Italy's protest began with a budget item: the diesel excise tax expired on October 5, bringing prices back to €2.50 per liter. Truck drivers, farmers, and fishermen—a proletarianized productive petty bourgeoisie—blocked roads, joined later by a disorganized, very young urban movement whose violence risks collaboration in response. The state responded with its eighth security package in four years, and found resources for the soldiers within forty-eight hours that it could not find for the tax rebate. Peace, energy sovereignty and social justice are the same demand seen from three angles. Diesel is the point where oil's global rent moves along the logistics chain until it is passed down to those at the end. Lorenzo Maria Pacini writes Stay tuned.

Italy's protest began with a budget item: the diesel excise tax expired on October 5, bringing prices back to €2.50 per liter. Truck drivers, farmers, and fishermen—a proletarianized productive petty bourgeoisie—blocked roads, joined later by a disorganized, very young urban movement whose violence risks collaboration in response. The state responded with its eighth security package in four years, and found resources for the soldiers within forty-eight hours that it could not find for the tax rebate. Peace, energy sovereignty and social justice are the same demand seen from three angles. Diesel is the point where oil's global rent moves along the logistics chain until it is passed down to those at the end. Lorenzo Maria Pacini writes Stay tuned.