In the early afternoon Magat – a 53-years old Senegalese worker – panic-striken, ran away. Pursued by some agents of Roma Capitale metropolitan police, they catched up with him, tripped him and let him fall down on the ground. As he fell, Magat hit his head and died in a pool of blood in via […]

We are living an age of clash in which one needs to pay more attention to the ground on which opposition is given rather than to the participating factions. The political identities – starting from the right/left and progressives/liberals divisions and so on – aren’t just a cover but old and misleading categories, unable to […]

  Florence, 12-04-2017       1 Les chefs des gouvernements de l’UE se sont réunis le 25 mars à Rome, en Italie, pour le 60e anniversaire des traités de Rome. Le contre-sommet a été marqué par des provocations policières sans précedants. Le tronçon des groupes autonomes contre la UE a ete encerclé par les […]

Dax is a militant of the O.R.So. social centre, he is 26 and has a daughter. Many police and carabinieri squads are the first to reach the place and will contribute to delaying assistance, by obstructing passage in the street. Davide and two comrades are eventually brought to the San Paolo hospital Emergency Room where, […]

March 8 in Pisa was a combative one. At the end of a most participated cortege and in the context of a most intense day that started at 5.30 am with the strike and the blockades of the Cisanello hospital janitors, in the late evening a building belonging to the municipality, that had been left […]

A political footnote on populism: against a false alternative “The familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown”(G.W.F. Hegel) The Trump victory – after the Brexit, with the evident crisis of European unity and the spreading of anti-elite mobilizations and feelings in the West – elicited two opposite and specular feedbacks in the Italian left […]

IIn these last days we are witnessing an attempt of escalating a longtime-sought attempt by Bologna’s governance (University, City Council, Police Department): to normalize the city’s university area social and political life, always a hindrance for those eager to dictate an absolute power on the students’ life. To attend lessons, consume in the venues, go […]

With Renzi being put aside, continuity with the former government is guaranteed not merely on a political level, but also by the pivotal character of some of its key members, like Poletti, Padoan, Boschi and Gentiloni himself [former ministers of Labour, Economy, Reforms and Foreign Affairs who retained their posts or got promoted – t.n.]. […]

This Infoaut editorial came out on December 5, right after the defeat at the constitutional referendum of the Yes option, who was championed by former President of the Council of Ministers Matteo Renzi – in an effort to deepen penetration of neoliberal policies and dismantling of the xx-century welfare state model in the country. It […]