After a most socially cold autumn and winter, with no big strike called by mainstream unions and few occasions for autonomous movements to challenge the Renzi government spell on the country, some early cracks started to show up in the Democratic Party (PD) narrative and bloc. The social onslaught against squatters (Piano Casa, canceling rights […]
It is not by any chance that the need of connecting with the French mobilizations is felt with greater urgency in the field of the logistics struggles: on one hand the migrant workforce looks to a transnational perspective in order to acquire strength, on the other hand the recent cycles of strike featured the answer […]
From inquiries, the first trial by the judiciary led in 1979 to the condemnation of some exponents of the Brescian far-right. Then, acquittal came; a second branch of inquiry, raised in 1984 after revelations by some informers, put under accusation other representatives of the subversive right; once again, the accused were acquitted in 1987 (first-degree) […]
On that day in Rome the Radical Party organized a demonstration in Piazza Navona, in order to celebrate the third anniversary of the victory in the referendum on divorce. By defying the demonstration ban for those outside the institutional circle – which was imposed by Cossiga and warmly greeted on the axis of “historical compromise” […]
What are the principles that inspire your party? We have a socialist legacy, which begins with Marx arriving to Lenin. We are fighting for a socialist society. Socialism is our primary interest. The Soviet Union, the major historical socialist experience, has nonetheless made its mistakes. With that experience, the ideology was controlled by the state; […]
The news that police killed a comrade swiftly spread through. The Radio Alice independent grassroots radio broadcasts it at 1.30pm. From that moment onwards, the university area is crawling with comrades, entrances to the zone are shut down in order to avoid new provocations and assemblies are held in all faculties. As the assemblies end, […]
In a militarized Venice, between no-go areas and massive depolyment of police agents, the Notav – NoGrandiNavi demonstration against the Renzi-Hollande summit started around 10 am from Santa Lucia station to Punta della Dogana. It was an important day for all those committees that fight against the great works, which arrived today in Venice in […]
The European Union is planning the TTIP treaty (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) with the United States, in order to enable the economic elite to accumulate more capital, and make off with public assets. As for education, they aim to go on privatising public education, and set it aside for commercial interests. In addition to […]
To affirm – as former diplomat and think-tanker Sergio Romano does on the pages of the Corriere della Sera daily – that we will never know what happened to Giulio Regeni in Cairo is a bit reductive, as broken bones, electrocution and cigarettes being extinguished on his body – practices that always mark the routine […]
In the last two months of 2015, in Egypt there were 340 forced disappearances. On average, three persons per day are abducted by Egyptian secret services and police in order to be brought in various areas of the country – where they suffer torture, rape and violence. As some activists denounced at the end of […]