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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

Three years of Meloni: A model for the international far right

Fabrizio Burattini — 2025-11-06T20:53:29Z

Wednesday 22 October marked exactly three years since Giorgia Meloni took office at Palazzo Chigi, the seat of the Italian Prime Minister. Her appointment was the result of the predictable but nonetheless disastrous election results of September 2022, when the right-wing coalition (of which Fratelli d'Italia was by far the largest party) won thanks to a significant abstention rate (36%) but above all thanks to an anti-proportional representation law passed by previous centre-left governments and the deep division between the other political forces that formed the diverse opposition front in parliament.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / Italy, Far Right

22 September: a day of hope, a day of possibility

Sinistra Anticapitalista — 2025-10-03T06:42:16Z

A second general strike in solidarity with Palestine has been called in Italy for 3 October, we publish the assessment by Sinistra Anticapitalista of the first one on 22 September.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Palestine, Italy

Finally, a general strike!

Gippò Mukendi Ngandu — 2025-09-24T14:53:26Z

Millions of workers and students in Italy came out against the genocide in Gaza on Monday 22 September.

- IVP608 - September 2025 / Palestine, Italy

What if Genoa wasn't an anomaly?

Marco Bertorello — 2025-09-05T06:23:15Z

The large mobilization for the Global Sumud Flotilla is a barometer of the social climate. And it tells us that there is still room for humanity.

- IVP608 - September 2025 / Palestine, Italy