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The battle for the beaches in Italy

Dave Kellaway — 2026-08-11T07:44:08Z

Every year people in Italy moan about the way the ‘spiaggia libera' (free access beach) is becoming smaller and smaller. At the same time the private lidos, where you have to pay for a sun umbrella and a couple of loungers, defend their privatised territory with all sorts of barriers and walls to prevent people from moving across their beach. The law says that 5 metres of the foreshore has to remain open to anybody – the privateers cannot put their sun loungers right up to the water. So often they make it difficult to walk from the free beach to the paying beach.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Italy, Public services

The murderous state, presumed innocent

Stéfanie Prezioso — 2026-07-31T10:15:57Z

The death of Abderrahim Fakir in a working-class neighborhood of Bologna on Sunday, July 20, sparked outrage, leading thousands of people to demonstrate to demand “Truth and Justice”; this death is reminiscent of that of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020…

- IVP618 - July 2026 / Italy

There's a class struggle under the sun; the heat is eating away at wages

Luigi Pandolfi — 2026-07-13T09:16:18Z

“It's hot. For some, it's just a matter of temperature. For the working class, however, it's already a matter of health and finances: less income, higher prices, greater vulnerability. “The severe heat wave sweeping across Europe threatens people's health, their livelihoods, and their ability to work,” Jessie Ruth Schleypen, a climate economist at Climate Analytics, told Bloomberg.”

- IVP618 - July 2026 / Italy, Climate

Anatomy of a feminist debate: the ambivalences of the notion of femicide

Caterina Peroni — 2026-06-09T13:19:13Z

“Violence against women is a structural phenomenon that demands a comprehensive response that cannot be dictated by “fragmentary interventions driven by fleeting media sensationalism or purely formal laws.” Sociologist Caterina Peroni discusses the relevance of this penal response here. ”

- Feminism / Italy, Women, Features

Relaunching the Battle of Ideas on the Italian Left

Salvatore Cannavò, Stéfanie Prezioso — 2026-05-20T07:12:26Z

Italy's hard right lost its March 2026 judicial-reform referendum — yet Fratelli d'Italia remains the country's leading party, and sovereigntism the dominant ideological vector. Salvatore Cannavò argues that the Italian left is structured around three distinct tendencies (liberal, radical-democratic, socialist) and that only the socialist or class-based component is in genuine disarray. He proposes recombining socialist ideas — ecosocialism, self-management, the Paris Commune legacy — with (…)

- Features / Italy, Marxism

Honoring Anti-Fascist Resistance

Jason Dawsey — 2026-04-12T10:22:16Z

ON APRIL 29, 1945, Rossana Rossanda joined the massive crowds gathered on the Piazzale Loreto in Milan, Italy, where, more than 26 years earlier, Benito Mussolini's Fascist movement began its wretched existence.

- Features / Italy, Fascism, Antifascism

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

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

Italian steel bosses do you think workers can fly!

Francesco Maresca — 2026-03-11T13:24:18Z

Another workplace death at the former Ilva steel plant in Taranto while production languishes and Minister Urso fails to act. Workers mobilise. Solidarity from Sinistra Anticapitalista

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Italy, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Remigration and (it is) fascism

Osservatorio Repressione — 2026-02-16T11:30:15Z

Trumpism with an Italian twist is on the rise: don't underestimate it, get organised to stop it!

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Italy, Migration