This morning in the Tuscan city numerous students and precarious workers occupied the entrance of Pisa’s Cassa di Risparmio, a local bank; services were blocked for about an hour, tension culminated with the bank’s directors calling the authorities. In the meantime a banner was affixed on the door and participants in the action blocked the […]
Torino – In the international action days against crisis, welfare cuts and austerity system – the 24, 25, 26 of March- students and temporary workers have decided to take their protest in the places symbol of the financial capitalism and the economy of debt, and responsible for the global economic crisis: the banks. These days […]
Dictator Ben Ali trembled! And he is still trembling if is it true that he parked a jet plane close to the presidential residence of Chartage, which should be ready for an evacuation plan. The revolt stretches its lenght, spreads itself through all the cities and bears down on the regime after 23 years from […]
This question, appearing on most newspapers after every riot, such as the one in Rome on December 14, deserves an answer. Do you want to see what our faces look like, when they are not hidden by scarves, helmets and balaclavas? They are the same faces that pay the rent for your scruffy flats, the […]
The image of the Leaning Tower of Pisa occupied by students traveled the world over, ending up on the BBC and the front page of the Financial Times in a matter of hours. A mirror image was taken a few days later: a besieged Parliament, closed off in their backrooms to approve an unpopular law […]
Lots of marches, demonstrations and solidarity initiatives were called up in Italy in the last three days, in denounciation of the Israeli attack in the night between 30th and 31st May against the seven ships of humanitarian aid of the Freedom Flotilla, the barbaric murder of nineteen activists and the wounding of several others – […]
Fortress Europe is trembling! In the management rooms of politics and business, in those comfortable drawing rooms, someone is starting to tremble with fear: the echo of that “everyone for themselves!!”, a cry that allready last year started bouncing back from one global finance skyscraper to the other, is now back. But this time their […]
The first phase of the trial against 25 comrades, who on the 19th, 20th and 21st July 2001 took part in the protests against the G8 in Genoa, is drawing to a close. By asking for an overall sentence of 225 years, the Italian state aims at formulating a historical and political judgement on those […]