USB May Day rallies link wages, workplace deaths and migration policy

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...

Thousands marched at Steccato di Cutro after the shipwreck that killed people seeking refuge in Europe. The Rete Asilo and allied groups demanded changes to Italian and European migration policy and...

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...

Following catastrophic flooding in Emilia-Romagna, activists in Bologna protested local management of the territory and placed mud outside the local government building. The action called attention to...