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FROM GAZA TO THE BLACK WAVE, CORBYN AND MANIFESTIVAL GUESTS OFFER A
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Giuliano Santoro
October 14, 2025
Il Manifesto Global
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_ We do not want to conform to a world of cruelty and hatred. This
generation must be aware of its own strength and assert its democratic
tradition. We must remember what we are capable of when we organize. _


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The high number of participants was striking enough, with 600 people
crammed into the Palladium theater in Rome and several hundred more
watching on a large screen outside. But so was the intensity: two
jam-packed hours of discussion about war, genocide, Europe, and the
forms of fascism to be fought.

Andrea Fabozzi, editor-in-chief of il manifesto, and Lorenza Ghidini,
director of Radio Popolare, moderated the event. Irene Montero, an MEP
and leader from Spain’s Podemos party, opened the proceedings, and
one could not start with anything else but Gaza: “Anyone with a
shred of humanity must be glad for the truce, but we must also ask
where it came from,” she said. “From the resistance of the
Palestinian people and the mobilization of international civil
society. The lesson is that mobilization works. Now we must redouble
our efforts. We must not stop watching over Gaza; we must return to
the streets until Palestine is free.” Trump’s plan, Montero added,
is a “colonial plan of real estate, business, and colonization”
because “it does not speak of rights or self-determination.”

The floor was then turned over to Jeremy Corbyn. “We need
uncomfortable reflections, like those at your festival,” he began.
“On Saturday, we had our 32nd national demonstration; 600,000 to
700,000 people marched to the US embassy in London. It was the single
voice of a people made up of different religions and ethnicities,
demanding that the descendants of the 1948 Nakba not be forgotten, and
that their right of return not be forgotten.” He, too, insisted that
“the struggle is not over.” When Ghidini asked him about Tony
Blair’s role in Gaza, he replied that the fact that Blair has any
role at all is “simply shameful,” after he used “a lie to drag
us into the war in Iraq.”

MEP Manon Aubry of La France Insoumise said that the EU “has done
nothing and will one day be judged an accomplice to the genocide in
Gaza.” She pointed to the 90 packages of sanctions issued against
Russia, contrasting them with the lack of action against Israel: “Is
the life of a Ukrainian worth more than that of a Palestinian? These
double standards are demolishing international law.” In France, she
noted, the recognition of the Palestinian state was likewise the
result of two years of struggle. “We have looked to your
mobilization as a source of hope in a fascist country,” Aubry
continued, “and this hope comes from the youth. A generation between
18 and 30 has discovered politics through the Palestinian question.”

Germany’s Die Linke party participated via video link: “The right
has no vision for the future. It always goes after the same scapegoats
and defends privilege. This isn’t a historical accident; it’s a
consequence of the system we are in. Our task is to shift the hatred
away from the people next to us and direct it toward those at the top.
To do that, we need to build bridges between countries and between the
different struggles against oppression.”

At this point, Jeremy Corbyn posed the fateful question: will the
Manifestival happen again next year? Yes, of course it will.

“We do not want to conform to a world of cruelty and hatred,”
Montero added. “This generation must be aware of its own strength
and assert its democratic tradition. Our governments are putting
Europe on a dead-end path. We must remember what we are capable of
when we organize. A year ago, who would have imagined so many
demonstrations for the Palestinian people?”

Corbyn stressed the link between information and power. “The big
corporate TV channels spread supremacist messages,” he explained,
“but we must not underestimate our own ability to communicate by
becoming obsessed with the mainstream. We must ensure our message gets
through.”

So, what is to be done in the face of the “black wave” of the far
right? “Fascists exist in every country, including my own,” the
London MP said. “They didn’t disappear after the Second World War;
they’ve just found a new way to reemerge by targeting migrants. It
makes no sense for Nigel Farage to blame the people landing at Calais
for the poverty of his constituents. But the media talks about him as
if he’s the most intelligent man in the world.” 

What, then, is the answer? “You respond to the far right by
defending the communities that have lost power. I am disgusted when I
see asylum seekers locked up in reception centers. They are poor,
desperate people, confused by the horrors they have fled.”

Corbyn’s own story is an example: “I was suspended from the party
and removed from the parliamentary group on shameful and unfounded
charges. I had no right of appeal. That’s why I decided to run as an
independent, and my constituency chose to re-elect me to parliament.
And now we have founded YourParty.UK. We will hold our founding
congress in Liverpool at the end of November, and we will be part of
the family of European left parties, challenging the hegemony of the
right and the media. And we will win.”

Aubry highlighted the parallels between France and Italy. “We are
facing a serious crisis,” she argued. “This crisis has one person
responsible: Macron, who lost the legislative elections. He lost, but
he continues to demand that he choose the government. Because the left
won the French elections; we are the largest group in the National
Assembly. And we won by proposing a very clear, radical program. We
proposed unity for the left on clear and radical grounds.”

Aubry pointed out that we are facing a process of recomposition of
political forces that is leading the right and far right to unite in
the name of authoritarianism, austerity and anti-environmental
policies. She didn’t spare Italy’s Democratic Party and the
European social democrats either, asking just what they think they
accomplished by supporting von der Leyen for the EU Commission. 

“We must be united, but not at the expense of our radicalism,
otherwise the people will remain disappointed.” In short, this
isn’t about celebrating the past or waiting for the future.
“Resistance is now, and it must be organized. At the European level,
too.”

Originally published at
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on 2025-10-14

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