Right wing hammered in Italy's elections
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The former government parties of Silvio Berlusconi and Umberto Bossi were emphatically defeated in Italy’s administrative elections of 6-7 May.
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Italy's Northern League implodes
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In 1992 Italy was engulfed by the corruption scandal “Tangentopoli” (bribesville). That, Italy’s most serious post-war political crisis, saw the end of the First Republic and all its major political parties.
Strong women in Italian politics
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Whilst I was delighted that Solidarity 240 contained not just one but two articles about Italy (Hugh Edwards, “Strike wave sweeps Italy”, and Kate Devine, “Italian feminism resurgent?”) and agreed with much of their content, I did feel that cumulatively they gave a somewhat skewed impression of the current role of women in Italian politics and public life.
Italian feminism resurgent?
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Kate Devine, Erasmus student at the University of Turin, looks into the recent resurgence of feminism in Italy, and asks what has brought tens of thousands into the streets.
Strike wave sweeps Italy
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Since the news on 20 March that the leadership of Italy’s largest union confederation, CGIL, had voted down acceptance of the proposed abolition by Mario Monti’s government of the job-security provisi
What is Fascism and how do we fight it?
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Date:
27 March, 2012 - 18:00 - 20:00
Location:
The Pilgrim Pub, 34 Pilgrim Street, L1 9HB Liverpool, United Kingdom
Description:
The history of Fascism in Europe is taught in school as if it was some kind of one-off, an aberration of mystical, unspeakable evil that will never be repeated.
Hundreds of hours of TV and in classrooms is spent pouring over details; the horrors of the Second World War, ...the concentration camps, and the Holocaust. However in terms of any real explanation for how these events came to happen in a modern, literate, industrialised society, we get little which goes beyond superficial study of the personalities; everything from the childhoods to the sex lives of the leading individuals.
Marxists seek to understand the world and the actions of people in it scientifically. Fascism grew out of a specific historical context: The aftermath of the First World War and the greatest crisis of capitalism in the 20th century.
Join Merseyside Workers’ Liberty for a discussion of how Fascism developed in war-exhausted and crisis-ridden Italy and Germany, how the powerful workers’ movements in those countries were politically disorientated and smashed, and what lessons our movement can draw from that experience in order to fight the likes of the BNP and EDL today...
Facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/events/354771374543818/
Italy: United front or class collaboration?
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It was with some surprise that I found myself accused of a “too sweeping attack” on the the Italian trade union leadership, specifically that of CGIL (Solidarity 231).
Too sweeping on Italian union leaders
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I agree with a lot of Hugh Edwards’s article (“Italy’s corruption crisis needs workers’ solutions”, Solidarity 230, 18 January 2012), especially his scepticism about the Monti government’s crackdown on tax evasion and corruption (which is a structural problem of Italian capitalism and will not disappear just because Berlusconi has been replaced by somebody who does not engage in tax fraud, false accounting and the bribery of public officials).
Costa Concordia: cruise industry workers must organise
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The tragic Costa Concordia sinking off the coast of Tuscany, with the loss of 15 lives and 20 people still missing, has turned the spotlight on the cruise industry, a world dedicated to pandering to the snobbery and greed of the rich and wannabe-rich.
Italy's corruption crisis needs workers' solutions
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The so-called “united campaign” of Italy’s three main trade union confederations against Prime Minister Mario Monti’s first austerity measures ended as quickly and as farcically as it began in mid-December.