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Freedom Flotilla Italia Makes Powerful Stop on the island of Procida: The Ghassan Kanafani Brings Hope and Resistance to the Island

This past weekend, the small and beautiful island of Procida offered a warm, heartfelt, and deeply moving welcome to the Freedom Flotilla Italia and...

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The Witch Hunt Continues: U.S. Appeals Court Allows Reinstatement of Sanctions on Francesca Albanese

In a disturbing escalation, a U.S. Court of Appeals has allowed the reinstatement of sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur...

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Witches Unite: How Israel and the US Empire Tried (and Failed) to Crush Francesca Albanese

The United States government, under first Biden and now Trump, has launched a full-scale assault on one of the most courageous and honest voices at...

14.05.2026 10

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Hungary’s Fake “Democratic” Revolution — From Orbán’s Mafia to Péter Magyar’s Neoliberal Circus

The international liberal commentariat is celebrating again. Viktor Orbán, the long-reigning right-wing strongman of Hungary, has been defeated in...

14.04.2026 20

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Italy’s Deadly Complicity: Meloni Backs Israel’s Expansionist Wars While Italian Troops Are Humiliated in Lebanon

On April 8, 2026, as Israel dropped over 160 bombs on Beirut in just 10 minutes — turning entire neighborhoods into rubble and killing dozens more...

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Italy’s Youth Deliver a Historic NO! The Gaza Generation Crushes Meloni’s Judicial Power Grab

In a stunning blow to Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government, Italian voters delivered a decisive rejection of a proposed constitutional referendum...

26.03.2026 30

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Italy’s Youth Deliver a Historic NO!

In a stunning blow to Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government, Italian voters delivered a decisive rejection of a proposed constitutional referendum...

26.03.2026 20

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From Toledo, Ohio to Rome, Italy: BDS and Grassroots Solidarity Defy the IHRA Smear and Israel’s Genocide

Two cities on opposite sides of the Atlantic—Toledo, Ohio, my hometown, and Rome, the ancient capital of Italy—are rising together in defiance of...

27.02.2026 30

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Operation Domino: Italy’s War on Palestinian Charity and the Criminalization of Survival

In a chilling escalation of state repression, the Italian government has launched a full-scale judicial assault on the Palestinian solidarity...

31.12.2025 30

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The Body as the Final Weapon: Palestine Action and the Spirit of Bobby Sands

When the machinery of the state is totally dedicated to the protection of genocide; when the courts act as private security for arms dealers and...

29.12.2025 50

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Italy In Revolt: Mass Protests Spread Throughout Europe and the Genocide in Gaza Continues

After the general strike on the 22nd of September, the mass uprising for an end to the genocide in Gaza, for an end to the Italian government’s...

08.10.2025 20

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No Other Land with Basel Adra from Palestine, to Procida, Italy and the World – We are all Palestinians

In April, we hosted a screening of the Academy Award-winning documentary film “No Other Land” on the island of Procida in the Gulf of Naples,...

20.06.2025 20

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