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16 November 2011
Berlusconi quits as debt crisis hits eurozone's third largest economy
The deepening eurozone crisis has claimed another government with the departure of Italy's prime minister Silvio Berlusconi...
27 June 2011
Italy - brutal dawn attack on peaceful protest camp
At 5am this morning, 2,000 police stormed the protest camps in Val di Susa, northern Italy, to try to allow work to start on a High Velocity Railway (TAV)...
23 September 2009
Workers' fightback grows in Italy
"Let's do an INNSE": "EVERYONE ON the roof", seems to be one of the slogans uniting workers in struggle in Italy. Another is "let's do an INNSE", referring to the marvellous victory of workers in the INNSE factory, near...
4 February 2009
The strike is big news here in Italy. Inevitably the press and media are portraying it as an "anti-Italian strike" - a strike for "British jobs for British workers", writes Christine Thomas, Lotta, CWI Italy.
19 November 2008
Eyewitness report: Italian students occupy
"Noi la crisi non la paghiamo" (We won't pay for your crisis) chanted hundreds of thousands of Italian students attending a mass demonstration in Rome on Friday 14 November against €1.5 billion cuts in the education sector, writes Sarah Wrack, Sussex Socialist Students.
23 April 2008
Italy: Left leaders opened way for Berlusconi victory
A victory for the right led by Silvio Berlusconi and an electoral 'bloodbath' for the Sinistra arcobaleno (Rainbow Left). Christine Thomas, Lotta, cwi Italy, writes.
16 April 2008
Italian election: new Berlusconi victory will provoke mass opposition
The election in Italy, which came after just 20 months of a weak centre-left government under Romano Prodi, has seen a 'comfortable' victory for Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom party...
14 June 2007
Anti-Bush day in Italy - A tale of two protests
GEORGE BUSH'S visit to Italy generated a huge protest by the anti-war and anti-globalisation movement...
29 March 2007
ON A recent visit to Italy, PETER TAAFFE, together with other CWI members, discussed perspectives with workers and activists in the Italian labour movement for the future of Rifondazione Comunista (Prc)...
1 March 2007
Italy: Political crisis grips Prodi government
But Prc lacks coherent alternative policies: ON 21 February, the Italian coalition government faced collapse when the Prime Minister, Romano Prodi tendered his resignation. ...
22 November 2006
Six months after it narrowly defeated the right-wing government of Silvio Berlusconi, Romano Prodi's centre-left coalition in Italy is hanging by a thread....
4 May 2006
End of Berlusconi era - clean break needed with neo-liberal policies
Italy: SILVIO BERLUSCONI, the tycoon prime minister of Italy for five years, has finally resigned. The general election of 9-10 April gave the centre-left Unione alliance a paper thin majority in both houses of parliament (See article...
11 December 2004
Italy stops in fifth general strike against Berlusconi
ON 30 November in Italy there was the fifth general strike against the Berlusconi government. It stopped the country...
16 October 2004
Italy - Mass Struggle And The Forces Of The Left
ITALY IS the country in which the anti-globalisation and anti-war protests of the new century have brought the greatest numbers onto the streets - up to 3 million on 15 February, 2003...
8 May 2004
Strikes in Italy: Just The Tip Of The Iceberg
THIS YEAR'S May Day came at a time of heightened tension in Italian society and of some of the most dramatic strike struggles in Europe. CLARE DOYLE reports...
10 January 2004
Parmalat Workers Shafted By Capitalist Greed
WORKERS AT the main production base in Italy of "Europe's Enron" have no sympathy for those they call the "magnificent eight" locked up in Milan's notorious San Vittore prison...
1 November 2003
Italy: Battle Is Joined Over Pensions 'Reform'
AROUND 10 million salaried workers in Italy took part in a strike called by the CGIL, CISL and UIL trade union federations unions last week, with demonstrations in 100 cities...
6 September 2003
Italy - a 'hot autumn' awaits Berlusconi
ITALIAN SOCIALIST Fabrizio Cucchi, (a member of Lotta per il socialismo - CWI, Italy) on a recent visit to London, spoke to the socialist...
18 May 2001
Italian general election: Mr Big buys his way to power
RIGHT-WING BILLIONAIRE Silvio Berlusconi, has won the Italian general election...
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