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Italy: The stakes of the March referendum on justice

Hélène Marra — 2026-03-23T20:55:22Z

In Italy, prime minister Giorgia Meloni's government is continuing its authoritarian offensive with a reform of the judiciary that threatens the independence of the judiciary. The referendum on 22 and 23 March is a central political issue. After the “security” decree, the reform of the judiciary is another important link in the authoritarian project promoted by Meloni's government. By changing the methods of electing members of the Supreme Council of the Judiciary (CSM), the latter threatens the independence of this body and limits its ability to act as a counter-power to the political and economic systems. The victory of the “No” vote in the referendum on 22 and 23 March is an important opportunity to destabilise Meloni's coalition and to solidify the political and social opposition camp.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Italy

Italy: is Giorgia Meloni's policy a ‘model' for Europe?

Hélène Marra — 2024-11-08T08:31:10Z

For several decades, Italy has pursued an abject migration policy that flouts human rights and endangers the lives of many people trying to reach Europe. Criminalising movement, restricting the right to asylum, outsourcing border controls, detaining migrants in so-called ‘safe' countries: this is the xenophobic policy that Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni now claims to be setting as a ‘model' for other EU countries.

- IV598 - November 2024 / Italy, Migration

Rightwing alliance strengthened in Italy

Hélène Marra — 2024-06-22T21:07:00Z

The European election results illustrate, albeit in a distorted way, the serious social and political crisis that has followed decades of liberal austerity measures. It is above all the far right that is reaping the votes of the most disenchanted, who delusively believe that they can avoid downgrading by crushing those at the bottom and embracing the dangerous ideology of "national preference" and racism.

- IV593 - June 2024 / Italy, European Union

European Union: “One foot in the institutions, a hundred feet in the street”

Hélène Marra, Miguel Urbán Crespo — 2024-05-12T11:24:14Z

“I think that at the moment the main task is not so much to think about elections, but rather to think about how we can rebuild an anti-militarist internationalism that breaks with all imperialisms, that is independent of imperial interests and distant from our empires or competitors, that can have class independence and argues that one of the most important elements at the moment is an ecosocialist anti-militarist policy; to also reflect on the link between the climate crisis and the increase in war and armed conflicts.”

- IV592 - May 2024 / Europe, Spanish state, European Union

Hundreds sentenced in the maxi-trial of the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia

Hélène Marra — 2023-11-30T12:22:00Z

“Today, the 'Ndrangheta is considered to be the most powerful criminal organisation in the world. Its annual turnover is in the tens of billions of euros, and it has branches on every continent.”

- IV586 - November 2023 / Italy

Three deaths at work per day on average

Hélène Marra — 2023-09-19T11:09:00Z

“Although fragmented and heterogeneous, a few dissenting voices are standing up to this wave of injustice and contempt”

- IV584 - September 2023 / Italy, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Prides and workers' struggles in a time of backlash

Hélène Marra — 2023-06-27T08:10:00Z

Threats to the rights of women and LGBTI people, gifts to employers, the dismantling of public services and the denial of the right to health: the current period is a source of great concern both for gender minorities and for the Italian proletariat as a whole.

- IV581 - June 2023 / Italy, Trade unions/workplace organizing, LGBT

In Italy, the prospects opened up by the national riders' strike

Hélène Marra — 2021-04-09T15:54:05Z

On 26 March, thousands of delivery workers took part in a historic one-day strike that marked an important step in the struggle for the recognition of riders' rights.
The “No Delivery Day” was supported by many platform customers, consumers and collectives who decided to boycott the services in solidarity with the delivery workers. The drivers' protest was also massively supported by the rank-and-file unions (Clap, riders Cobas, Sial Cobas, Si Cobas) and the sectoral unions (Uiltucs, (…)

- IV555 - April 2021 / Italy, Trade unions/workplace organizing