Amazon workers in Piacenza strike over COVID-19 protections

A second major global climate strike brought large crowds into Italian streets after a week of climate actions. Fridays for Future Italia linked students’ demands for rapid climate action to the...

Four Bologna residents organized a flash mob to oppose Matteo Salvini’s campaign rally and the growth of anti-immigrant politics. Thousands packed Piazza Maggiore, holding up paper sardines to...

A national feminist and transfeminist march crossed Rome two days before the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The movement connected femicide and gender violence to...

Young climate activists chose Black Friday for a global strike to challenge consumerism and unsustainable production. Fridays for Future Italia reported actions in 115 cities and invited the...

As the pandemic spread, workers in northern Italy staged spontaneous stoppages over inadequate protection and continued production. FIM, FIOM and UILM called for temporary closures to sanitize...

Movimento Migranti e Rifugiati and allied groups held a flash mob outside Naples’ prefecture against a temporary regularization measure that excluded many workers and left permits short-term....

Agricultural workers in the Foggia countryside stopped work and marched against a regularization plan they said left many undocumented farmworkers excluded. USB and braccianti demanded residence...

Thousands gathered in Milan after George Floyd’s killing, then marched from Centrale station toward the neighborhood where Abdul Guiebre was killed in a racist attack. Black Italians, students,...

Climate activists organized socially distanced and digital actions across Italy under the theme of people and areas most affected by the climate crisis. The movement linked ecological transition to...

Students from Milan’s Liceo Volta held classes outside Palazzo Lombardia to protest the regional order requiring full distance learning for upper secondary schools. Sitting apart with masks, they made...