Workers and social movements march in Rome to lower arms and raise wages

Milan’s Pride parade returned as part of the largest post-pandemic season of Italian Pride mobilizations. The event joined public celebration with demands for equality and protection against...

Fridays for Future organized actions in over 70 cities two days before Italy’s general election. The movement argued that climate crisis had been sidelined in the campaign and called for climate...

Tens of thousands joined a national peace demonstration, calling for an end to the war in Ukraine and urging Italy to stop sending weapons. The coalition included trade unions, religious groups,...

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...

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...