CGIL mobilizes against the Jobs Act in Rome

Students, teachers and school communities demonstrated nationally against the Gelmini education reforms and funding cuts. The “Onda” (Wave) movement used occupations, assemblies, marches and...

On the day Parliament voted on the reform, students staged demonstrations, occupations and blockades across Italy. In Bologna, thousands blocked a section of the A14 motorway; in Rome, students...

Demonstrations in more than 200 Italian cities and abroad brought very large crowds into the streets to protest the objectification of women and the conduct of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The...

The first day of a two-day national referendum followed years of organizing by the Italian water movement against privatization and profit-based water management. Alongside questions on nuclear...

A national demonstration in Rome joined the global Occupy-era day of action against austerity and financial power. A large, diverse march was disrupted by violent confrontations and police response....

Autonomous unions, social centers, precarious workers and student groups called a “social strike” against the Jobs Act and austerity. Organizers sought to combine workplace stoppages with blockades...

CGIL and UIL called a nationwide strike and regional demonstrations against the Jobs Act, budget law and government economic policy. CISL did not join the general strike. The action followed months of...

On International Workers’ Day, students, precarious workers, migrants’ rights groups, social centers and unions marched against Expo Milano 2015. Critics connected the event to unpaid labor, corporate...

The barefoot march began in Venice and spread to more than 60 Italian cities. Participants used the image of walking without shoes to express solidarity with people forced to flee and called for...

Greenpeace activists placed small mock oil rigs and a banner at Piazza Venezia to urge voters to support the April referendum limiting the duration of offshore drilling concessions. The action...