Thousands of people, firstly those that are fighting for the Housing Rights in Rome, seems to have well learnt from the past lessons about movement and general perspectives. For them, as other thousands of people in Italy, there’s no more place to mediate some agreements with the austerity mandatories, both in a local and […]
Au cours de ces deux années, la crise a transformé le contexte général, en transformant en profondeur les conditions sociales. Sur les territoires, les processus de décomposition déterminés par le renforcement des politiques d’austérité et d’appauvrissement sont devenus évidents, qui, si nous ne parvenons pas à les attaquer de manière adéquate, risquent de déterminer des […]
After the occupation and opening to the public of a long-abandoned university library yesterday, students in Turin occupied a former department of Law studies to draw attention and denounce the muddy business of the university authorities revolving around endless and costly renovations of student spaces. At the same time the cities’ housing rights committees picketed […]
We publish the translation of this editorial collectively authored by Infoaut.org, a media reference portal of social centers, collectives, associations and individuals of the Italian autonomous area and the rank-and-file unionism, among the promoters of the day of social strike and uprising of October 19. Its polemic targets are the old institutional left and parts […]
Original editorial in Italian If Luigi Preiti was to commit suicide, hanging himself in his parents’ house cellar (he did not have his own house anymore), he would have been simply some additional figure in a trend growing week after week: that of the desperate people that leave to the extreme action the […]
Original article here Previous editorial by Infoaut.org Translation by ItalyCalling (@ItalyCalling) Logistics workers strike Block the goods, generalise the struggle, united we win! The working class is awakening, and the mobilisations of the last few days among the logistics sector workers in Emilia Romagna are the first signs. Recently, we have seen two different […]
Original statement here What will we do with intellectuals? The question aims not to be a provocation, or a threat. We do not want to send any book to the stake, or to limit anyone’s freedom of expression – even though, as someone said, we should rather seek freedom from the expression (of the mainstream […]
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 […]
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 date of November 14th gives us some important elements which we must analyse with care because they can tell us about today’s Italy of conflict. In two days time, on November 16th, the south of our country will face another mobilisation against the crisis. There is, in fact, a complete […]