Uruguay

A decree has been issued to the 25,000 drivers, which will treat any further strike action as a crime with legal consequences. The President of the Inter-Union of Land Transport Professionals has said the strike will continue regardless.

The drivers are striking over plans to increase the cost of fuel, and observers have warned that the government decree will only worsen the conflict.

Luce Fabbri, the daughter of the outstanding Italian anarchist Luigi Fabbri, was a militant of great calibre herself. Born in Rome on 2nd July 1908, she was brought up in a free and culturally stimulating environment.

A clear-sighted and very astute intellectual, author of essays crucial to my libertarian understanding of the great political upheavals of the 20th century (such as the Russian revolution, the fascist seizure of power in Italy). A generous and tireless anarchist militant, he knew imprisonment and internment, physical assault at the hands of fascist thugs and was driven into exile.