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Students and the working class united in a mass movement against the Government

Francesco Locantore — 2026-11-06T08:12:26Z

This autumn in Italy, in the wake of the protests taking place across the globe, is characterised by a growing sense of awareness amongst the younger generations and their taking to the streets.

- IVP622 - November 2026 / Italy, Youth and student movements

Cooperatives, community, communism

Enzo Traverso — 2026-10-29T15:19:03Z

“The great merit of this essay by Salvatore Cannavò – a fascinating analysis of two centuries of political experience and intellectual history – lies in rediscovering the richness and relevance of a long-forgotten tradition: the workers' cooperative and mutual aid movement.”

- Features / Italy, Marxism

A life as a revolutionary Marxist - Farewell, Antonio

Sinistra Anticapitalista — 2026-10-25T13:58:57Z

Antonio Moscato, a long-standing member and activist of our organisation since the 1950s, passed away on the night of 24 October. He was 88 years old. A lifelong commitment, from agitation at the factory gates to the university, within our organisation and in the battle of ideas

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Italy, Obituary, Fourth International

Mass protests of youth and workers spread to Italy

Dave Kellaway — 2026-10-22T11:33:25Z

On the interminable political news and discussion TV programmes here in Italy the pundits are all talking about ‘catching the virus' of the huge protests in the Spanish state and France. Hundreds of thousands of students mobilized on 16 October. Tent protests have sprung up in some city squares and there were minority skirmishes with the police in a few places.
On 17 October students joined the national demonstration against the spiraling cost of living called by the General Confederation (…)

- IVP621 - October 2026 / Italy, Youth and student movements, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Paris calls? Rome answers!

Eliana Como — 2026-10-18T12:13:09Z

Paris calls? Rome answers! This was the announcement made by Maurizio Landini, General Secretary of the CGIL, from the podium in Piazza del Popolo at the end of a major national march. It will be a day of natural solidarity with the students, just as is currently happening in France.

- IVP621 - October 2026 / Italy, France, Youth and student movements

Sinistra Anticapitalista Summer University: Solidarity, Partners, Ecosocialists

Sinistra Anticapitalista — 2026-10-04T13:04:01Z

“AI, Anti-Capitalist Intelligence”, the third edition of Italy's Ecosocialist Summer University – organized by Sinistra Anticapitalista and the Livio Maitan Library – ended on Sunday 6 September 2026 with a well-attended debate on the alternative to capitalist barbarism, moderated by Armando Morgia, in which Antonella Bundu (Toscana Rossa), Dario Salvetti (formerly of GKN), Eliana Como (CGIL oppositionist), Luca Scacchi (AMR Controvento), Giulio Calella (Edizioni Alegre) and Francesco Locantore (Gauche anticapitaliste) participated, among others.

- News from around the world / Italy, Marxism, Fourth International

The Inventor of Big Things: A Tribute to Livio Maitan

Gregor Benton — 2026-09-16T12:47:00Z

The following tribute was delivered at the launch of Livio Maitan's memoirs by Gregor Benton, the English translator. The launch was the 2019 Historical Materialism conference in London, Greg was speaking via video link from Borneo, where he was engaged in the documentation of a critically endangered indigenous language.

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

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