Italy protests in support of Palestine September22, 2025
A few weeks ago, port workers in Genoa threatened a total shutdown in case Israel stopped or touched the Global Sumud Flotilla, in which dozens of boats heading to Gaza to try to break the Israeli siege and blockade. This call for struggle was folded by student organizations that also threatened a paralysis.
Those pronouncements were the fuse of the most general and powerful action that has been deployed on Monday throughout Italy in solidarity with the Palestinian people including the main cities, with blockades, strikes, marches, and clashes with the police, which has responded with a brutal repression.
Italians protest in support of Palestine September 21, 2025
Comment: The dockworkers have followed through:
Those pronouncements were the fuse of the most general and powerful action that has been deployed on Monday throughout Italy in solidarity with the Palestinian people including the main cities, with blockades, strikes, marches, and clashes with the police, which has responded with a brutal repression.
With the slogan "Blocchiamo Tutto" ("We Block Everything" by Gaza), at least 80 cities in Italy, including Milan, Rome, Naples and Florence are part of the mass mobilizations.
The day began with blockades and paralysis in strategic locations such as ports and railways in support of the Palestinian people and against the genocide in Gaza.
In Firenze, Roberto Marchese, a railroad worker and correspondent for La Voce delle Lotte and the La Izquierda Diario International Network, commented earlier that "10,000 workers and students blocked the highway and marched to the industrial and logistics centers during this day of general strike launched by the USB, CUB and COBAS unions." Marchese said this should be a first step towards a major shutdown and denounced the role of one of the main central, the CGIL for "dividing the protests and not calling for a general strike of all the unions, against cuts, rearmament and complicity with the Zionist genocide."
Also highlighted is the great participation of students in the strike and the day of mobilization. In Rome, the Faculty of Letters of La Sapienza University is occupied. Protesters expressing solidarity with Gaza stormed the facility occupying the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, chanting "Free Palestine."
According to the USB union, pro-Gaza demonstrations across Italy gathered some 500,000 participants in 65 cities. "All of Italy's major ports, 90% of public transport and 50% of railways were blocked," they said.
The port of Livorno remained completely blocked and palarized. There high school students joined the workers, in a march of 2500 people arrived at the customs checkpoint in Valessini.
Despite heavy rains, some 10,000 people demonstrated in Brescia, led by a column of students with the flag "We Block Everything".
A few weeks ago, port workers in Genoa threatened a total shutdown in case Israel stopped or touched the Global Sumud Flotilla, in which dozens of boats heading to Gaza to try to break the Israeli siege and blockade. This call for struggle was folded by student organizations that also threatened a paralysis.
Those pronouncements were the fuse of the most general and powerful action that has been deployed on Monday throughout Italy in solidarity with the Palestinian people including the main cities, with blockades, strikes, marches, and clashes with the police, which has responded with a brutal repression.
With the slogan "Blocchiamo Tutto" ("We Block Everything" by Gaza), at least 80 cities in Italy, including Milan, Rome, Naples and Florence are part of the mass mobilizations.
The day began with blockades and paralysis in strategic locations such as ports and railways in support of the Palestinian people and against the genocide in Gaza.
In Firenze, Roberto Marchese, a railroad worker and correspondent for La Voce delle Lotte and the La Izquierda Diario International Network, commented earlier that "10,000 workers and students blocked the highway and marched to the industrial and logistics centers during this day of general strike launched by the USB, CUB and COBAS unions." Marchese said this should be a first step towards a major shutdown and denounced the role of one of the main central, the CGIL for "dividing the protests and not calling for a general strike of all the unions, against cuts, rearmament and complicity with the Zionist genocide."
Also highlighted is the great participation of students in the strike and the day of mobilization. In Rome, the Faculty of Letters of La Sapienza University is occupied. Protesters expressing solidarity with Gaza stormed the facility occupying the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, chanting "Free Palestine."
According to the USB union, pro-Gaza demonstrations across Italy gathered some 500,000 participants in 65 cities. "All of Italy's major ports, 90% of public transport and 50% of railways were blocked," they said.
The port of Livorno remained completely blocked and paralyzed. There high school students joined the workers, in a march of 2500 people arrived at the customs checkpoint in Valessini.
Despite heavy rains, some 10,000 people demonstrated in Brescia, led by a column of students with the flag "We Block Everything".
In Milan, police attacked protesters, who wanted to block the subway station and trains, with tear gas and protesters responded by arming barricades with garbage cans, bicycles and other objects on the Via Vittor Pisani to prevent the advance of police vans.
The protesters also used the station's water cannons against the police. The smoke from the flares flooded the area and graffiti also appeared with the legend "ACAB" (acronym for "All the policemen are bastards") at the entrances of the subway.
In Genoa 20,000 people marched through the streets in support of the Sumud Global Flotilla and against the genocide in Gaza. The march began in the port area of San Benigno and continued through the port before reaching the city center.
The port workers led the mobilization with a flag that read "Stop arms trafficking in ports" and was accompanied by hundreds of Palestinian flags. Little by little, many more joined the march, which stopped outside the Port Authority headquarters to say, "Enough of complicity with Israel and enough arms trafficking in the ports!"
In Turin, more than 10,000 people marched through the streets, occupied the train tracks and burned a photo of Meloni and Netanyahu.
Italian McDonald's employees hung a Palestinian flag over the counter where orders are taken, September 22, 2025
Comment: The first alarm bell. Italians need to beware. "Bella Ciao" is one of the anthems of radical leftists, such as Antifa. Sincere protestors must not let their activities be hijacked by 'bad actors'.
In front of the former Microtecnica factory, some protesters took a makeshift scenario and said: "We are blocking ports and stations in solidarity with Palestine, the Flotilla and against the Meloni government, which has never questioned economic agreements with Israel."
In Trieste, about three thousand people gathered in front of the port. The USB Trieste union, in a statement, explained that the initiative "arises from the call of the dockers of Genoa, who have already demonstrated the strength and dignity of those who refuse to be complicit in wars and massacres. Today, that call has been answered throughout Italy, and the mobilization promises to be massive, with ports, factories, transportation, schools and public services paralyzed."
The USB unions also said that "Trieste, border city and strategic center of international trade, cannot remain indifferent. Paralyzing the works in the port means affecting a key point of the economic chains that fuel wars and discharge social costs on communities. Few people may know, but the port of Trieste has long been considered an important trade route to Israel."
A few weeks ago, port workers in Genoa threatened a total shutdown in case Israel stopped or touched the Global Sumud Flotilla, in which dozens of boats heading to Gaza to try to break the Israeli siege and blockade. This call for struggle was folded by student organizations that also threatened a paralysis.
Those pronouncements were the fuse of the most general and powerful action that has been deployed on Monday throughout Italy in solidarity with the Palestinian people including the main cities, with blockades, strikes, marches, and clashes with the police, which has responded with a brutal repression.
With the slogan "Blocchiamo Tutto" ("We Block Everything" by Gaza), at least 80 cities in Italy, including Milan, Rome, Naples and Florence are part of the mass mobilizations.
The day began with blockades and paralysis in strategic locations such as ports and railways in support of the Palestinian people and against the genocide in Gaza.
In Firenze, Roberto Marchese, a railroad worker and correspondent for La Voce delle Lotte and the La Izquierda Diario International Network, commented earlier that "10,000 workers and students blocked the highway and marched to the industrial and logistics centers during this day of general strike launched by the USB, CUB and COBAS unions." Marchese said this should be a first step towards a major shutdown and denounced the role of one of the main central, the CGIL for "dividing the protests and not calling for a general strike of all the unions, against cuts, rearmament and complicity with the Zionist genocide."
Also highlighted is the great participation of students in the strike and the day of mobilization. In Rome, the Faculty of Letters of La Sapienza University is occupied. Protesters expressing solidarity with Gaza stormed the facility occupying the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, chanting "Free Palestine."
According to the USB union, pro-Gaza demonstrations across Italy gathered some 500,000 participants in 65 cities. "All of Italy's major ports, 90% of public transport and 50% of railways were blocked," they said.
The port of Livorno remained completely blocked and palarized. There high school students joined the workers, in a march of 2500 people arrived at the customs checkpoint in Valessini.
Despite heavy rains, some 10,000 people demonstrated in Brescia, led by a column of students with the flag "We Block Everything".
In Milan, police attacked protesters, who wanted to block the subway station and trains, with tear gas and protesters responded by arming barricades with garbage cans, bicycles and other objects on the Via Vittor Pisani to prevent the advance of police vans.
The protesters also used the station's water cannons against the police. The smoke from the flares flooded the area and graffiti also appeared with the legend "ACAB" (acronym for "All the policemen are bastards") at the entrances of the subway.
A few weeks ago, port workers in Genoa threatened a total shutdown in case Israel stopped or touched the Global Sumud Flotilla, in which dozens of boats heading to Gaza to try to break the Israeli siege and blockade. This call for struggle was folded by student organizations that also threatened a paralysis.
Those pronouncements were the fuse of the most general and powerful action that has been deployed on Monday throughout Italy in solidarity with the Palestinian people including the main cities, with blockades, strikes, marches, and clashes with the police, which has responded with a brutal repression.
With the slogan "Blocchiamo Tutto" ("We Block Everything" by Gaza), at least 80 cities in Italy, including Milan, Rome, Naples and Florence are part of the mass mobilizations.
The day began with blockades and paralysis in strategic locations such as ports and railways in support of the Palestinian people and against the genocide in Gaza.
In Firenze, Roberto Marchese, a railroad worker and correspondent for La Voce delle Lotte and the La Izquierda Diario International Network, commented earlier that "10,000 workers and students blocked the highway and marched to the industrial and logistics centers during this day of general strike launched by the USB, CUB and COBAS unions." Marchese said this should be a first step towards a major shutdown and denounced the role of one of the main central, the CGIL for "dividing the protests and not calling for a general strike of all the unions, against cuts, rearmament and complicity with the Zionist genocide."
Also highlighted is the great participation of students in the strike and the day of mobilization. In Rome, the Faculty of Letters of La Sapienza University is occupied. Protesters expressing solidarity with Gaza stormed the facility occupying the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, chanting "Free Palestine."
According to the USB union, pro-Gaza demonstrations across Italy gathered some 500,000 participants in 65 cities. "All of Italy's major ports, 90% of public transport and 50% of railways were blocked," they said.
The port of Livorno remained completely blocked and palarized. There high school students joined the workers, in a march of 2500 people arrived at the customs checkpoint in Valessini.
Despite heavy rains, some 10,000 people demonstrated in Brescia, led by a column of students with the flag "We Block Everything".
In Milan, police attacked protesters, who wanted to block the subway station and trains, with tear gas and protesters responded by arming barricades with garbage cans, bicycles and other objects on the Via Vittor Pisani to prevent the advance of police vans.
The protesters also used the station's water cannons against the police. The smoke from the flares flooded the area and graffiti also appeared with the legend "ACAB" (acronym for "All the policemen are bastards") at the entrances of the subway.
In Genoa 20,000 people marched through the streets in support of the Sumud Global Flotilla and against the genocide in Gaza. The march began in the port area of San Benigno and continued through the port before reaching the city center.
The port workers led the mobilization with a flag that read "Stop arms trafficking in ports" and was accompanied by hundreds of Palestinian flags. Little by little, many more joined the march, which stopped outside the Port Authority headquarters to say, "Enough of complicity with Israel and enough arms trafficking in the ports!"
In Turin, more than 10,000 people marched through the streets, occupied the train tracks and burned a photo of Meloni and Netanyahu.
Monday's action, which includes workers and students blocking strategic sectors and in particular the ports from which they leave or where the weapons used by Israel in the genocide that it is carrying out, are of enormous importance.
On the one hand, its effect is much clearer and more direct than hundreds of statements and communiqués from the governments of the imperialist countries that while partially denouncing the policy of the Government of Israel continue to provide financial, military and political support. On the other hand, it is a radicalization of the partial actions that are being carried out in some ports such as in Italy, Greece or Morocco itself, extending the action to other sectors and becoming an example that can be replicated in other countries.
Israeli government ministers have already responded to statements by the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia on the recognition of a Palestinian state, clarifying that their response will be to further advance the total destruction of Gaza and the complete colonization of the West Bank, expelling the entire Palestinian population in what would be the "final stage" and "recharged" of the ethnic cleansing they have been carrying out for 70 years. This response from Israel shows the utopian of a two-state exit, something Israel itself is unwilling to accept.
There is no longer time to waste, all over the world it is necessary to redouble efforts and follow the example of Italy. Workers, young people and students, blocking everything, stopping everything, in solidarity with the Palestinian people and against the Israeli genocide.
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Reader Comments
I wonder where the bloody riots and civil war starts ...
Might be Italy - or France, or Britain, or Germany, or Belgium, or Holland, or Serbia ...