Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Friday, 10 July 2026

Divisions in the Core of Global Capitalism? Italian Labour and ‘Free Trade’

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The global labour movement has been divided over ‘free trade’. Many unions in the Global North, especially in export-oriented sectors, suppo...
Tuesday, 20 July 2021

Fighting for Water book launch: Recording and Responses to questions.

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In my new book Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe (Zed Books), I am investigating the underlying dynamics of the success...
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Tuesday, 14 April 2020

Moving towards Social Europe? The EU post-2008 crisis economic governance regime under review.

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Photo by Yanni Koutsomitis Following the 2008 financial crisis, the European Union adopted a new economic governance regime. As  Jamie ...
Sunday, 24 March 2019

Wellsprings of resistance – struggles over water in Europe

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The question of who controls water and for what purpose makes water inherently political. Whether it’s water sources, water production su...
Monday, 30 July 2018

Holding on – The public water company Acqua Bene Comune in Naples.

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In the ongoing struggles over public water in Italy, it is the municipality of Naples and its water company Acqua Bene Comune (ABC), whic...
Thursday, 28 June 2018

Privatisation by stealth: ongoing struggles for public water in Italy.

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On 12 and 13 June 2011, the Italian Water Movements Forum secured a clear victory in the referendum against water privatisation. More th...
Tuesday, 27 October 2015

“Sic Vos Non Vobis” (For You, But Not Yours): The Struggle for Public Water in Italy.

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Resistance against water privatisation is one of the success stories in the struggle against neo-liberal globalisation. And where priva...
Thursday, 13 November 2014

The Struggle for Public Water in Italy

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On 9 October, I gave the paper ‘Sic Vos Non Vobis’ – ‘For You, But Not Yours’: The struggle for public water in Italy at the Department ...
Friday, 20 June 2014

Catholics in the Italian water movement!

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Last week the Italian Water Movements Forum (Forum) celebrated the anniversary of the victory in the 2011 referenda against water privatisa...
Wednesday, 7 May 2014

The perpetuum mobile of privatisation

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Privatisation is a truly fantastic thing. Privatising public services would result in four benign consequences, we are told: (1) the produc...
Sunday, 4 May 2014

Fighting against water privatisation in Italy: La lotta continua!

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Victory in the 2011 referendum against water privatisation had been emphatic. More than 57 per cent of the Italian electorate cas...
Thursday, 1 May 2014

Fighting against water privatisation in Italy: Road to Victory!

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Against the background of the global and Eurozone financial crises as well as austerity sweeping across Europe, the pressure on privatisi...
Sunday, 23 March 2014

Renzi’s Reforms, Italian Trade Unions and the EU!

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In a previous post in December 2013 (see The Election of Matteo Renzi and the Future of Italian Trade Unions ) Darragh Golden discussed t...
Monday, 16 December 2013

The Election of Matteo Renzi and the Future of Italian Trade Unions

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Matteo Renzi, mayor of Florence, was recently elected leader of the Italian Partito Democratico (Democratic Party). All Italians could vot...
Tuesday, 19 November 2013

The white terror – Déjà vu about fascism and the reactionary turn of our time.

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In the summer of 1980, Italian fascists blew up the central station in “red” Bologna. 85 people were killed, more than 200 were wounded. ...
Tuesday, 22 November 2011

The imposition of austerity and the move to authoritarian government - Part I

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While bankers have caused the global financial crisis, it is now working people who are asked to pay for the bill. Austerity programme after...