His lawyers and friends tell that he is well and that receives and reads with glee the lots of letters of solidarity that are arriving from Italy and England – though, sadly, his stay in jail will last longer. Actually, on last April 9, the judge rejected the request of release brought by the defense, […]

True horror has the strength to annihilate the capacity of expression of who suffers from its impact. It is a relation with grief that leaves us speechless and makes it impossible for us to contextualise an event. The political sphere sounds immediately obscene and false, and the only human reaction seems that of pure empathy, […]

After seven years of crisis the precarious pride has become rage and indignation against the burgeoning unemployment and the growth of poverty imposed by BCE & IMF  to most of the population with austerity policies, particularly in Italy, Greece and the rest of the Latin Europe. Social slaughter, plunder of wealth and common goods, the end of the public city […]

In the many rebel and mestizo squares, packed with thousands of men and women that organize themselves in order to resist the crisis, the call “One great work only: house and income for everyone!” was strongly echoed. It is not a slogan but a practice that lives in the anti-eviction pickets, in the defense from […]

As the Lupi minister himself was forced to resign after his associate Ettore Incalza – a longtime state manager which did supervise great unnecessary works’ projects such as the TAV high-speed railway – was prosecuted for corruption, a second march of dignity approaches in Bologna and other initiatives are developing in other cities, to reaffirm […]

The composition seen in Frankfurt on March 18, both in the morning of action and blockades and in the march that paraded from the Romemberg in the afternoon, was an heterogeneous, mostly juvenile and precarious one that managed to carry out most of its goals through the morning, in a convergent though fragmentary way. We […]

Durant la matinée d’actions et blocages et ensuite pendant le cortège qui a défilé du Romerberg dans l’après-midi, on a vu à Francfort une composition hétérogène, principalement juvénile et précaire. Celle-ci est arrivée dans la plupart des cas à atteindre pendant la matinée ses objectifs, d’une manière convergente quoique disorganique. C’est de là que nous […]

I grew in a working-class neighbourhood, one like any other. One of those neighbourhood in which there’s no light at night and in winter not even dogs come out, one of those neighbourhoods abandoned by transports, institutions, services, let alone with run-down streets and floods every month. In this neighbourhood I grew up and from […]

The spring of 2015 will see another symbolic landmark in European crisis policy emerge with the opening of the new European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt. The ceremony will allow the representatives of the European member-states to pat themselves on the back for their crisis-solutions whilst using the celebrations to prepare themselves (and us) for […]