Posted on 09/22/2025 6:34:09 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Thousands of protesters and strikers calling for solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza took to the streets in Italy on Monday, with some storming Milan’s central train station and clashing violently with police.
Italy’s 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.
The strike caused disruptions across the country, with long delays for national trains and limited public transport in major cities, including Rome.
In Milan, tensions escalated when dozens of protesters dressed in black and armed with batons tried to smash the main entrance of the city’s 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.
The transit of goods was slowed or partially blocked by workers’ sit-ins and rallies in Italy’s main ports of Genoa and Livorno. More than 20,000 people gathered in front of Rome’s central station to protest the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Unions and student organizations denounced “the inertia of the Italian and EU governments.”
“If we don’t block what Israel is doing, if we don’t block trade, the distribution of weapons and everything else with Israel, we will not ever achieve anything,” said Walter Montagnoli, national secretary of the CUB union, who joined a march in Milan.
Premier Giorgia Meloni condemned violent clashes sparked by some protesters as “shameful.”
“Violence and destruction have nothing to do with solidarity and won’t change a thing in the lives of people in Gaza,” she wrote on X.
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WUTTT THE ACTUAL HELL? Mama mia! Loco! Is Meloni PO’d?
It’s all about sticking up for your socialist comrades, never mind that Muslims aren’t Catholic-friendly.
Let’s just be honest, the Italians need very little of an excuse to spend a day being lazy....
So if Europe caves and supports statehood for Palestine, does that mean they can deport their Palestinian immigrants back to their homeland? 🤣
Infamnia
Fire them
maybe we need a rescue mission to pull all the great art works out of Italy for safe-keeping, before these commie union thugs start wrecking things like the Taliban did...
maybe we need a rescue mission to pull all the great art works out of Italy for safe-keeping, before these commie union thugs start wrecking things like the Taliban did...
Are they offering the “palestinians” land in Italy? Maybe the Italian Riviera?
If not then STFU and get back to work, paisan!
We are going to go on strike because of something that our employers have nothing to do with, our country has no power over and the results will be diddly and squat.
Because we are so dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb oh Mr Sandman bring us some brains....
[[storming Milan’s central train station and clashing violently with police]]
Wow, they sur are emulating their comrades in armz the palistinians. Now that’s a spicy-a meatball-e
Pssst italians, muslims hate you and dont give a rip about,your ignorant protrsts in their honor!
Good question.
Pronto!
Italy has workers?
Who knew?
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,,, in August 2019 I took a late morning Vueling flight from Orly to Malpensa. I waited for an hour and ten minutes for my luggage to appear on the carousel. I’ve never had to wait that long and there wasn’t a lot of flights coming and going at the time. Attitude says everything. It must have been pasta time.
Working class Europeans do not care when Muslims kill other Muslims.
resident pali’s riot and rage because Meloni’s Italy refuses to kowtow and join the UK and France in acknowledging a pali state, and the media hides the reality behind a story of a ‘worker’s strike’.
Having been to Italy a few times, I can vouch for the fact that most Italians are crazy.
In London, I had the pleasure of working with a couple of non-crazy Italians who thought the same and said that’s the reason they left Italy and moved to Britain.
Officially, "pasta time" is between 1:30pm and 4:30PM. That's when everything shuts down for a lunch that's more of a dinner.
Italians are naturally brilliant, creative people with big hearts. But they are generally lazy as hell when it comes to work. Unlike in America, Italians don't live to work, they work to live and do just barely what is necessary to collect a check.
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