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Features - Conflict in the Middle East

General Strike Action Across Italy in Response to Israeli State’s Attack Against Gaza Flotilla

October 4, 2025 Hugo Pierre, Italy

The Israeli state’s capture and arrest of aid workers, peace campaigners, workers representatives and parliamentarians on the Global Sumud Flotilla has sparked a general strike across Italy. The flotilla vessels, which were aiming to break […]

Italy

“Let’s Block Everything” – Italian solidarity strike for Gaza

September 23, 2025 Hugo Pierre, Italy

The Italian working class are beginning to take centre stage in the fight for the end to the brutal genocide inflicted on the people of Gaza by the Israeli state. In the middle of August […]

Italy

Florence’s GKN factory occupation longest in Italy’s history

June 9, 2023 First-hand report by Marco Tesei, Socialist Party (England and Wales)

Since 9 July 2021, a remarkable story of a working-class fightback has developed in Campi Bisenzio, on the industrial outskirts of Florence, Italy. On that day, the entire 500-strong workforce of GKN Driveline Firenze, a […]

Italy

100 years since Mussolini’s ‘March on Rome’

October 29, 2022 Iain Dalton

On 29 October 1922, King Victor Emmanuel lll appointed Benito Mussolini prime minister as his blackshirts organised to march on Rome – beginning 20 years of fascist rule in Italy. The 100th anniversary of the […]

Italy

Hard right wins general election in Italy

September 28, 2022 Christine Thomas

As predicted, the right-wing coalition of Brothers of Italy (FdI), Lega, and Forza Italia won the general election in Italy – with 44% of the vote, writes Christine Thomas. The ‘post-fascist’ FdI, led by Giorgia […]

Italy

Far right predicted to be electoral beneficiaries of Italy’s economic and social crisis

September 24, 2022 Christine Thomas

The Italian coalition government of Mario Draghi has become the latest political victim of the cost-of-living crisis. The government’s collapse at the end of July triggered a fall on the stock exchange and a rise […]

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‘Health not profit’ strike wave sweeps Italy

March 15, 2020 Chris Thomas, CWI

Italy is in lock-down in the fight against coronavirus. Bars, restaurants and shops are closed, with the exception of supermarkets, pharmacies and newsagents. And yet, under pressure from the bosses’ organisation, Confindustria, workers are still […]

Coronavirus

Italy on lockdown: lack of resources and democracy causes panic

March 14, 2020 Interview with a teacher in Bologna

With confirmed coronavirus cases in the thousands, the government of Italy has placed the entire country on lockdown. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte first quarantined 16 million of the country’s 60 million population in infected ‘red […]

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Italy: Right populist coalition government collapses

August 22, 2019 Christine Thomas, CWI

Christine Thomas, CWI After just 14 months in power, the populist coalition government of the far-right Lega and Five Star Movement (M5S) in Italy has collapsed. Matteo Salvini, Lega leader and interior minister, pulled the […]

Italy

IWD: Strikes and mass demonstrations in every major Italian town and city

March 11, 2019 Christine Thomas, Resistenze Internationali (CWI in Italy)

In Italy, all of the ‘unions of the base’ responded to Non Una Di Meno’s call for strike action on 8 March. Female and male workers walked out in hundreds of private workplaces around the […]

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