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The old demons of the interwar period are back in Europe!

29 September 2022 - by Yorgos Mitralias

“Days of 1922? Not yet, but Italy is on track to”celebrate“in four years the centenary of the rise of Mussolini and his fascist movement to power with a regime that will resemble it- almost - like two drops of water!” With this premonitory sentence (...)
Towards the Brown International of the European and global far right?

6 September 2022 - by Yorgos Mitralias

Not since the end of the last world war has the threat of a reinvigorated, aggressive and almost universally rising far right been felt as much as today. Why is this so? Because, contrary to what happened during the last 6-7 decades, this threat (...)
100 years ago, in early August 1922, the barricades of Parma repelled Mussolini’s hordes...

3 August 2022 - by Yorgos Mitralias

At least during the interwar period, when there was a confrontation between the left and the fascists, it was always the fascists who won. And unfortunately, most of the time without meeting a real resistance. However, there has been one (...)
Migrants, debt and propaganda

3 July 2019 - by CADTM Italy

As regards the docking of the Sea Watch 3 ship, a heated debate is rising in Italy, which could not but involve organizations also dealing with economics, finance and debt. In these days we are witnessing the representation of a dramatic , (...)
Can the Italian debt be repudiated?

24 June 2019 - by Cristina Quintavalla, Antonio De Lellis

Debt is not a natural disaster, nor is it the effect of excessive social expenditure: its odious nature derives from its negative consequences on the population. The Italian case. “If Salvini really wanted to fight Brussels, as he says, he (...)
Italy: RiMaflow, an exemplary workers’ struggle of the 21^st century

22 October 2018 - by Nadia De Mond

Repression fell on the RiMaflow factory, place of an emblematic fight. The president of the cooperative, Massimo Lettieri, was arrested and is still in detention, while the cooperative fights to survive. A call for solidarity has been launched. (...)
No TAV: feeding the fire of resistance in northern Italy

18 January 2018 - by Frank Barat

The decades-old struggle of the No TAV movement in northern Italy is an inspiration to environmentalist and anti-capitalist movements worldwide. When I get to Turin airport, on a warm autumn day, the smell of smoke is overwhelming. The weather (...)
Non Una di Meno: A new feminist movement in Italy is on the move

12 June 2017 - by Nadia De Mond

“We are likely witnessing the birth of a new feminist movement on an international level. Of course, this doesn’t mean that we have a feminist movement everywhere. The International Women’s Strike was joined by fifty countries, but participation in (...)
The colossus with the feet of clay that was Monte dei Paschi di Siena

9 March 2017 - by Chiara Filoni

A little over a year after the bail-in [1] of four small banks in central Italy, the country’s banking problems are far from solved. On 23 December, Italy awoke to €20 billion in additional public debt on its balance sheet: a hangover from which (...)
The CADTM Italy is born

18 October 2016 - by Chiara Filoni

Following the successful meeting between secular and Catholic entities in Genoa on July 15th of this year, which also lead to the Charter of Genoa for the abolition of illegitimate debts, twenty Italian movements and progressives met on (...)
Genoa paper

Meeting: “ From the Genoa G8 to the “Laudato Si” : The Debt Jubilee?”

23 August 2016 - by Collective

15 years after the Genoa G8 and in the year of the Mercy Jubilee we agreed to meet in order to share one of the most pressing global issues: the progressive getting into debt of the whole planet. On this theme we decided to start a discussion (...)
Genoa: the fifteenth anniversary of the great demonstrations against the G8 and Berlusconi’s bloody repression

26 July 2016 - by Eric Toussaint

From July 18 to 23 Genoa remembers the demonstrations against the G8 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, UK and USA) that took place exactly 15 years ago. On 19 July the CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts) (...)
Italy’s banking problems: A useful guide to the implications of “bail-in”

24 July 2016 - by Daniel Munevar, Chiara Filoni

Obscured since the beginning of the crisis by more dramatic developments by banks elsewhere in Europe and the US, Italian banks have long dragged issues of low profitability and near insolvency. Now, after the surprising results of the Brexit (...)
Can the New Left Govern Europe?

29 February 2016 - by Conn Hallinan

After a year of earthshaking victories and devastating setbacks, Europe’s new progressive parties are slowly learning how to balance governance with activism. Over the past year, left and center-left parties have taken control of two European (...)
Free Market Corruption, Neo-liberal Pretexts

Poor People Can’t Be Engineers

Newsweek recently ran an article on money laundering in Latin America. It identified Nicaragua’s ex-President Arnoldo Aleman as one of a super-corrupt elite along with Mexico’s Carlos Salinas and Guatemala’s Alfonso Portillo. But, these individuals (...)
Comments on mobilisations in Genoa, with an eye to the future

19 July 2001 - by Eric Toussaint

1. Mobilisations against neoliberal globalisation and for another kind of globalisation based on solidarity have now reached a turning point. Since Seattle they have followed upon one another at an accelerating pace and with growing success. In (...)