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For more than a thousand years Venice has been the city symbol of the balance between Man and Nature; its magic comes from and lives in the extraordinary co-penetration of art and nature, stone and water, city and Lagoon.  This fragile equilibrium is seriously threatened by the industry of mass tourism, of which the mega cruise ships are one of the worst aspects: over-sized ... »

The devices of closure and of the strong restriction of freedom of movement that UE states are using can be seen as the symbol of the direction that governments apply in terms of citizenship and fundamental rights of peoples. Barriers, barbed wire, militarization of borders are in this moment the signals concerning the limitation of the welcome to the refugees and of ... »

The “Agire nella Crisi, confederate autonomies” assembly met on Sunday the 28th of February at the Social Center Rivolta and decided to organise two mobilitations against the Border Regime of Fortress Europe.The assembly invite to these events listed by chronological order:1. the “Overthefortress” March in Greece at the end of March (25th-29th) proposed by the ... »

The Italians are compliant people. This equation is a complete description of the last-years-Italy. Three governments, none of them elected by citizens, have given the final blow to the public universitary and educational system, have changed with the Jobs Act the “work rights” in “history of work rights” and have devasted territories with useless and imposed big ... »

The strenghtening of controls and the hypothesis of the closure of all the Austrian Southern and Eastern  borders represent a political pick up of the Austrian government that was long time foreseeable.In this famework Austria plays a central role from the geographical point of view and  even on the political management of migrations since it is the crossroads of two ... »

On July 13 the political and financial oligarchies of Europe imposed, with the knife at the throat, a program to Greece that the same mainstream economists call simply "impossible to enforce" even under capitalistic standards.Which was their real goal? They wanted to and had to demonstrate that there can be no viable alternative outside of the field of possibilities defined by ... »

There were no so everlasting tragedy in the Athens of the V century. Neither were they so articulated, complex, played by a variety of psychological and public roles making them nearer to the contemporary television drama than to the one of Sophocle’s piece.During last month, as we got nearer to the dead line of the 30th of June, we have seen the performances of all the ... »

Only few months have passed since a tiny crack opened in the European chain of command. The election in Greece, beyond the specific judge on Syriza party, delivered an unmistakable message: people had enough of austerity politics. Could a vote solve all the problems? Obviously not. Nobody believed this, but it was a sign that people want to take power back on their lives. What ... »

On January the 25th there will be elections in Greece. A left majority and a new government braking with the dictation of austerity from Berlin and Brussels appear within reach. For millions of people who lost their employment, their health care and their income, this gives cause for hope. And that applies not only for Greece but well beyond. Similar processes of ... »

The consolidation of the Renzi government and reforms' bloc, in the context of the EU presidency semester, marks a second phase of austerity politics, within which feeble concessions to middle classes in order to stabilize balances between different social blocs coexist with the deepening of the attack against income and the deterioration of overall living conditions. The ... »