On April 4, the CARC Party and No NATO National Coordination in Italy held the mobilizations in front of the NATO bases and military infrastructures in Ghedi, Bologna, Rome and Naples.
FROM THE PROTESTS OF APRIL 4 TO THOSE OF APRIL 25: LET’S TRULY FREE OURSELVES! ITALY OUT OF NATO, NATO OUT OF ITALY!
On April 4 and the days leading up to it, initiatives, sit-ins, leafleting, banner displays, marches, informational sessions, and popular assemblies took place in many cities across Italy. The mobilization was a success not only because hundreds of people mobilized across the country, but above all because we managed to “target” U.S. and NATO bases and installations during the April 4 demonstrations. It was right in front of these bases and installations that we made our anger heard!
From the military base in Ghedi (Brescia) to the one in Capodichino (Naples), passing through the Joint Forces Operational Command in the Cinecittà neighborhood of Rome, from the Borgo Panigale neighborhood of Bologna where the “death” pipeline NIPS runs, all the way to the popular mobilization at the entrance to the NATO Command in Florence… hundreds of people shouted: “Italy out of NATO, NATO out of Italy”!
Five issues and a clear course of action emerge from the protests of April 4.
1. The Meloni government is a servant and accomplice of the U.S., Zionists, and NATO in World War III. The granting of bases on national territory is the logistical pillar of the Meloni government’s complicity in U.S.-NATO military operations. A common thread across the protests was the denunciation of Italy’s complicity in the ongoing war throughout the Middle East through the provision of bases, weapons, and troops. For example, the U.S. base at Sigonella is one of the world’s main hubs for the deployment of U.S. and NATO drones, hosting various types of remotely piloted aircraft used for U.S. war operations. Between March 19 and 20, the regime-controlled press was forced to report news previously circulated by independent journalists and websites, such as Antonio Mazzeo and Itamilradar, confirming the operational status and central role of this airbase in providing operational support for the bombings against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Just as with Palestine and Ukraine, Italy is also fully involved in the U.S.-NATO attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran.
2. We must place U.S. and NATO bases and installations in Italy “in the crosshairs” of popular mobilization against World War III. The presence of bases, barracks, radars, firing ranges, antennas, and ammunition depots scattered throughout our country is neither a neutral fact nor mere “international collaboration”: it is a true occupation of the territory, which drains resources, devastates the environment, militarizes entire regions, and turns Italy into a war platform serving imperialist interests. For this reason, mobilizing against U.S. and NATO bases today means concretely fighting against war, against the high cost of living, against the repression of dissent, and against the transformation of our country into a target and accomplice of the military raids carried out by Washington and its allies.
It is within this framework that the dossier on U.S.-NATO installations in Italy is situated—a tool that provides the figures on the occupation of our country and stands in continuity and dialogue with the work of the many organizations and individuals who struggle and make what they learn available to the community.
3. Workers also took the floor in the streets on April 4. There were several speeches by workers denouncing their companies’ involvement in the dirty dealings of the warmongers. We are proud that workers participate in our mobilizations, and this must become increasingly the case. We must not leave the working class in the hands of warmongers, speculators, and the institutions and authorities that carry out their directives. We support workers in every workplace to build organizations capable of demanding rights and wages, defending their jobs, and fighting against World War III. The workers who take the lead in doing so will serve as an example, just as the CALP in Genoa did for last fall’s mobilizations.
4. Italy’s withdrawal from NATO and the achievement of national sovereignty are goals that can only be attained through popular mobilization. Only popular mobilization can free Italy from NATO and the U.S. protectorate. Liberation from NATO is a process that must be carried out through popular mobilization, through the struggle to implement Article 11 of the Constitution… This is the perspective that gives substance to every argument, every hope, and every ambition to leave NATO. The struggle for the implementation of Article 11 of the Constitution was the rallying point for the hundreds of people who took to the streets on April 4: from committees and organizations fighting against war to grassroots unions, from Catholic associations to Palestinian ones, from parties and organizations that call themselves communist to local and civic groups. The substantive application of Article 11 of the Constitution implies and coincides with Italy’s withdrawal from NATO. Since its inception (December 2024), the National No NATO Coordination has been committed to the struggle to implement Article 11 of the Constitution. A vision of this kind requires the implementation of steps and milestones (initiatives, campaigns, etc.) aimed at weakening the stranglehold with which NATO subjugates our country: withdrawal of Italian contingents abroad, cuts to funding for the war industry, application of Italian law to foreign military personnel serving in Italy, closure of military firing ranges, reclamation of territories polluted by military bases, conversion of the war industry, declassification of all secret military agreements between Italy and the U.S., recognition as war victims of all civilians and military personnel who died as a result of activities carried out at U.S.-NATO bases, demilitarization of schools and universities, abolition of the “security decrees” against democratic freedoms.
5. Continue to be steadfastly united to build popular mobilization against the Third World War.The day of mobilization on April 4 confirms that we must continue to foster joint actions among the many different popular organizations; we must continue to connect the various struggles, enabling each organization to learn from and teach others, and to support one another. Nothing new: our spirit of unity counters the competition and sectarianism that still persist among the popular forces driving the broader anti-war movement. But after April 4, 2026, we say this more strongly than before: there are many differences among those who mobilized on this day, but we can fight united against the common enemy: the occupiers labeled USA-EU-ZIONISTS-NATO.
From these five issues, a line of immediate action.
The squares and mobilizations of April 25 must serve to truly liberate us from today’s occupying forces!
On April 25, let’s take to the streets, mobilize, and coordinate all our forces. Let us draw strength from the necessity and awareness that today, just as 81 years ago, we must free ourselves from the occupier—and that today the occupiers are the US, the EU, the Zionists, and NATO!
In the squares on April 25, let’s all shout together: ITALY OUT OF NATO, NATO OUT OF ITALY!
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