Italy
Italian officials ignored tenants' complaints in apartment building collapse
By Rosa Ieropoli, December 15, 1999
For two years before the collapse of an Italian apartment building, which killed 67 people, tenants complained to local officials that they feared the building was unsafe. Only days before the disaste...
Demonstrations to protest Italian government plan to end free access to universities
By Rosa Ieropoli, November 12, 1999
Demonstrations are planned for November 17 in all the principal cities throughout Italy to protest a government plan that would deny university education to hundreds of thousands of students. The Unio...
Italy to create a professional army
By Carola Kleinert and Andy Niklaus, September 24, 1999
On September 3, during the first meeting of the cabinet following the summer break, the Italian government passed a new law which will, by the year 2005, abolish compulsory military service in favour ...
The United States of Italy
By Emanuele Saccarelli, August 9, 1999
The following comment was submitted to the WSWS by a reader living in Rome.
Poverty and unemployment in Italy
Conditions for workers deteriorate under the centre-left D'Alema government
By Emanuele Saccarelli, July 30, 1999
Statistics on poverty in Italy for the year 1998 were recently released. According to the report there were 2,558,000 poor families in Italy last year. This figure translates to 7,432,000 poor people,...
After the European elections: the view from Italy
By Emanuele Saccarelli, July 1, 1999
The following article was sent by a reader in Italy. The WSWS editorial board encourages readers and supporters around the world to submit articles of analysis and commentary on political and cultural...
Attempted reform of Italian electoral laws collapses
By Peter Schwarz, April 22, 1999
The attempt to introduce a first-past-the-post electoral system in Italy through the mechanism of a popular referendum has failed due to insufficient voter participation. At least half of the potentia...
Sunday referendum in Italy to decide on voting system
By Christopher Sverige, April 16, 1999
Sunday April 18 will witness the latest in a series of moves toward a more business-friendly political system in Italy. A referendum will be held on the question of replacing the current mixed elector...
US pilot who killed twenty on ski gondola acquitted
By David Walsh, March 6, 1999
Relatives of the victims and ordinary Italians reacted with outrage to the acquittal of an American marine pilot whose plane, flying too low and faster than rules permitted, cut through a cable car li...
Italian workers protest threats by government
By Rosa Ieropoli and Christopher Sverige, February 25, 1999
Workers in Italy have mounted a nine-day series of work stoppages in protest of the government's plan to attack any future strikes by workers in the occupations designated as "public services."
Italian PDS founds new party
By Wolfgang Weber, February 27, 1998
A three-day meeting in mid-February saw the founding of a new party, the Democratici di Sinistra (DS–Left Democrats). The ceremony was presided over by the ex-Stalinists of the PDS (Partito Demo...
