Mediterraneo, Società Civile, Politica e Interculturalità
After the Turkish attack along the Syrian borders against the Kurdish “Syrian Democratic Forces” (SDF), an international mobilization materialized against Erdogan’s move, calling for stopping the war against the Kurds. In my country, Italy, many leftist groups called for saving Rojava’s model of democratic and libertarian municipalism, protest events were posted on Facebook, and the…
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Vaggelis Karageorgos died last July 22, 2019. He was my age and was surprised by the Angel of Death in his bed, when a heart attack made him prematurely leaving this Earth. I had met him for the first time at SabirFest 2016, and since then we remained spiritually close friends. Vaggelis was first of…
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Il y a quelques jours, après que le ministre de l’Intérieur italien Mr Salvini eut bloqué l’accès aux ports italiens du navire de secours Aquarius, qui transportait plus que 600 immigrés récupérés en plein mer, le porte-parole de La République en Marche, Mr Attal, a qualifié la décision italienne avec une expression décidément vigoureuse : « À…
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Finalmente il governo. Il governo del cambiamento. Con cinque donne su una ventina di ministri. Anche il governo Gentiloni ne aveva cinque, il governo Renzi ne aveva sei. Almeno da questo punto di vista, di cambiamento non è. Queste, però, sono quisquiglie. Quello che conta è che è nato un governo un poco di destra…
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We are hosting here an interesting analysis of the Austrian social and political context after the recent parliamentary elections by my friend Agnes Tuna (*), highlighting the irreversible impact of anti-immigrant narratives and the strategic failure of Left parties. It has only been four times in the past 72 years, after the end of World…
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Quanto sta succedendo in Catalogna non rimette solo in discussione il principio della indissolubilità dello Stato-Nazione, ma anche quello di autodeterminazione popolare. Di fronte ad un movimento che rivendica il diritto a votare sulla propria identità nazionale e sulla sua traduzione istituzionale, si è scatenata la reazione internazionale di tutte le cancellerie, dei partiti storici…
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Rome, sixty years later. Children swarm into the streets and the gardens of the Capital, where cars cannot drive, and walls are covered with placards. The spring has just found its way through, and fresh grass grows between the sampietrini and along the rifts on the asphalt. An old man in a line 19’s tramway…
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Despite the fact that Donald Trump, addressing his supporters in New York right after having received the news that he would be the new president, said: “It is time for us to come together as one united people. It is time”, many voiced out their hostility marching a few hours later in the streets of…
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