Italy
Italy: Trial of CIA agents deferred until October
By Marianne Arens, June 30, 2007
On June 18, a Milan court decided to defer to October the trial of those charged with abducting the Egyptian expatriate Imam Osama Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar. Judge Oscar Magi agreed to the m...
Italy’s former Communist Party shifts further to the right
By Marianne Arens and Peter Schwarz, May 12, 2007
The long march of Italy’s Communist Party to the right is unending.
Italy: Hostile reception in Rome for a leader of Communist Refoundation
By Marianne Arens, April 12, 2007
Four years ago, Fausto Bertinotti was a celebrated speaker on demonstrations opposing the Iraq war. Today, wherever he appears, he is regularly the butt of jeers and booing by opponents of the war. Th...
Rome: Thousands demonstrate against US war policy and the Prodi government
Rifondazione Comunista boycotts protest
By a WSWS reporting team, March 20, 2007
An estimated 30,000 people marched through the centre of Rome March 17 to protest against the Iraq war and the policies of Italy’s government. On the fourth anniversary of the US invasion of Ira...
Italian Pabloites back Prime Minister Prodi in Senate confidence vote
By Peter Schwarz, March 2, 2007
Romano Prodi will continue to lead the Italian government. On Wednesday he won a confidence vote by 162 to 157 in the Senate, where his nine-party coalition has a razor-thin majority. A total of 160 v...
Italy: Communist Refoundation gives Prodi a blank check for right-wing policies
By Dietmar Henning and Marianne Arens, February 26, 2007
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi is preparing to resume his duties as head of government following his sudden resignation last week. On Saturday, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano rejected Prodi...
Italian prime minister resigns after losing foreign policy vote
By Stefan Steinberg and Barry Grey, February 23, 2007
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi tendered his resignation Wednesday night after losing a Senate vote on his center-left coalition government’s foreign policy. The collapse of the nine-month-o...
Italy: 100,000 demonstrate against expansion of US base in Vicenza
By Marianne Arens, February 22, 2007
On February 17, some 100,000 protesters marched in the north Italian city of Vicenza against the planned expansion of the US Ederle military base. The six-kilometre-long march was also directed agains...
Italian judge indicts CIA agents for illegal kidnapping
By Richard Tyler, February 19, 2007
The US policy of “extraordinary renditions”—the illegal kidnap and transportation of supposed terror suspects to secret detention sites where they are then tortured—was the sub...
Italian court considers trial against CIA agents in rendition case
By Marianne Arens, January 29, 2007
Four years ago, Muslim cleric Abu Omar was kidnapped in Italy by US intelligence agents and transferred to an Egyptian torture prison. A hearing is currently taking place in Milan over the possible tr...
Italian right wing mobilizes against Prodi government
By Marianne Arens, December 12, 2006
Eight months after losing the April parliamentary elections the Italian right are continuing to contest their defeat.
Italian government implicated in cover-up of US “rendition”
By Marianne Arens and Peter Schwarz, November 10, 2006
The Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, better known as Abu Omar, was kidnapped in Milan in February 2003 in broad daylight and rendered by the CIA to Egypt, where he was tortured and where he re...
