24th August, Rome Imagine a sharp razor on which you must keep the balance untill the next elections. For one more year. Where everything that happens on a national and european level it’s cause of contention and clash for a unique reason: to win or to die. On this razors there are two candidates: the […]

About a voter out of two did not go to the polls for electing regional governors: this trend steadily consolidated through the years, with a net 10% average voters’ loss in comparison to previous elections (2010) and expresses a rising discontent about the Italian ruling class, and its forms of representation and cronyism. There are […]

In the many rebel and mestizo squares, packed with thousands of men and women that organize themselves in order to resist the crisis, the call “One great work only: house and income for everyone!” was strongly echoed. It is not a slogan but a practice that lives in the anti-eviction pickets, in the defense from […]

As the Lupi minister himself was forced to resign after his associate Ettore Incalza – a longtime state manager which did supervise great unnecessary works’ projects such as the TAV high-speed railway – was prosecuted for corruption, a second march of dignity approaches in Bologna and other initiatives are developing in other cities, to reaffirm […]

Meanwhile there’s a caretaker President of the Republic, as Giorgio Napolitano resigned, and the Parliament passed the new Italicum electoral system, scheduled to take effect in 2016. Housing rights movements’ struggle is fighting against evictions and for the right for homeless and poors to regain basic needs in front of the laws made for speculators […]

Two weeks ago in Tor Sapienza – a neglected, working-class neighborhood at the eastern borders of Rome – a migrant care center (Sistema di protezione per richiedenti asilo e rifugiati-SPRAR) was assaulted with clubs and firecrackers by enraged residents over a spate of thefts and an alleged rape attempt by a migrant. That center was […]

The first priority is to put into focus the social and economic situation at hand and its implications for our activities in all the Italian cities. The deterioration of the material conditions of life in vast sections of the population calls for responding to these needs with an active social representation. The growing intolerance towards […]

The accumulation of energies and political work started up in order to organize the protest days, – starting from the widely attended national assembly of May 31 – represents for all of us a precious legacy, not to be wasted. With this frame of mind, last Sunday, on June 22, about a hundred of comrades, […]

The second part of the European semester and the “legacy” issue. If we want to think ill, the willingness to postpone a hot topic as youth unemployment emerges. Crisis’ hairpin turns are nothing but finished and within the institutional framework there is a lack of ideas about youth future that wouldn’t be really unpopular. At […]