No Tav is the term used to recognize a popular Italian grassroots movement, born in the early 90s. It includes a large number of people struggling against High-Speed-Railway projects in Italy, and recently inspired activists, associations and popular assemblies in foreign countries as well. The most important No Tav struggle is located in Susa Valley, […]

Interview originally published and introduced on Jadaliyya.com here   Paola Rivetti (PR): You recount the Tunisian revolution from an unusual point of view. Your book is in fact a book for political practice. It offers a sort of “aesthetic of action” rather than focusing on analysis. What was your goal in adopting such a perspective? […]

Marta, a 33-years old activist from Pisa, Italy, recounts her experience of being arrested during a No Tav demonstration last week then heavily beaten up and humiliated, being groped on her breasts and private parts by police agents.  

This year, in Turkey, Egypt and Brazil, the metropolitan strike has been used as a tool by the many people who are claiming new rights and a real democracy, reasserting its presence globally. We would like October 15, 2013 to be a territory inhabited and shared by many, constructed collectively, once the proposals to attack […]

Original article here   If Infoaut.org was to attend state exams this year, like a lot of people it would have been in a quandary if it was to follow the outline about Claudio Magris (after almost 20 years of educational butchery and school corporatization from Berlinguer till now, with Gelmini in the middle…)*, nonetheless […]

 Τις τελευταίες 15 μέρες στη Βραζιλία, εκατοντάδες χιλιάδες άνθρωποι ξεχύθηκαν στους δρόμους διάφορων πόλεων ενάντια στην αύξηση της τιμής των εισιτηρίων των δημόσιων τοπικών συγκοινωνιών. Οι συγκεκριμένες διαδηλώσεις χαρακτηριστήκαν από μια αποφασιστικότητα και μια συγκρουσιακότητα που έδωσαν ζωή σε βίαιες συγκρούσεις, οι οποίες απαντήθηκαν με σκληρή καταστολή. Στην αύξηση των τιμών των εισιτηρίων των δημόσιων […]

One of the most widespread illnesses, intrinsic to the explosion of the global communication fluxes, is “recentism”. With this term, we define a process for the formation of knowledge lacking a long – term historical perspective or strongly influenced by a recent attention wave provoked by the media. The infection is viral and curiously it […]

  17th May. At dawn the Roman DA Office and the CNAIPIC[1] kick off operation “Tangodown” against some alleged members of Anonymous Italy: four people end up under house arrest, while six others are searched by police and dozens of computers and IT devices are sequestered by security forces. All those people are charged with […]

  “To walk toward the good, the just, the true, to fight for the good, the just, the true, to seize the good, the just, the true.” It was a symbolic act in the name of the Piazza Verdi liberation, and to solidarize with the people resisting and fighting in Turkey at the same time. […]