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The people's vote has rejected the right‑wing's government's subversive plan

Sinistra Anticapitalista — 2026-03-29T07:53:11Z

The people's vote has rejected the right‑wing's government's subversive plan. Now let us mobilise to bring down the government, stop the war and rearmament, and reclaim the civil and social rights taken from the working class!

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Italy

22 September: a day of hope, a day of possibility

Sinistra Anticapitalista — 2025-10-03T06:42:16Z

A second general strike in solidarity with Palestine has been called in Italy for 3 October, we publish the assessment by Sinistra Anticapitalista of the first one on 22 September.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Palestine, Italy

Italy votes on removing anti‑working class laws

Dave Kellaway, Sinistra Anticapitalista — 2025-06-07T12:36:07Z

Italy votes this weekend in 5 referendums. Four are all about the existing restrictive, anti-working class labour laws and one is about the length of time involved in claiming citizenship. Meloni's post-fascist led government defends the repressive labour legislation and the current citizenship law which means you have to have lived in Italy for 10 years before becoming Italian. A Yes in the referendum would halve that period.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Italy, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Livio Maitan's centenary conference “Looking to the future” was a success

Sinistra Anticapitalista — 2023-04-06T18:15:03Z

At least 200 people attended the event promoted by the BLM (Biblioteca Livio Maitan) at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale (National Central Library) in Rome on 1 April.

- Features / Italy, Fourth International, Historical events and figures

The old and new enemies of the working class

Sinistra Anticapitalista — 2022-10-11T06:11:07Z

“The autumn will be characterized by strong contradictions, by millions of people in our country experiencing poverty, hardship and difficulty in meeting basic expenses. There will be very strong tensions, even possible riots or uprisings.”

- IV573 - October 2022 / Italy

No to the violence of the fascists and bosses. Demonstrate outside the Union halls on 10 October

Sinistra Anticapitalista — 2021-10-13T12:00:27Z

Communique from Sinistra Anticapitalista (Anticapitalist Left), 9 October 2021.

- News from around the world / Italy, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Mimmo Lucano sentenced to 13 years – A class vendetta

Dave Kellaway, Sinistra Anticapitalista — 2021-10-05T13:02:45Z

Mimmo Lucano was mayor of Riace, a small town in Calabria in the South of Italy. He used his leadership to welcome migrants and asylum seekers to his town.

- IV561 - October 2021

For a new 25 April

Sinistra Anticapitalista — 2021-04-29T07:58:50Z

Sinistra Anticapitalista, an organization of Fourth Internationalists in Italy, issued this statement on 24 April, the eve of the national holiday marking the victory against fascism in 1945.

- IV555 - April 2021 / Italy

Black Lives Matter mobilisations in Italy

Dave Kellaway, Sinistra Anticapitalista — 2020-06-08T13:42:56Z

The demonstration called in Turin, in solidarity with the African Americans in revolt over the murder of George Floyd, seemed to be one of those routine solidarity actions which we do because we feel we have to, but too often do not really have much of an impact with local people.

- IV545 - June 2020 / Italy, Anti-racism and Islamophobia

The meaning of the Italian right's victory

Sinistra Anticapitalista — 2018-04-24T09:00:11Z

Italy's political future is unclear more than a month after general elections that failed to produce a working parliamentary majority for any single electoral coalition or party. Nevertheless, the March 4 election was a triumph for the right-wing coalition of parties led by the xenophobic League and for the populist Five Star Movement, which came in first and second respectively in voting. The incumbent center-left Democratic Party was trounced, losing nearly 300 seats in the two houses of parliament.

- IV519 - April 2018 / Italy