Last Generation activists block central Rome traffic for climate action

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...

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...

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...

USB and more than 100 committees, associations and organizations marched in Rome against government economic and foreign policy. The coalition tied wages, housing, public health and migrant workers’...