International Conference in Hamburg: Speech by the Revolutionary Proletarian Feminist Movement – Italy

As women comrades of the Revolutionary Proletarian Feminist Movement, we salute with joy this conference in support of People’s War in India and bring also the warm greetings of women workers, precarious, unemployed, young people that struggle in the Italian cities where we are present. At the international level, we dedicated the 8 March [...]

December 11th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Editor's desk, Maoists India, resistance, war | Comments are closed

Police officers hurt in Italy protest clashes: media

 

ROME: Six police officers were wounded, including one seriously, as clashes broke out with protesters at anti-austerity demonstrations in Milan and Turin on Wednesday, Italian media reported. Around 20 activists beat a riot police officer with a stick and baseball bats in Turin, while five officers were hurt during running street battles in [...]

November 14th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: resistance | Comments are closed

Italy police clash with jobless youth protesters

 

Italian riot police wielding batons yesteray clashed with several hundred demonstrators who were protesting in Naples over youth unemployment during a visit by the labour minister. Protesters wearing masks of Labour Minister Elsa Fornero and holding aloft banners calling for Premier Mario Monti to step down threw stones at police, who returned fire [...]

November 13th, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: resistance | Comments are closed

Students clash with police in protests across Italy

(Reuters) – Students clashed with Italian police in widespread protests on Friday against austerity measures imposed by Prime minister Mario Monti’s government. Thousands of university and high school students marched in major cities, including Rome, Milan and Naples, chanting slogans and carrying banners such as “Save schools not banks”.

The protests were the latest in [...]

October 5th, 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: resistance | Comments are closed

Alcoa Italy workers clash with police over jobs

ROME (Reuters) – Hundreds of workers from aluminum-maker Alcoa’s Sardinian smelter clashed with police on Monday to protest against the factory’s closure as the Italian government sought to avert the loss of more jobs.

Swiss industrial group Klesch offered a possible lifeline by expressing interest in the plant, but Alcoa in an email later said [...]

September 11th, 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: resistance | Comments are closed

Bomb injures senior policeman in Italy rail demo

ROME, July 22 (Reuters) – A senior Italian police officer was injured in violent clashes with demonstrators protesting against a planned high speed rail link between France and northern Italy, officials said on Sunday.

The head of a police special operations unit in Turin, Giuseppe Petronzi, was hurt by an improvised explosive device during the [...]

July 22nd, 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: resistance | Comments are closed

Bomb damages tax office in southern Italy: police

(Reuters) – A homemade bomb exploded in front of the main tax collection office of a southern Italian town on Saturday, police said, the latest in a string of attacks against tax authorities in the country.

The overnight explosion in Lamezia Terme caused no injuries but shattered a window and damaged the entrance to the [...]

June 17th, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: resistance | Comments are closed

Davanzo calls for violence in the courtroom, slogans and applause

 

MILAN – “Long live the revolution, advance the revolution, this is a good time.” Said Alfredo Davanzo, one of the defendants in the appeal process against the so-called New Red Brigades, when asked by a reporter what he thought of the attack on Robert Adinolfi, CEO of Ansaldo Nuclear, kneecapped by anarchists in [...]

May 17th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: prisons, resistance | Comments are closed

Army may guard tax offices as unrest mounts

Soldiers may be brought in to protect Italian tax offices and other sensitive sites after an increase in violence as the country struggles through austerity measures.

In the past six months there has been a wave of attacks countrywide on offices of Equitalia, the agency which handles tax collection, with the most recent on Saturday [...]

May 14th, 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: resistance | Comments are closed

Ex-Fiat workers occupy two banks in Sicily

PALERMO, Italy May 14 (Reuters) – About 300 former Fiat and auto sector workers protesting against unemployment and hardship in Sicily occupied local branches of banks Unicredit and Intesa San Paolo on Monday, unions said.

The protesters called for “immediate solutions” to relaunch Fiat’s Termini Imerese plant in Sicily, which the car maker shuttered in [...]

May 14th, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: resistance | Comments are closed
 
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