Cinema Sunday – Adelaide 5 July 3pm

Domenica 5 luglio alle 15 Sunday 5th July 3pm 15 lowe st, Adelaide 1970s classic (with English subtitles) directed byFranco Brusati and featured Nino Manfredi as Nino This award-winning comedy is centred on the hapless Nino who is an illegal Italian immigrant working in a Swiss hotel waiting on the wealthy. When he loses his job after being arrested for urinating in public, he goes … Continue reading Cinema Sunday – Adelaide 5 July 3pm

FILEF SUBMISSION TO NSW LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY LAW AND SAFETY COMMITTEE

– INQUIRY INTO MEASURES TO PROHIBIT SLOGANS THAT INCITE HATRED Preamble FILEF NSW (Federation of Italian Migrants and their Families) has been active for over 50 years. The value that has consistently driven us is that every person residing in Australia should have equal opportunities and outcomes in all aspect of society across social, civic, cultural and economic spheres. In our view achieving these outcomes … Continue reading FILEF SUBMISSION TO NSW LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY LAW AND SAFETY COMMITTEE

Gaetano Greco

Intervista di Gaetano Greco per Nuovo Paese – prima puntata

Condividiamo questa intervista per onorare la vita di Gaetano, il suo instancabile impegno politico e il profondo impatto che ha avuto su chi lo ha conosciuto. La sua voce, tenace e generosa, resta una presenza viva e significativa. Un invito a ricordare, a riflettere e, soprattutto, a continuare a lottare.
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Pasta Antifascist 25th July 2025, 6PM

Gumbramorra Hall, Addison Road Community Centre, Marrickville. FREE EVENT. Celebrating the end of the fascist regime & the victory of the Resistance. Pasta, music and song with songstress Sonia Zardo. “Pasta antifascista” (or pastasciutta antifascista) is a tradition stemming from an act of resistance against fascism in Italy, specifically the Cervi family’s celebration on July 25 1943, following the downfall of Benito Mussolini…The Cervi family, … Continue reading Pasta Antifascist 25th July 2025, 6PM

Gaetano Greco

Vale Gaetano Greco

26 April, 2025 It is with great sadness that we have received the news that comrade Gaetano Greco died on April 26 in Melbourne. He was an historical activist of FILEF (Italian Federation of Migrant Workers & Families) in Melbourne, nationally as well as internationally. Gaetano’s parents migrated from Floridia in Sicily, and he was born 65 years ago and then raised in the north … Continue reading Vale Gaetano Greco

Italian Liberation Day 1945-2024

24th April, 6pm Addison Rd Community Centre Gumbramorra Hall, 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville 25th April every year marks Italy’s liberation from Nazi-facism. On this 79th commemoration of Italian Liberation Day, we wish to support the resistance of the Palestinian People against the Israeli aggression and over 70 years of illegal occupation of their lands. We also acknowledge the ongoing resistance to colonisation by the First … Continue reading Italian Liberation Day 1945-2024

KEY MOMENTS IN AUSTRALIA’S UNION HISTORY BY FRONTYARD FILMS

Frontyard Films and FILEF invite you to a special screening of short documentaries about some of the union movement’s pivotal historical moments: the 1917 Great Strike – the largest industrial action in Australian history – the unionisation of Aboriginal workers – and the infamous Patrick dispute on Sydney wharves in 1998. Continue reading KEY MOMENTS IN AUSTRALIA’S UNION HISTORY BY FRONTYARD FILMS

2018 | Four decades of political film making

Spontaneous Productions and FILEF invite you to a special screening of short films on political activism in Sydney by senior filmmaker Russ Hermann. Over the years Spontaneous Productions has been covering most of the major struggles and campaigns in Sydney, going from workers’ and Indigenous rights to the defence of the environment and to tenants’ rights, as well as promoting and documenting community arts.The latest production is Road to Nowhere, a look … Continue reading 2018 | Four decades of political film making