From Socialist Worker…
On Monday students at Rome’s La Sapienza university occupied, and stopped Roberto Fiore, leader of the hard line fascist Forza Nuova from addressing a conference. Fiore spent much of the 1980s in Britain, having fled Italy after being sought for involvement in the 1980 bombing of Bologna station which killed 85 people.
On Tuesday [...]

Tina Modotti…

One can safely say the govts of France, Spain and Italy are the most racist assholes in the European continent…

From AFP…
Between 3,000 to 4,000 people gathered Saturday to protest against the Turin book fair’s decision to showcase Israeli writers, an AFP photographer at the scene said.
“Free Palestine” organizers put the demonstration’s attendance at 10,000, while police said 1,500 had turned out to criticize the book fair’s choice to highlight 60 years of the Jewish [...]

Via the Partisan…

A photo I took in Rome, March 2006…

I received a copy of the following letter…
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His Excellency Hosni Mubarak
President of the Arab Republic of EgyptThe Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Italy
p.c.: Guy Ryder
ITUC General Secretary
Bruxelles
Esteemed Mr. President,
CGIL, CISL and UIL wish to express our most serious condemnation of the recent imprisonment sentence against Mr. Kamal Abbas, General Coordinator of [...]

Al-Masry Al-Youm reports on the solidarity the Mahalla strikers received from the Italian trade unionists… Click on the poster below to read the details…

John Molyneux wrote two blog postings, providing brief historical background on the rise and fall of the Third Communist International.
Click below to read the first posting…

[Above: Panel of Diego Rivera's mural at Unity House, depicting the labor movement and labor radicalism. Addressing the struggle between labor and capital, the mural includes images of Karl Marx, [...]

After State Security banned them from travelling to Italy last Friday, Abu Omar’s wife Nabila Ghaly and her son Mohamed Abdel Hakim were finally allowed to leave Alexandria for Milan Tuesday morning…

[Above: Abu Omar el-Masri; Rendered by the CIA, tortured by Mubarak's regime. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy, taken on 3 June 2007.]

Abu Omar’s wife and her son were banned by State Security from travelling to Italy Friday early morning.

[Above: Abu Omar at the Cairo Lawyers' Syndicate. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy, taken on 3 June 2007.]
Nabila Ghali, 38, and 14-year-old Italian-born Mohamed Abdel Hakim were due to leave Alexandria today on a 4am flight to Milan via [...]

Abu Omar finally met his Italian lawyer Carmelo Scambia Sunday in Cairo, where he signed the official documents to get Scambia on the case. The two later went to the Italian Consulate in Cairo, without a prior appointment, accompanied by Abu Omar’s Egyptian lawyer Montasser el-Zayat.

[Above: Abu Omar signing the power of attorney, in the [...]