Translation by anarkismo.net An unprecedented situation is taking place in the city of Port Said – complete self-management, a rejection of everything that authority represents. It is a situation that the main actors in the Egyptian struggle at this time – the workers – are trying to reproduce in other cities too. Port […]
Original document here For a snapshot of the crisis The world appears more and more multi-polar and in the grip of latent tensions of war, with an underlying crisis whose intensity is a known and by now systemic fact and no longer even doubted by the professionals of mainstream communication. Still, we […]
Now that the ballots are closed, too many words are being wasted on commenting the results as a sort of upheval although it was easily predictable. This country is clearly ungovernable or, in other words, this political system is failing – it is imploding. One thing is certain: a great refusal of the political institutions […]
The Muos (Mobile User Objective System) event is bringing along plenty of political matters. Or, more precisely, the social opposition to the building of the Muos in South-Eastern Sicily is raising a large number of matters, and it is gaining force in its development over the years. Now that this issue has (thanks to […]
Talk by Laboratorio Occupato Crash social centre at Counterpower In The Crisis, national meeting of Italian autonomous collectives, activists and social centres in Bologna last October 13-14th – original text here In order to introduce the workshop day of our meeting with the talk dedicated to “Trans-national movements in the capitalist crisis. The provincialization […]
Talk by media activist Infofreeflow focus group at Counterpower In The Crisis, national meeting of Italian autonomous collectives, activists and social centres in Bologna last October 13-14th We devised this presentation in an effort to share as widely as possibile a series of political and cultural indications stemming from from the last two years […]
In the past year 2012 Italy experienced a revival of social conflict, from the No Tav (high-speed railway) popular movement in Piedmont to the Ikea logistics’ workers pickets, from the secondary school occupations to the European social strike of November 14 and beyond. A new generation of youths, students, migrants, precarious workers and exploited […]
The direct action, which was carried out by the workers with the participation of the rank-and-file trade union SI Cobas and the Bolognese antagonist student and worker collectives, was aimed to compel IKEA to stop workers’ exploitation, respect working timetables, equally share extra workload, pay the due salaries, guaranteeing the right to organize and reinstate […]
Original statement here The jolt in Europe of the 14th of November served to warm up an autumn that foreshadowed itself as once again restrained by the breaks applied from the government of the professors. Yet the crisis, in all of its ambivalence, is the bringer of a steady power of transformation and unpredictability; […]
Original statement here The day of November 14 has seen demonstrations against the austerity policies set by Europe in 87 different Italian cities. Students and workers flooded streets and squares, re-appropriating themselves of the right to strike in the wake of the European mobilizations, by strongly challenging the technocratic government that is stealing […]