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The world antifascist festival takes place in la Carlota convention center in Venezuela... Our correspondent Yunus Soner gives us more details in the  following report

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00:00And as the World Antifascist Festival takes place in La Carlota Convention Center in Venezuela,

00:06our correspondent Yunus Soner gives us more details in the following report.

00:14The Antifascist International gathered here in Caracas

00:18has convened more than 2,000 delegates from all over the world,

00:22from five different countries, and some of them are coming from Europe,

00:27which is an interesting space.

00:29About that, we have a guest here, Michela Arricale, who is from Italy.

00:34Can you introduce yourself?

00:36Yes, thank you, thank you. I'm Michela Arricale.

00:38I'm a lawyer from Italy.

00:40I'm a co-president of an association called CRED,

00:44the C-R-E-D, the Center for Research and Elaboration for Democracy.

00:48We are a group of lawyers that study institutions

00:54just to check, to fight the fascist line that penetrates our institutions

01:04in Italy and also in Europe.

01:06You know what is happening now in Italy with our far-right government

01:11that are trying to change the constitution,

01:14they are trying to change our constitution.

01:16I think that this is the most beautiful constitution in the world

01:22built after the Second World War and built all against the fascist idea.

01:31Italy, the Republic of Italy, the Democratic Republic of Italy,

01:35exists, as you know, just because it's anti-fascist.

01:40If Italy embraces fascism, it will destroy itself, as we know.

01:47So we are here to make an effort to find a way to fight fascism in Italy

01:56and all over the world, because also this is the focus of our international fight

02:03between two visions of a new world.

02:09A world, a fascist world, where there are exploiters and a democratic world,

02:18because democracy is possible only in a socialist environment.

02:24Everything else is not democracy.

02:27It's a kind of democracy, but in the crisis moment

02:33and to turn in a fascist style of government, as happened in Europe and in Italy.

02:42Can you describe me a little bit concretely what is going on in Italy

02:47regarding the neo-fascism, it's called, in a short way?

02:53It's running. It's not going slow.

02:59It's something that happened very fast.

03:04And they are trying to change our constitution,

03:08to make, to delay every democratic power,

03:15like the parliamentary power, they want to make an executive power.

03:21We have a strong independent magistratura.

03:29Magistrate, magistrate, ok.

03:32And they want to put a judge under the government.

03:38They control the press, they control the media,

03:42they are making some law against the political opponent.

03:51They are making the law against the demonstration outside.

03:57They decide to make a penalty,

04:05to make the straddle block, the typical way of battle of the workers.

04:13In Italy now it's a penalty that you can go to jail for this.

04:21Because they don't want to recognize you as an opponent, or a political opponent.

04:28They want to identify you as an enemy.

04:33We call it right of the enemy, penal right of the enemy,

04:40that's against democracy, that's against every idea of equal rights.

04:46Because they say, if you are with government, you are ok.

04:50If you are against the government, you are a criminal.

04:54You are not a political opponent, but just a criminal.

04:57And they treat you in this way.

05:00This is a general tendency in Europe, right?

05:03The turn towards right wing, authoritarian states.

05:08How far is that connected with the research of neo-imperialism or new aggressiveness?

05:15Until 2020, the economic crisis of the West,

05:29the economic crisis of the West,

05:32is when so far they need war to relocate power.

05:39They are trying to defend their space with the war.

05:46And in the warfare, there is no space for democracy.

05:52Because in Italy, for example, people are against the war,

05:56are against Israel's genocide, are against the NATO war in Russia, against Russia.

06:03But we have no voice on this topic.

06:08If we say this, we risk to go under the judge.

06:13Because in the crisis, in the warfare, everything that goes against the government is an enemy.

06:23So if you say, I don't want war, I want a peaceful war, I want a democracy war,

06:28they say, oh, so you are an enemy with Putin, you are an enemy with Maduro,

06:33so you are also my enemy.

06:35And they block it.

06:37The media shut up you.

06:40If you are weak, probably they train you.

06:47For example, in the context of the genocide in Palestine,

06:54we have a lot of trials against activists that say, stop the genocide, just to say it.

07:04Or we have trials against militants that say, you media, national media,

07:12you are not covering this topic right, because you are shadowbombing the real state of things.

07:24And they try to, because they say, no, you are with the enemy, you are racist,

07:30because you are against Israel, no?

07:33This kind of thing.

07:35And until two years ago, it was just words, no?

07:42They call you as an enemy, they make a lot of media on you as the enemy.

07:49Now it's changing everything.

07:52It's changing everything.

07:54Of course.

07:55For the worst.

07:58Because it's not only the propaganda against you.

08:05It's also the new law they are building to punish you for this.

08:10So, and then you are here in the anti-fascist international.

08:15How do you see it working?

08:17It has gathered already in November, now this is another convention.

08:22How do you see it evolving?

08:24What is the expectation of this congress?

08:27I hope that we can build a strong net.

08:32A strong net because the topic is the same.

08:37The fight for the peace, for a new peaceful world, for a multipolar world is common for us.

08:45And only if we stand together against the power of the West, the imperial West, we can fight them.

08:54Because they are the less, they are the few.

08:57They have economic power, they have political power in this moment, but they are few.

09:03We are the most, so we have power because we are the people.

09:09Thank you very much.

09:11As you see, the anti-fascist international reaches out into Europe and into the basic foundational issues of Europe.

09:23In this case, Italy, where the established democratic order is being contested by neo-fascist movements,

09:31strong neo-fascist movements and the solidarity against these neo-fascist movements proves vital

09:39not only for Italy, but globally, as our guest told us, to maintain peace and to establish a truly multipolar order.

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