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 […]
Η χρηματοοικονομική κρίση με επίκεντρο τις ΗΠΑ προχωράει ανά κύματα συνεχόμενα που βαθαίνουν και αυξάνουν τις συνέπειες της. Κρίση των επισφαλών στεγαστικών δανείων, στη συνέχεια περιστολή της διατραπεζικής πίστης, ακολουθεί μια γενική πτώση της τιμής των ακινήτων (η πρώτη μετά τον Β’ Παγκόσμιο πόλεμο με ισχυρές απώλειες στους ισολογισμούς των χρηματοοικονομικών οργανισμών και…ίσως πραγματική ύφεση. […]
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 […]