A bilateral meeting was held via video conference between a delegation from the Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism (PADS), a communist party, and a delegation from the Communist Front (Italy).
After fraternal greetings, the two delegations presented the history, activities, and ideological direction of their respective parties. They reaffirmed their commitment to Marxism-Leninism, proletarian internationalism, and the need to strengthen cooperation between communist and workers’ parties in the struggle against capitalism, imperialism, and opportunism.
Discussions focused on the situation of the international communist and working-class movement. The two delegations emphasized that reformism, social democracy, and opportunism have contributed to disorienting the working-class movement, weakening the communist parties, and favoring capital’s offensives against workers’ rights. They reaffirmed the need to rebuild a strong communist movement on Marxist-Leninist foundations, strengthen the ideological struggle against all forms of class collaboration, and develop working-class unity based on a revolutionary and internationalist orientation.
The Algerian delegation presented its analysis of capitalist development in Algeria. It highlighted that hydrocarbons remain the primary sector of capital accumulation and that contradictions among various factions of the bourgeoisie manifest in the struggle for control over the state apparatus, energy rents, and key sectors of the economy. Despite diversification policies, the economy remains heavily dependent on hydrocarbon exports as well as technological, financial, and commercial relations with major capitalist centers. Unemployment, job insecurity, social inequalities, and shortcomings in industrial development were analyzed as expressions of the contradictions inherent in the capitalist mode of production.
The Italian delegation presented its analysis of the economic, social, and political situation in Italy. It emphasized that the rising cost of living, inflation, increasing job insecurity, attacks on collective bargaining agreements, privatizations, the decline of public services, and rising military spending reflect the needs of Italian monopoly capital and the Italian state’s commitments within the European Union and NATO. It also highlighted that, faced with the deepening crisis of capitalism and the rise of social and political struggles—particularly proletarian revolutionary currents—the bourgeoisie is developing a strategy of preventive counter-revolution, combining the strengthening of repressive measures, restrictions on democratic freedoms, the criminalization of struggle movements, and the intensification of anti-communist propaganda. Both delegations reaffirmed that the interests of the working class are incompatible with those of capital and that only the independent struggle against monopolies, imperialist unions, and the power of capital can pave the way toward socialism.
The two delegations examined developments in North Africa and the inter-imperialist contradictions affecting the region. They assessed that competition among the United States, the European Union, China, Russia, Turkey, and the Gulf monarchies reflects rivalries between capitalist powers for control over markets, natural resources, strategic infrastructure, and trade routes. They reaffirmed that the working class must not support any imperialist camp, but rather develop its own struggle against capital and its alliances.
The exchange of views also addressed the question of Western Sahara. Both parties reaffirmed their support for the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination, emphasizing that this issue must be considered independently of the interests of various bourgeoisies and the imperialist rivalries in the region.
Regarding Palestine, both delegations condemned the political, diplomatic, economic, and military support provided by the Italian state to Israel within the framework of its imperialist alliances. They reaffirmed their full solidarity with the Palestinian people’s struggle against occupation, colonization, and all forms of imperialist domination, as well as their right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent state.
Both parties praised the numerous solidarity mobilizations organized by Italian workers, class-oriented labor unions, popular organizations, and Italian communists in support of the Palestinian people. They particularly highlighted the actions of port workers who refused to load or transit shipments of weapons destined for Israel. They also emphasized that major popular demonstrations were organized and led by the Front of Communist Youth, affiliated with the Communist Front (Italy), particularly in the capital, Rome, contributing to strengthening solidarity with the Palestinian people and mobilizing opposition to the Italian government’s imperialist policies. Both delegations stressed the fundamental role of communist youth in developing the class consciousness of new generations, as well as that of class-oriented labor unions in the independent organization of workers, the strengthening of the struggle against monopolies, and the defense of working-class interests against employers and the bourgeois state.
A significant portion of the meeting was dedicated to economic and political relations between Italy and Algeria. The two delegations analyzed the growth of Italian capital investments, particularly in the energy, infrastructure, industrial, agricultural, telecommunications, and new technology sectors. They paid special attention to the role of the ENI group and the Mattei Plan for Africa, analyzing it as a tool of Italian capital’s strategy aimed at strengthening its position in inter-imperialist competition, securing its energy supply, and expanding investment opportunities across the African continent.
Both parties emphasized that official rhetoric regarding “strategic partnership,” “co-development,” or “win-win cooperation” is not able to conceal the class interests that dictate economic relations between capitalist states. They recalled that these relations align with the laws of development of monopoly capitalism, characterized by the concentration of capital, capital export, competition among monopolies, and inter-imperialist rivalries.
Finally, both delegations reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening bilateral relations, advancing theoretical and political exchanges, consolidating ties among communist parties, communist youth, and the class-oriented labor union movement, and deepening cooperation in studying the transformations of contemporary capitalism, the contradictions of the international imperialist system, and the prospects for revolutionary struggle. They reiterated that the prospect of socialism—based on social ownership of the means of production, scientific central economic planning, and working-class power—remains the only alternative to the contradictions of the capitalist system.
The meeting took place in an atmosphere of militant fraternity, constructive dialog, and internationalist solidarity. Both delegations agreed to continue regular exchanges, strengthen political and ideological cooperation, and develop joint initiatives on key issues facing the international communist and working-class movement.
