Fridays for Future returns to street action during the pandemic

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...

Workers at the Castel San Giovanni distribution hub struck after unions said the company had not fully implemented workplace safety measures. Amazon disputed the claim and said it followed...

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,...

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...

Despite restrictions on gatherings, local Non Una di Meno assemblies held actions in more than 15 cities and online for the International Day against gender-based violence. In Bologna, activists...

The network called a 24-hour strike across public and private work and organized public actions despite pandemic restrictions. Its demands tied gender violence to precarious employment, unpaid care...

After the company announced the closure of its Campi Bisenzio plant and the dismissal of more than 400 workers, employees organized a permanent assembly and occupied the factory. The collective...

After pandemic restrictions, climate activists held demonstrations in more than 70 cities. They demanded concrete emissions cuts and climate justice, directing criticism at leaders in the Global North...