Regions / Europe / Italy

From Genoa to Marseille, dockworkers are disrupting the arms trade with Israel – and facing sackings, bans and state repression for doing so. Dalia Ismail reports.

From Shëngjin to Gjadër, Italy’s offshore detention centres in Albania revive colonial shadows as Europe pushes its borders – and its responsibilities – ever further from view. Dalia Ismail reports.

As Israel’s third-largest weapons supplier, Italy profits from the genocide in Gaza. Yet dockworkers and students are reviving traditions of international solidarity to challenge this complicity, writes Romana Rubeo.

Francesca Albanese has stepped out of the United Nations’ structures to speak directly to the world’s people about the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Bethany Rielly meets her.

Report on the people smuggling trial in Trapani, by Ben Cowles.

Italy’s extremist prime minister is courting politicians abroad even as she enacts an authoritarian agenda of hate at home. But Giorgia Meloni’s embrace by the mainstream needs to end, argues Elena Siniscalco.

The newly elected leader of Italy’s main opposition Italian Democratic Party (PD).

The 2022 prime minister of Italy.

Art for art’s sake.

Juliet Ferguson investigates the Energy Charter Treaty, an international agreement which could be very bad news for energy policy across the Global South.

Italy is under pressure to stop using offshore quarantine ferries, reports Karlos Zurutuza.

Report from Italy by Alessio Perrone.

Report from Italy by Alessio Perrone.

Matteo Salvini, Italy’s ‘refugee drowner-in-chief’, is put under the spotlight.

Xylella is behind an unprecedented crisis in southern Apulia.

The Ciambra directed and written by Jonas Carpignano;
In the Fade directed and co-written by Fatih Akin.

What is life really like for millennials? What kind of jobs do they do? What do they make of their precarious futures? We look at the lives of three young people across the world: a Gambian migrant in Italy, a Dalit student in India, and a trans vlogger in the UK.

Protests in southern Italy have delayed plans for construction of a vast natural-gas pipeline into Europe, writes Sarah Shoraka.

The politician symbolizes a shot across the bow of Italy’s complacent political class, writes Richard Swift.

Stories to give us cheer this month.