but the particular feature of this operation is that it is focused on the criminalization of the activities in the big factories: the Fiat -- the Fiat Sata in Melfi, site of the great 21-days-long struggle in the 94, is the true epicentre of the operation -- the Ilva, the petrochemilcals, the shipyards, etc., at the aim to directly hit the working class, the class organization, the communist Marxist-Leninist-Maoist press.

Proletari comunisti and the Slai Cobas for the class union are vigorously responding in the different cities and work places to defend the comrades hit by the repression, continuing and intensifying their activities in the fire of the class struggle and closely linked with the masses. proletari comunisti, together with other Italian communist organizations in our, also carries forward a political national campaign in occasion of the 90th anniversary of the October Revolution, with a central final initiative that will take place in Rome, the 10th of November, at 4 P.M. at the Villaggio Globale proletari comunisti 20.10.2007 Please address your declaration to: ro.red@libero.it