Italy
Berlusconi government incites racist pogroms
By Stefan Steinberg, May 23, 2008
On Wednesday, May 21, at an extraordinary sitting in the city of Naples the recently nominated cabinet of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi passed harsh new laws directed against immigrants. Th...
Italy: Berlusconi’s new government promotes xenophobia
By Marianne Arens, May 16, 2008
Nicolo Tommasoli was buried in the city of Verona last Saturday. The 29-year-old had been beaten to death on May 1 by neo-Nazis. A silent crowd of over 300 mourners escorted his coffin to the grave. I...
Former fascist elected mayor of Rome
By Marianne Arens, May 3, 2008
Two weeks after the victory of Silvio Berlusconi in the Italian parliamentary elections, the city of Rome, which for decades has been governed by centre-left parties, has fallen into the hands of the ...
The collapse of Rifondazione Comunista in Italy
The price of opportunism
By Peter Schwarz, April 25, 2008
The debacle of the Rainbow Left in the recent Italian parliamentary elections will go down in political textbooks as a prime example of the price of opportunism. The Rainbow electoral alliance consist...
Collapse of “left” parties enables Berlusconi to win Italian election
By Peter Schwarz, April 16, 2008
Just two years after being voted out of office, the media magnate Silvio Berlusconi will become head of the Italian government for a third time. His right-wing alliance “People of Freedom”...
Italian elections: polls favour Berlusconi comeback
By Peter Schwarz, April 12, 2008
According to the latest opinion polls, Silvio Berlusconi is likely to be elected as Italy’s prime minister for the third time in parliamentary elections set for this Sunday and Monday. The two c...
Italy: parties shift to the right as election campaign begins
By Marianne Arens and Peter Schwarz, March 17, 2008
One month before Italy goes to the polls on April 13 and 14, the election campaign is in full swing. Despite the usual demagogy, it is evident that all of the established political parties have moved ...
Elections called in Italy
By Peter Schwarz, February 12, 2008
President Giorgio Napolitano dissolved the two chambers of the Italian legislature, the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, February 6 after efforts to form an interim government had failed. New elect...
Government crisis in Italy
Romano Prodi resigns
By Marianne Arens, January 28, 2008
On January 24, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned following a vote of no confidence against his government in the Senate. This means an end to his centre-left government, which included in i...
Italian judge seeks trial of 140 over Operation Condor repression
By Bill Van Auken, January 15, 2008
An Italian judge has issued orders for the preventive arrest pending deportation of at least 140 former officials of military dictatorships that ruled seven Latin American countries between the 1960s ...
Prodi government’s budget attacks the Italian working class
By Marc Wells, October 10, 2007
The 2008 budget approved by the Prodi government at the end of September is a massive and cynical attack against the living standards of millions of Italian workers who are progressively losing decade...
Italian government pushes through pension “reform”
Prodi completes what Berlusconi began
By Marianne Arens, August 13, 2007
After overnight negotiations, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi won the agreement on July 20, of Italy’s biggest trade unions for his latest so-called pension “reform.” The Prodi r...
