Meschi, Alberto 1879-1958 A short biography of Alberto Meschi, great figure of Italian anarchism and still remembered fondly in Carrara.
Her whole life ahead, by Paolo Virzi (2008) Story of a 25 year-old woman working in a call-centre, the movie is a grotesque and tragic-comic depiction of Italian precarious workers …
Anti-fascist demonstration in Milan Yesterday, 5th April 2009, a conference held by Forza Nuova, the Italian movement of the far-Right, took place in Milan.
Rome: 2.7 million people demonstrate against the crisis According to the Italian union Cgil, today - 4th April - 2.7 million people marched in the streets…
Italy: the Wave, Cobas and social centres against the G14 Last Saturday - 28th March 2009 - sixty thousand people walked into the main squares of Rome against…
Student protests across Europe As neo-liberal education reforms are planned across Europe, students in the continent have been taking to the streets leading to battles with…
Institutionalization from below: The unions and social movements - 1970s Italy The chapter of Robert Lumley's excellent book on the mass struggles in Italy of the 60s and 70s…
The working class struggle against the crisis: self-reduction of prices in Italy - Bruno Ramirez Bruno Ramirez's analysis of the Italian working class' response to the economic…
Right to strike under threat in Italy The Italian government is in the process of examining a new bill which will restrict the right to call a strike. The bill might become soon a law…
Demonstrations in Milan against anti-migrant laws Last weekend in Milan 30,000 people demonstrated with CGIL union against xenophobic anti-migrant laws recently introduced in Italy. These laws…
Hundreds of migrants break out of Italian detention centre 700 migrants have broken down fences and escaped from the Lampedusa detention centre on the…
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi might lose immunity During the summer of 2008, Italian opposition party Italia Dei Valori lead by Antonio Di Pietro…