In the context of a deepening housing crisis, Italy’s movements are becoming increasingly united in their opposition to neoliberalism and austerity. If there is one day that can symbolically represent the current struggle against austerity and neoliberalism in Italy it must be the 19th of October 2013 — the day of the General Uprising (“sollevazione […]

 S’il fallait choisir une seule journée d’action pour représenter symboliquement le combat qui est actuellement mené en Italie contre l’austérité et le néolibéralisme, ce serait celle du 19 octobre 2013 – le jour du « soulèvement général » contre l’austérité. Ce jour-là, derrière une bannière proclamant « Un seul grand projet : un revenu et […]

The neo-ottoman project of Turkey underwent a serious crisis during the Gezi Resistance and is now facing another crisis. If Gezi was a sudden cardiac arrest in the heart of Islamic neoliberalism (which it never recovered from), the past weeks political crisis in the corridors of the élite has been a concussion of its brain. We remember how […]

On one side, there are the Institutions. A Presidency of the Republic that in front of the crisis unceremoniously throws away the ceremonial mask and grabs the scepter of power. By forming and protecting the Letta Government (as the former Monti government, and various commissions of ‘sages’) with the sole goal to ratify the policies […]

After thursday’s occupation of Social Log a new day of action unraveled in Bologna. A mestizo and wildcat march fully representing the Bolognese movements’ composition took the streets yesterday, bringing forward the needs and desires of the various social actors participating in it. Who decides on public spending? The urgence to answer this question from […]

A public presentation assembly is scheduled for this afternoon at 6 pm, and a benefit event for the struggling logistics’ workers of the Bolognese area will follow.   As the leaflet distributed to the people after the occupation reads: In the downtown of Bologna there is a new place at the disposal of the last, […]

Besides the reasons that ever since back the opposition to the unnecessary great work (environmental and public health concerns, militarization of the territory – with more soldiers deployed in the valley than in the concurrent Italian imperialist mission in Herat, Afghanistan – senseless squandering of public money in times of crisis, alleged mafia affiliation and […]

This day of mobilization was set by the StudAut assembly last November 2-3 in Pisa, a moment of open debate and decision among Italian high school students, completely free from the grip of parties and representative politics’ institutions, and antagonist to them. The greatest political development of this November 15, in addition of consolidating their […]

Original statement in Italian here   The two days of movement assemblies held in Rome at the University “La Sapienza” and at the squatted house in Via delle Province shared an extremely positive evaluation about the power of the movement expressed around and into the week of mobilization that led to 19o, even in the […]