Cutro march calls for safe routes and an end to migrant deaths

Legambiente, Fridays for Future and allied groups held actions in Rome, Milan, Florence and elsewhere during COP27. They demanded climate action and expressed solidarity with activists detained in...

The national feminist and transfeminist movement returned to the streets in Rome, linking opposition to femicide and gender-based violence with structural critiques of patriarchy. The march brought...

USB and grassroots unions led a national march against the government’s budget, rising living costs and arms transfers. Farmworkers, factory workers, students, precarious workers and port workers...

Thousands of young people marched in Italian cities as part of the Global Climate Strike. In Rome, demonstrators challenged public investment in fossil fuels and used the slogan “End Fossil...

Non Una di Meno held actions in multiple cities for International Women’s Day. In Milan, students marched against gender violence and a justice system they said failed survivors. The strike...

The grassroots union USB organized rallies and public actions in many Italian cities. Its platform called for higher wages, action against workplace deaths, opposition to the government’s...

Six Ultima Generazione activists staged a topless road blockade in central Rome under the message “We won’t pay for fossil fuels.” The civil-disobedience action called for ending public investment and...

CGIL, CISL and UIL began a coordinated national mobilization with a regional demonstration in Bologna. Unions called for wage and pension protections, public health and education, safer workplaces,...

Students pitched tents outside universities as a movement against unaffordable rents spread from Milan to Rome, Florence, Bologna, Padua and Cagliari. At Sapienza, students described long commutes and...

USB called a national general strike and organized demonstrations in multiple cities. Its demands included wage increases, workplace safety and opposition to military spending. In Torretta Antonacci...