Union march in Bologna demands a new season of labor and social rights

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...

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...

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’...

Fridays for Future Italia held demonstrations in cities including Rome under the global climate action call. The movement criticized fossil-fuel dependence and the government’s energy policy,...