The European elections and then the Italian 6-months’ Presidency term. The agenda of the counterpart set the “European Union” topic even in the Italian public debate. It looks like that the movements that have been opposing its initiative for decades have clearer ideas than the power or powerless political elites – that rediscover the Euro […]
On last January 20, kicking off a nationwide week of struggle against austerity, the loaders and their supporters from the SI Cobas grassroots trade union, the Laboratorio Crash social center and the university and high school student autonomous collectives once again picketed the gates of the Granarolo dairy company on the outskirts of Bologna. […]
LA COORDINATION DE COMITÉS NO TAV réunie le Mercredi 8 Janvier 2014 à Villar Focchiardo a évalué attentivement la situation juridique gravissime créée suite aux dernières arrestations de Chiara, Claudio, Mattia et Niccolò, pour lesquels s’est construit un château de chefs d’accusation étudié justement pour intimider toutes les sacro-saintes luttes qui, aussi grâce au mouvement […]
In the context of a deepening housing crisis, Italy’s movements are becoming increasingly united in their opposition to neoliberalism and austerity. If there is one day that can symbolically represent the current struggle against austerity and neoliberalism in Italy it must be the 19th of October 2013 — the day of the General Uprising (“sollevazione […]
S’il fallait choisir une seule journée d’action pour représenter symboliquement le combat qui est actuellement mené en Italie contre l’austérité et le néolibéralisme, ce serait celle du 19 octobre 2013 – le jour du « soulèvement général » contre l’austérité. Ce jour-là, derrière une bannière proclamant « Un seul grand projet : un revenu et […]
The neo-ottoman project of Turkey underwent a serious crisis during the Gezi Resistance and is now facing another crisis. If Gezi was a sudden cardiac arrest in the heart of Islamic neoliberalism (which it never recovered from), the past weeks political crisis in the corridors of the élite has been a concussion of its brain. We remember how […]
On one side, there are the Institutions. A Presidency of the Republic that in front of the crisis unceremoniously throws away the ceremonial mask and grabs the scepter of power. By forming and protecting the Letta Government (as the former Monti government, and various commissions of ‘sages’) with the sole goal to ratify the policies […]
After thursday’s occupation of Social Log a new day of action unraveled in Bologna. A mestizo and wildcat march fully representing the Bolognese movements’ composition took the streets yesterday, bringing forward the needs and desires of the various social actors participating in it. Who decides on public spending? The urgence to answer this question from […]
A public presentation assembly is scheduled for this afternoon at 6 pm, and a benefit event for the struggling logistics’ workers of the Bolognese area will follow. As the leaflet distributed to the people after the occupation reads: In the downtown of Bologna there is a new place at the disposal of the last, […]
Besides the reasons that ever since back the opposition to the unnecessary great work (environmental and public health concerns, militarization of the territory – with more soldiers deployed in the valley than in the concurrent Italian imperialist mission in Herat, Afghanistan – senseless squandering of public money in times of crisis, alleged mafia affiliation and […]