Italy
Italian Factory Workers Go on Strike for Coronavirus Protections
As coronavirus rips through Italy, the country remains on lockdown and most businesses are closed. Yet many of Italy’s factories remain open, putting millions of workers at risk. Workers are going on strike around the country to stand up against these dangerous working conditions.
Diego Lotito
March 13, 2020
Italian Longshoremen Stand with Human Rights Activists against the War in Yemen
The Dockworkers’ strike shows the real political power of unions and organized labor to fight imperialism and to protect the interests of working people around the world.
James Dennis Hoff
May 21, 2019
From Marco Polo to Xi Jinping: Italy Joins the Silk Route
Italy signs a new trade agreement with China. What does this mean for China's relationship with Europe?
Josefina L. Martínez
April 4, 2019
Over 1,600 Attend Talks by Socialist Feminist Andrea D’Atri across Europe
Andrea D'Atri, a feminist and socialist from Argentina, the founder of the women's organization "Pan y Rosas", has been touring Europe for three weeks. Meetings in Rome, Munich, Madrid, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Toulouse and Paris attracted over 1,600 people. This Saturday, she concluded her tour with a meeting in Berlin.
Stefan Schneider
February 23, 2019
A New Italian ‘Podemos’?
A new political movement is shaking up Italy's political landscape. Various parties of the Italian Left have come together under the name “Potere al Popolo” (Power to the People) in order to build a common slate for the general election on March 4, 2018. What does this new project propose?
La Voce delle Lotte
January 25, 2018
Open Letter to the Trotskyist Fraction
Members of the International Revolutionary Fraction recently broke with PCL (Workers Communist Party) in Italy. Here is an open letter they wrote to the Trotkyist Fraction, an international that includes the PTS of Argentina (Party of Socialist Workers), MTS of Mexico (Movement of Socialist Workers), PTR of Chile (Party of Revolutionary Workers), CCR (Revolutionary Communist Current) of France among others.
International Revolutionary Fraction
May 30, 2017
New Year, Old Struggles: The Strike for a Collective Agreement in the Logistics Sector
Since 2008, the logistics sector in Italy has been the epicenter of a wave of struggles led by a workforce mainly manned by immigrants. These struggles have at times been severely repressed by the employers (with the support of heavy deployment of police), but have also gained significant victories. These victories are not only to be celebrated by the workers in question, rather their meaning goes beyond the logistic sector and speaks to all of us.
Clash City Workers
January 13, 2016
From Mexico to Italy, in Defense of Public Education
In Italy, thousands have taken the streets in a general strike against the education reforms of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.Those of us in the ‘Nuestra Clase’ grouping in Mexico sympathize with their fight. We repudiate the repression of our working-class brothers and sisters.
Tania Vonki
December 2, 2015