Tag Archives: Italy
More anarchist arrests in Italy
A second wave of arrests of radicals took place in Florence at the beginning of May. The operation, led by the police and secret service departments, concluded with a total of 78 people under investigation, 22 banning orders and five under home arrest. All are believed to be connected with the local social centre Spazio [...]
Diaz G8 – Supreme court of Appeal
One of the most important court cases in Italian history is the legal process for the raid on the Diaz school during the G8 in 2001. So far 25 Diaz police commanders and enlisted men have been convicted after the appeal verdict was announced on May 18th 2010. Despite most of the original charges being [...]
Anti-Anarchist Crackdown
In a repressive wave against anarchist insurrectionaries across Italy, five comrades of the Bologna group Fuoroligo have been arrested, and seven others have been cautioned and put under restrictions. According to recent updates a sixth anarchist has been arrested in the city of Ferrara. The arrested have been charged with ‘subversive association with criminal intent.’ [...]
Social Festival of Anti-fascist Culture, Bologna 2010
A report back from the international anti-fascist festival in Italy Freedom were invited to attend the annual “Festival Sociale delle Culture Antifasciste”, Bologna, an initiative that started in 2009 and organised predominately by “Ex-Mercato 24″ a social centre based in Via Fourivanti, a popular working class neighbourhood in central Bologna, in the process of mass [...]
State of Emergency Declared in Italian Prison System
Bra from Anarchist Black Cross (Brighton) examines the crisis in Italian prisons. 2009 was a particularly bad year for the Italian prison system, especially if you happened to be one of its ‘guests’ having to suffer the severe overcrowding that was exacerbated by an overall lack of funding in the system. As a result, the [...]
Green Scientists Show Red Fire
Environmental researchers at state-owned group ISPRA were due to finish a rooftop occupation of their labs, as Freedom went to press, after negotiations were agreed over the firing of nearly one third of company staff. Last year saw 200 people sacked, while another 250 on temporary contracts have been put on notice that they could [...]
Many Thousands March In Italy
Far right drive to privatise galvanises public sector Hundreds of thousands of workers across Italy went on strike and marched on 11th December against reforms designed to set up huge swathes of the public sector for cuts and sell-offs. Despite opposition against demonstrations from several major unions, protests were held in Rome, Milan and Naples [...]
Rome And The G8 Way To Hell
First-time summit protester Clare was disappointed by a lack of action in Italy, as activism there continues to reel from rising fascism “Let’s say that you were on your way to do some covert, well-planned, semi-legal direct action at a particular animal testing lab, you wouldn’t steal a car to drive to the laboratory would [...]
Workers Against War
Snippets of organised workers’ opposition to the war on Iraq, roundly ignored by the mainstream media. Italy: A one-day general strike one 2nd April, 2003 was organised entirely by the rank-and-file ‘base’ unions and anarchosyndicalist USI. Despite the fact the traditional unions did not back the action, one million workers struck and 250,000 demonstrated across [...]
