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International youth camp

Jonathan Simmel, Marta Autore — 2024-05-07T14:47:00Z

In a context where the winds of war blow more strongly every day and the capitalist societies are starting a huge wave of remilitarization, where the war economy already has started, with big inflation rates and cuts to welfare state, health and education systems, it is of crucial importance for the anticapitalist youth to find moments to meet and coordinate.
It was 1984 when the revolutionary youth camp in solidarity with the Fourth International took place for the first time in Europe. (…)

- IV592 - May 2024 / Youth camp, Fourth International

Feminist tide engulfs Italy on 25 November

Marta Autore — 2023-12-03T19:23:00Z

“A historic day for the feminist movement, one that frightens the Meloni government, so far little challenged by social movements. A day that gives the movement a great responsibility: to feed this anger, to continue to insist on the structural dimension of patriarchal violence, to identify concrete goals, to build a real feminist strike on 8 March.”

- IV587 - December 2023 / Italy, Women

From health emergency to social crisis

Marta Autore, Salvatore Corizzo — 2020-03-17T05:56:50Z

The emergency that we have experienced in recent weeks in Italy has a health, economic and social nature in a broad sense, which could soon turn into a real crisis, with security implications. As we write (data updated on the afternoon of 11 March 2020) in Italy there are 12,462 infected, with 827 deaths. Unfortunately, these numbers are constantly increasing, seeming to follow an exponential trend. But to understand where we are today and where we could be in a few hours, days or weeks, it is necessary to take a step back to define the characteristics of the particular political-social phase that we are going through.

- IV542 - March 2020 / Italy, Covid-19 Pandemic