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Understanding Fascism with Clara Zetkin

Stéfanie Prezioso — 2026-04-12T10:22:36Z

We are publishing a text by Clara Zetkin presented by the historian Stefanie Prezioso, taken from the book “Découvrir l'antifascisme” (Éditions sociales, May 2025).

- Features / Historical events and figures, Fascism

Italy's Rising Black Tide, A Creeping Counter-Revolution

Stéfanie Prezioso — 2022-09-18T08:36:25Z

“On September 25 Italy will hold elections following the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi and the concern is palpable. The Economist wrote that they could hardly come at a less opportune time, in the midst of at least three interconnected crises: the invasion of Ukraine, the energy crisis and inflation, which in late August reached 8.4% in Italy, its highest level since 1986.”

- IV572 - September 2022 / Italy, Far Right

How to overthrow a life-threatening capitalism?

Stéfanie Prezioso — 2022-01-20T09:41:17Z

“To understand the role played by productive and reproductive labour (salaried and non-salaried) in ensuring capitalist accumulation is also to understand that only living labour, because it is the very condition of the profits of a small minority of exploiters, is able to overthrow the yoke of capital, through the collective struggle for its emancipation.”

- IV564 - January 2022 / Marxism, Women

Women's/Feminist Strike in Switzerland: A Step Forward on the Road of the Internalization of Feminist Struggles

Stéfanie Prezioso — 2019-08-07T09:03:22Z

“But what do they want?” was the question since the first Feminist Conference in June 2018 held in Lausanne and its call for a Women*'s / Feminist strike to be held a year later. On the 14th of June 2019, exactly 28 years after the first-ever women*'s strike in Switzerland, more than half a million women* and supportive men took part in mobilizations all over the country. Thousands more, from midnight on, occupied public spaces, and several workplaces or simply showed their solidarity with the strike by wearing purple clothing or the strike's ad hoc badge.

- iV535 - August 2019 / Women, Switzerland