Tag Archives: Bologna

[fr] Expulsion des occupants du dernier squat de Bologne

Posted on 2016/10/20 by Struggles in Italy

Le 11 Octobre dernier, le dernier squat d’un immeuble de Bologne situé rue Mario Di Maria dans le quartier ouvrier de Bolognina, comptant une centaine de personnes dont 34 enfants fut fermé par les forces de l’ordre. En effet selon … Continue reading →

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[en] Last remaining housing occupation in Bologna has been evicted

Posted on 2016/10/15 by Struggles in Italy

The eviction of the last remaining housing occupation in Bologna – around 100 people, 34 of them children, living in a building in Via Mario De Maria, in the working-class neighborhood of Bolognina – started at dawn on October 11. … Continue reading →

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[en] What is really happening in Bologna

Posted on 2015/11/20 by Struggles in Italy

Bologna has always been a laboratory, both for social movements and for their counterparts. Bologna “the Red”, the industrialized city with one of the strongest worker movements in Italy, is now facing great changes, that started years ago and are … Continue reading →

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[en] 280 people occupy building in Bologna

Posted on 2014/12/04 by Struggles in Italy

A large building in Bologna, immediately in front of the Municipality’s offices, has just been occupied by 280 people. Many have been living on the streets or in the train station after losing their jobs and homes during the crisis. … Continue reading →

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[en] Renzi’s EU election victory fuels wave of evictions and arrests

Posted on 2014/06/05 by Struggles in Italy

A wave of evictions and arrests of militants from radical and housing rights movements began just a few days after the notable victory of Matteo Renzi’s Democratic Party in the European elections. The operation’s goal is clear: to evict and … Continue reading →

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[en] Narrow-minded? Bologna’s PD council tries to evict Atlantide social centre

Posted on 2014/04/14 by Struggles in Italy

Atlantide is a social centre in the Santo Stefano neighbourhood in the heart of Bologna’s old town. More precisely, it is situated in the cassero, an historic building which forms part of the city’s medieval gates. Atlantide was occupied in 1997 … Continue reading →

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[en] Political turmoil inside CGIL

Posted on 2014/03/19 by Struggles in Italy

  The CGIL is Italy’s largest confederation of trade unions (secretary: Susanna Camusso) and includes as a member FIOM, the metalworkers’ federation (general secretary: Maurizio Landini; former president: Giorgio Cremaschi). Tension has been growing between CGIL and FIOM for some time and although there have been reassurances … Continue reading →

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[en] Bologna activists banished from the city

Posted on 2014/03/08 by Struggles in Italy

It sounds like news from a distant time, way back in Italian history, but it actually happened in 2014. On 6 March, 12 activists were forced to leave Bologna – their own city, where they live and have jobs and … Continue reading →

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[en] Social centres and the struggle for a different model of legalisation

Posted on 2014/02/18 by Struggles in Italy

Italy has one of the widest and strongest social centre movements in Europe. Social centres can be found all over the country in almost every medium-sized and large city, though they tend to be more concentrated in the big cities … Continue reading →

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[en] Granarolo protesters march through Bologna [photos]

Posted on 2014/02/03 by Struggles in Italy

Bologna saw 1,000 people marching on February 1st, to bring the claims of Granarolo workers to the attention of local and national authorities. There were logistics workers not only from Granarolo’s own warehouse but also from other warehouses across Northern … Continue reading →

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