{"id":303697,"date":"2025-09-29T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=303697"},"modified":"2025-09-24T07:47:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:47:57","slug":"italian-workers-strike-in-solidarity-with-gaza-brings-disruptions-across-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/09\/italian-workers-strike-in-solidarity-with-gaza-brings-disruptions-across-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Workers\u2019 Strike in Solidarity with Gaza Brings Disruptions Across the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Protesters enter Central Station during clashes with police after the strike march in support of Palestine in Milano, Italy, 22 Sep 2025.\u00a0 | Photo Credit: AP<\/p><\/div>\n

Italy\u2019s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from school teachers to metal workers, called for a 24-hour general strike in both public and private sectors.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

22 Sep 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0Italy\u2019s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from school teachers to metal workers, called for a 24-hour general strike in both public and private sectors<\/p>\n

Thousands of protesters and strikers calling for solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza took to the streets in Italy on Monday (September 22, 2025), with some storming Milan\u2019s central train station.<\/p>\n

Italy\u2019s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from schoolteachers to metalworkers, called for a 24-hour general strike in both public and private sectors, including public transportation, trains, schools and ports.<\/p>\n

Read: Australia, Canada and U.K. formally recognise Palestinian statehood ahead of UNGA<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The strike caused disruptions across the country, with long delays for national trains and limited public transport in major cities, including Rome.<\/p>\n

In Milan, tension escalated when dozens of protesters dressed in black and armed with batons tried to smash the main entrance of the city\u2019s central train station, throwing smoke bombs, bottles and stones at police, who responded with pepper spray. In Bologna, police used water cannons to disperse a crowd of demonstrators who blocked a highway.<\/p>\n

The transit of goods was slowed or partially blocked by workers\u2019 sit-ins and rallies in Italy\u2019s main ports of Genoa and Livorno. More than 20,000 people gathered in front of Rome\u2019s central station to protest the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Unions and student organizations denounced \u201cthe inertia of the Italian and EU governments.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we don\u2019t block what Israel is doing, if we don\u2019t block trade, the distribution of weapons and everything else with Israel, we will not ever achieve anything,\u201d said Walter Montagnoli, national secretary of the CUB union, who joined a march in Milan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not through violence, by attacking security forces, blocking highways, stations and ports that we help the Palestinian civil population,\u201d Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani wrote on X<\/p>\n

The Italian government headed by conservative Premier Giorgia Meloni, a close Israeli ally in the EU, has more recently adopted a harsher tone on Israeli policies as domestic pressure mounted over the war. Italy, however, is not among the countries, including France, that will formally recognize a Palestinian state at this week\u2019s U.N. General Assembly.<\/p>\n

The creation of a Palestinian state in east Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza has long been seen internationally as the only way to resolve the conflict, which began more than a century before Hamas\u2019 October 7, 2023, attack that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza. In the attack, Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted 251. There are still 48 hostages remaining in Gaza, of whom Israel believes 20 are still alive.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s retaliatory offensive over the past 23 months has killed more than 65,100 people in Gaza, according to Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry, destroyed vast areas of the strip, displaced around 90% of the population and caused a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, with experts saying Gaza City is experiencing famine.<\/p>\n

The Ministry is under the Hamas-run government. U.N. agencies and many independent experts consider its figures to be the most reliable estimate of wartime casualties. It does not say how many of those killed were civilians or combatants.<\/p>\n

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Originally Published on <\/em>The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n

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