On this page, you will find the details pertaining to Mediterranea Saving Humans from the full report on the World Meeting of Popular Movements from 2025. From the table of contents below, you can jump to other parts of the report.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Executive Summary
Introduction
The Venue
The Participants
- Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra (MST)
- Mediterranea Saving Humans
- Union de Trabajadores de la Economia Popular (UTEP)
- La Via Campesina
- PICO California
- Asociación de Víctimas de Accidentes y Enfermedades Laborales de Andalucía (AVAELA)
- Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM)
- Comite de Unidad Campesina (CUC)
- Coordinador Nacional Agrario CNA
- FRENADESO
- CENARAB
- Coordinadora Social Shishigang (CSS)
The Final Declaration
Papal Condemnations of both Communism and Socialism
Conclusion
Mediterranea Saving Humans
Another organization on the Organizing Committee that we covered in our previous report is Mediterranea Saving Humans, founded and led by Luca Casarini. Casarini founded Mediterranea in 2018 and first participated in the WMPM in 2021. In 2022, Mediterranea came under investigation by the Italian Judiciary regarding massive contributions the organization received from various organizations. Revealed in the article is that Mediterranea was founded with contributions from the leadership of Communist-based organizations Sinistra Italia and SEL-Sinistra ecologia e libertà (information on those organizations to follow).
In 2020, Pope Francis sent Casarini a handwritten letter expressing support for his work saying, “Count on me.” In 2023, Pope Francis invited Casarini to attend the Synod on Synodality as one of eight non-voting guests. Just three weeks after his election to the papacy, Pope Leo XIV received a delegation from Mediterranea Saving Humans – led by Don Mattei Ferrari – in a private audience with other organizations of a similar nature. In December of 2025, Pope Leo XIV made a personal appeal to Italy’s intelligence services after the Italian government hacked Casarini’s phone. Pope Leo said:
It is necessary to monitor rigorously so that confidential information is not used to intimidate, manipulate, blackmail, or discredit the service of politicians, journalists or other actors in civil society.
There is another strange connection with Pope Leo: on 20 April 2026, LifeSiteNews reported about a photograph from 1983 showing Fr. Robert Prevost (who would become Pope Leo) participating in a protest organized by Italian Communist organizations. The source of the photo? Luca Casarini.
Casarini is featured in the official 2025 WMPM video at 2:10.
Casarini is a long-time Marxist agitator who used to lead what was called the White Overalls movement. The movement itself was deeply rooted in autonomist Marxism (also called operaismo or post-operaismo), an anti-authoritarian current of Marxist thought that developed in Italy in the 1960s–1970s and evolved significantly by the 1990s.
Despite espousing a “non-violent” approach, In May of 2001, Casarini read a “Declaration of war” against the G8 summit in Genoa, saying:
From the outskirts of the empire, from the many worlds that resist and grow with the dream of a better existence for all, today we, little rebel subjects, formally declare war on you. It is a choice that you have provoked, because we prefer peace, it is a decision that for us means challenging your arrogance and your strength, but we are obliged to do so.
Shortly after this declaration of war, a string of violent actions from the White Overalls was enacted against the police defending the G8 Summit. Speaking with the media, Casarini recognized that his declaration led to violence, and then acknowledged that this was one of the objectives of the declaration.
In this video, the White Overalls showed up prepared for a physical confrontation with the police, intending to spark a violent confrontation.
In this video of a White Overalls’ confrontation with police, protesters throw rocks and other objects at police before rushing at them, forcing a physical confrontation.
The point is, Casarini’s brand of activism has long followed the playbook of the Communist Revolution, which should not be surprising given his affinity for Karl Marx and Socialism itself.
On 23 March 2014, Casarini posted a message that “Karl Marx was right.”
On 7 May 2018, Casarini wished Karl Marx “happy birthday.”
On 1 May 2017, Casarini took a picture of Communists as he joined in the May Day celebration.
On 5 November 2025, Casarini celebrated the election of openly-professed Socialist, Zohran Mamdani. At the end of his long-winded post, he wrote:
There is someone named Zohran Mamdani, he is a Muslim, socialist, who was elected mayor of the Big Apple by over two million people. Dreaming of a different city, a different world.
Plantedosis is raging. Trump is a fury.
We are happy today. We feel like a multitude, from Porto Empedocle to New York.
Over the years, Casarini has been filmed and photographed as he marched alongside socialist and Communist organizations.
Over the years, Casarini has been a formal member of several Socialist political groups. In March 2014 he ran for public office in the European Parliament as a member of the L’Altra Europa con Tsipras party – a newly-formed political platform built by several Communist organizations, including the Communist Refoundation party and the Italian Communist Party.
On 29 March 2015 he became a member of the national presidency of Sinistra Ecologia Libertà, an offshoot party formed by disgruntled members of the Communist Refoundation Party.
On 27 March 2017, Casarini participated in the eleventh congress of the Communist Refoundation Party.
He joined the constituent process of Sinistra Italiana (SI), a Democratic-Socialist organization, and in 2017 was elected as one of its two regional secretaries.
And to further prove his solidarity with Marxist organizations and ideologies, Casarini’s facebook page is littered with communist organizations, such as Antifa of Monselice, The Communist Party of Crispiano, The Communist Noci Refoundation, (Circoloprcavocata Karlmarx), the Party of the Communist Refoundation of Sesto San Giovanni, Che Guevara Rome, the Young Communists of Naples, and many others.
As if all of this isn’t enough to fully and formally condemn Luca Casarini, barring him from any and all involvement with the Catholic Church, he is also pro-abortion, as indicated on this post from 2014:
He marched in a homosexual pride parade in 2019 while wearing his signature shirt for his organization, Mediterranea Saving Humans.
In fact, Mediterranea Saving Humans had a formal participation in the Pride event by sharing a float with another organization called ARCI.
In another photo from the same day, Casarini was replaced by another member of Mediterranea Saving Humans, wearing an official organizational t-shirt, marching next to a man with breast implants, painted in rainbow colors.
MSH even posted pictures of its own from the Pride event.
And MSH celebrated “Pride” in 2021 …
And in 2023 …
And in 2024, MSH mourned the death of a Polermo Pride columnist, whom they called a “friend of immense value, visionary and revolutionary.”
Finally, while Luca Casarini claims to be working in service to immigrants, he was caught on film speaking derisively and with vulgar language those he claims to be serving.
That Luca Casarini is a Marxist is completely undeniable. His support for abortion and LGBT activism is also on full display. While Luca is careful not to implicate Mediterranea Saving Humans in his ongoing participation in Communist/Socialist political interests, the fact of the matter is that personnel is policy – and as the head of Mediterranea, the heart of the organization will carry with it the Marxist thought of its leader. In fact, this is evident in MSH’s active and virile participation in and celebration of LGBT pride. This is yet another organization – and individual – that has no business being anywhere near any official Catholic function.
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