USB general strike links wages to migrant agricultural workers’ conditions

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...

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...

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,...

Thousands of young people demonstrated in cities across Italy, demanding action on the climate crisis. Fridays for Future paired creative street protest with political criticism of emissions and...

More than 100 organizations and networks joined a national demonstration in Rome. The coalition linked secure work and wages with constitutional rights, public health, environmental protection,...