After the attack on the trade union in Rome: tens of thousands demonstrate against fascism

A week ago right-wing extremists attacked the headquarters of the CGIL union during a demonstration in Rome. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets today to demonstrate against fascism.

A week after the attack on the headquarters of the CGIL trade union in Rome, tens of thousands of people demonstrated against fascism in the Italian capital. “No more fascism: for work, participation and democracy” was the motto of the event organized by the trade union confederations CGIL, CISL and UIL. According to media reports, more than 50,000 people came to the rally.

According to the trade unions, around 800 buses and ten special trains were ready across Italy to take people to the capital. With flags and banners, thousands of union supporters and various left-wing groups marched through the streets around the venue in Piazza di San Giovanni in Laterano, not far from the Colosseum.

Italy commemorates Nazi raid

After the riots a week earlier during the demonstration against the expanded corona rules in Italy, numerous police units and helicopters were in action. On the fringes, members of the right-wing radical Forza Nuova party, among others, attacked the CGIL headquarters. Several people were injured during the protests. Italian politics is currently discussing the dissolution of the party.

At the rally, CISL General Secretary Luigi Sbarra called for rapid progress in dismantling neo-fascist and neo-Nazi organizations. Italy also commemorated a raid by the Nazis 78 years ago in Rome, as a result of which more than 1,000 Jews were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp.