Joe Toscano Interview II

We talk to Dr. Joe Toscano about the upcoming event we have organised and the WW2 history that surrounds it. This period saw many thousands of civilian and Prisoner of War internments. Francesco Fantin, an Italian antifascist and anarchist migrant worker represents a kind of migration that goes often unsung and unremembered. Talking about this period is not just rehashing history its uncovering a radical subjectivity for which migrants can live on this land through.

The event is on Saturday the 31st October:
 

Join us 2pm at Democritus House, 583 High Street, Northcote with Dr. Joe Toscano, to learn about an important and often forgotten chapter in radical Australian migrant history.

This event is a lead up to the memorial at the Italian Ossario at Murchinson, Victoria that will happen on the Sunday 8th November, where the collected remains of Italian internees are located.

Join us to learn more about all this and more on the Saturday 31st October and the Sunday 8th November.

You can find more details on our instagram here. 
 

Sonia Di Iorio Interview II

Friend of the show and Italo-Australian comedian Sonia Di Iorio who comes in to talk to us about her shows during the Melbourne International Comedy Fest and to promote her upcoming show on November 7 at the Williamstown Italian Social Club. She’s put together a show with a whole bunch of other hyphenated Australians to shake the foundations of boring ethnic comedy!

You can find tickets here.


Student and Workers Protests in Italy II

The continuing wave of protests in Italy is increasing and building broader solidarities, we hear from the voices of various students in the streets and student organizers about the problems they face, with roofs falling on their heads and not enough resources and the solutions in the building of a better world that they want to contribute to.

We begin this section by contextualizing it with a OSA’s (Alternative Student Opposition, a radical student movement) Statement from the 2nd September 2026, you can find the original here.

We then hear a collection of voices from the streets and in interviews with Radio Onda D’Urto, you can find more here.


30th Oct General Strike in Italy II

The call for mobilization on the 30th of October for has already been a historic moment in Italian history which has just this week seeing the confluence of the student movements protest join up with agricultural and transport workers movement. To highlight the various perspectives and realities that are adhering to this historic date and building on the solidarity that was generated last year in the historic Blocchiamo Tutto (Block Everything) protests after Israel has attacked in international waters hundreds of vessels that were involved in the Global Sumud Flotilla. Courtesy of the always incredible Radio Onda D’Urto we hear from the legendary USB (Unione Sindacale di Base) first before closing out the the section hearing from Samed from Giovani Palestinesi Italiani (Young Palestinian Italians).

You can listen to more here.

The period of history we are living through is dramatic, with seismic shifts happening all around us, we need now more than ever to build a real grass roots social and cultural movement and in order to do this we have talk to each and encourage debate and participate in political movements and unions and where there are none create new realities, let’s pull up our collective sleeves and get to work!

Songs on today's episode:

BaLotta Continua - La Violenza (La Caccia Alle Streghe)
Errico Canta Male - Blocchiamo Tutto