Chris Thomas is a member of Resistenze Internazional (CWI in Italy). The 4th March general election has caused the biggest shake-up of the Italian political landscape in over 20 years. Not since the ‘clean hands’ corruption scandal of the early ‘90s have the establishment parties been so severely wounded. Renzi’s Democratic Party (PD) suffered a […]
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Chris Thomas is a member of ControCorrente (CWI in Italy). No party in Italy has solution for long-term problems of workers and youth In January 2014, on the day that Matteo Renzi took office, we wrote that this was the beginning of the end for the leader of the Democratic Party (PD), who at that […]
Continue ReadingChris Thomas is a member of ControCorrente (CWI in Italy). New political voice vitally needed Seventy per cent of all workers in Italy stopped work during the national general strike on 12 December called by the CGIL and UIL union federations. Thousands marched in more than 50 cities all across the country. This was a […]
Continue ReadingChris Thomas is a member of ControCorrente (CWI in Italy). Letta government faces continuing economic and social crisis “Berlusconi is dead” declared one of the closest collaborators of il Cavaliere at the end of the worst week in his political career. Having dominated Italian politics for nearly 20 years Berlusconi was forced into a humiliating […]
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