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 […]
In days of panic selling and bursting bubbles, the Chinese stock markets appear to be a casino of roulette bets on future economic trends. Beyond the daily ups and downs of the stocks game, we can identify maneuvers of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and other players, as well as long-term trends of Chinese […]
Today we were more than two hundreds of people in front of the courthouse in Milan in order to support Marcelo: a friend, a comrade, a migrant that came here from Ecuador, with the will to struggle and take a challenge side by side with those that, in our country, decided not to bow their […]
The demonstration was called by the local NoTriv* committee that, for a lot of months now, has been carrying on its territorial struggle against the provisions in the Sblocca Italia decree** that will allow drillings a few kilometres off the Licatan coast. The demonstration, which started around 10 am, was participated by associations and committees […]
The families took advantage of the big participation and of the media attention that this event has always been enjoying, in order to break the image of the “showcase city”, made of big events, openings and massive speculations that the local administration has been building and proposing again for years, and to have everyone’s eyes […]
Today, December 14, the Palermo city council will award the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan of onorary citizenship. A decision that was made thanks to years of mobilization and information from below about the Kurdish struggle, and transnational solidarity by the autonomous social centres’ movement in Palermo and other grassroots regional organizations. The latter started a […]
UPDATE 7.30 With great perseverance we keep resisting on the roof, while the picket of the supporters managed to outflank the blockade of the oppressors in uniform: children, families and occupiers have warm nourishment for dinner on the roof as well! It is a day featuring joy and resistance! Thanks to Eat the Rich and Campi Aperti, […]
Turkey is blaming Russia for crossing over its own airspace, thus violating its sovereignity. Ankara also stated that the Russian Sukhoi pilot was alerted over and over before getting shot (available here), but that these alerts fell on deaf ears. On the contrary, Russia denied this fact. Was it a pilot’s mistake? Or an explicit […]
After having gathered, the demonstrators’ march starts, but they are immediately charged. Three hours of madness ensue, when an iron-clad police tries to disperse the demonstrators with one tear gas canister and stun grenade after another. Some people try to defend themselves in order to keep the armed men at bay from the march with […]