To the

Workers on general strike on 20 June 2025 in Italy

and to the

Participants of the manifestation

on 21 June in Rome

For the attention of the

Unione Sindacale di Base (USB)

Workers in battle!

There is no end to the war against workers. Not a day goes by without workers of our class being dismissed, their existence in wage labour and the general impoverishment of our class. Workers! This has long been the case: The capitalist economic order is at an end. The war against us workers determines the government, just like capital. Without its war against the proletariat, its exploitation of us will perish. But its arbitrary oppression of the people also comes to an end. Fascism and war in Germany and in almost all European countries show us workers one thing: co-operation with capital brings us misery and war in genocide.

German capital is currently forcing hundreds of thousands of us into unemployment and impoverishment. This is a war of the bourgeoisie, which is not only destroying our everyday work in its factories, but also in the gun smoke against the workers of other countries, which is borrowing 1.6 trillion war loans from us in order to wage its genocide against the East, against the workers in countries that were once under its power - under the dictatorship of the proletariat - destroying their work and seizing power. As occupiers. And every glance across the borders shows the same picture: the mobilisation for war, the forced conscription into state forced labour, and the renewed recruitment of us workers as soldiers for their labour and genocide. We workers all have to fight against war and fascism. No worker shoots at us and other workers! We see that you are on this anti-war front, against your government and big business, when you stop the transport of ships of death through your organised action.

Every one of your acts against the war, against the storm of fascism and war, is an act of the workers in Europe, who must come together in their still too national resistance against the individual governments and capitalists of this war mob in order to gain the strength to put an end to the class war of this war mob. We workers are the only peace army that can put an end to the coming world war. Let us renew the anti-war front internationally. It has already shown us that the barbarism of fascism in Germany and also in your country, Italy, will be defeated. We hope that the general strike against your government will be so successful that the international anti-war front will support you, just as you support it.

This is our battle salute:

Down with the onslaught of fascism and war!