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Antifascism can be served with a pot of overcooked pasta. On July 25, 1943, after twenty-one years of dictatorship, Benito Mussolini was…
In the summer of 2021, the GKN auto parts factory near the Italian city of Florence was closed, and over 400 workers…
Mark Twain and Winston Churchill are both purported to have once said that a lie can travel half-way around the world before…
Workers in more than 20 Mediterranean ports are preparing for an international day of action on 6 February to oppose the growing…
In Italy, the bell that signals the start of the school day has recently sounded like a call to armsānot for war,…
A powerful wave of international labour and civil society solidarity with Palestine, focused on blocking supplies to Israel, was led by striking…
Across Europe, āfar-rightā parties are gaining power and steering the political climate. On the road to the European Union, parties once grounded…
It appears that the citizen outpouring of rage and discontent over Trumpās autocratic actions resulted in over 2,500 No Kings protests and…
On 26 October, Caroline Willemen of MĆ©decins Sans FrontiĆØres stated that Israel continues to use the need for humanitarian aid in Gaza…
From this moment, we call every worker, every citizen, every democratic and solidarity organization to block everything: production, logistics, transport, school, services…
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