A judiciary inquiry on December 2 uncovered a massive ring of corruption in the capitol (dubbed ‘Mafia Capitale‘ by the media), arresting a total of 37 people among fascists, politicians from government parties, criminals, entrepreneurs, corrupt police officers, public and private managers and cooperative companies’ directors; with their leaders controlling tenders, aid and other flows […]
As we are working on many important news from Italy during this period, we will integrate this nice report taken from Struggles in Italy with more infos and developments tomorrow, with a special broadcast of Koiné Dialektos – airing on Radio Infoaut at 5 pm CET time on Friday 12. Stay Tuned! A large building […]
Two weeks ago in Tor Sapienza – a neglected, working-class neighborhood at the eastern borders of Rome – a migrant care center (Sistema di protezione per richiedenti asilo e rifugiati-SPRAR) was assaulted with clubs and firecrackers by enraged residents over a spate of thefts and an alleged rape attempt by a migrant. That center was […]
More than two thousands people attended the demonstration, counting families hit by the floods and symphatetic people in their numbers. Upon the mayor’s arrival, after his words “the city council does not feel responsible at all” the rage of the citizens erupted and police had to escort him into the city hall, keeping the demonstrators […]
Should we address this letter to the workers who, yesterday*, were lined up against us while saying hypocritically that they intended to confront the police? Or to those who denounced our agitation, creating discussion inside their own block? To those close to the clash with the police who said our “caos” was “fucking annoying”? To […]
There is nothing symbolic about how the Kurdish partisans lowered the black flag raised by the Isis militias on the hill at the entrance to Kobane. The action tells a story of resistance and courage, organisation and autonomy. It speaks of their power to defend their territory – meter by meter, house by house -, […]
The first priority is to put into focus the social and economic situation at hand and its implications for our activities in all the Italian cities. The deterioration of the material conditions of life in vast sections of the population calls for responding to these needs with an active social representation. The growing intolerance towards […]
They were all there today, at the conference organized at the Lampedusa airport, those responsible for those deaths – and of all the other bodies that, in an effort to reach Europe, now fill up the Mediterranean Sea: from the president of European Parliament Martin Shultz, to the Italian and European Minister of Foreign Affairs […]
An already familiar experience of struggle in the city after 9 months of occupation of the first Taksim student house last year, an action carried out back then in the context of the national campaign against the Housing Plan, Lupi and Renzi’s article 5** and in general in support of the right to housing and […]
The armed interventions of the Western powers are, in the short and the long term, head-on attacks on revolutionary processes, and all the dispositifs they activate – from the ISIS to the air raids and the ground troops – all pointed against the movements for freedom from poverty and misery. The killing of Osama Bin […]