Portrait of Italian May Day 2014 On May Day, as in many other places around the world, thousands of people gathered in squares and streets all over Italy to celebrate…
Federico Aldrovandi’s killers receive standing ovation from police union Federico Aldrovandi’s parents and friends have become used to the noisy actions of the Coisp police…
Selections from the prison notebooks - Antonio Gramsci Almost five hundred pages of Gramsci's writings on history, culture, politics, and philosophy. From…
Narrow-minded? Bologna’s PD council tries to evict Atlantide social centre Update on the situation of the Atlantide social centre in Bologna, which has been there for over 15…
Italy: Renzi government reforms jobs and cuts rights At first glance, Giuliano Poletti, Minister of Labour and Social Policy in the Renzi government, could look like an old-fashioned left-wing…
Political turmoil inside CGIL The CGIL is Italy’s largest confederation of trade unions (secretary: Susanna Camusso) and includes as a member FIOM, the metalworkers’…
Killer coal-burning plant switched off in Vado Ligure, Italy A coal burning factory in northern Italy, which caused pollution linked to the deaths of hundreds of…
Errico Malatesta: his life and ideas Italian anarchist-communist, militant, and critic of syndicalism, Errico Malatesta is one of the most influential figures in the history of…
The social war in memory - Miguel Amorós The Preface to the 1999 Spanish edition of Los Incontrolados: Manuscrito encontrado en Vitoria (“Los Incontrolados: Manuscript Found in Vitoria”)…
Bologna activists banished from the city It sounds like news from a distant time, way back in Italian history, but it actually happened in 2014. On 6 March, 12 activists were forced to…
Italy does not tolerate organised protest: students prosecuted An update on on changes to higher education and student protests in Italy as well as the government…
Ancona’s centre-left city council evicts housing occupation On 5 February 2014 Ancona’s centre-left city council evicted refugees and homeless people from the…