Original statement in Italian here   The two days of movement assemblies held in Rome at the University “La Sapienza” and at the squatted house in Via delle Province shared an extremely positive evaluation about the power of the movement expressed around and into the week of mobilization that led to 19o, even in the […]

  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 […]

The struggle continues, as this movement grows and cements itself as the only true opposition to the Italian government of austerity and crisis. And, by breaking up any mournful and resigned past demonstration habits with righteous rage and cunning self-organization, it can even manage to look down on the power for a short while, from […]

Some two months ago the national housing activists met the NO TAV* movement in the sunny green Susa Valley. The plan was a week of national mobilization culminating with a general strike (of the rank-and-file unions) followed by a mass demonstration against austerity and precarity in Rome. Putting together the whole Italian movement sounded like […]

Original article here   From the Cyber Resistance crew (wwww.cantiere.org) we get a little manual for managing as best as possible your smartphone in prospect of #19o: apps, habits and good practices of communication to use during a rally. Demo after demo we could see one more phone, camera or videocamera joining up the myriad […]

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 […]

Volvemos a empezar desde Piazza San Giovanni. Una plaza que el 15 de Octubre de 2011 fue la tumba para una clase política, institucional y de movimiento, atropellada por una expresión de antagonismo social irreducible a formas de representación. Los dos años siguientes han confirmado que no fue una sublevación simbólica, sino un punto sin […]

Let’s start again from Piazza San Giovanni. A square that on the 15th of October 2011 turned out to be a graveyard for political elites,both institutional and movement ones, trampled over by an expression of social antagonism irreconcilable with the forms of political representation. The following two years confirmed that it wasn’t an episodic outburst […]

Original statement here   The social movements which brought to life yesterday’s uprising, culminated in a siege against the Austerity palaces and the Porta Pia acampada, have gathered today to confront themselves within a plenary assembly to which they participaeted with hundreds of people. All interventions highlighted a mobilization which, despite  mainstream media criminalization and […]