lotta continua

We actually used to carry this as a pmphlet and some other stuff. Never really sold. Funnhy how some of this retro stuff is being given a "second look".

Good to see in a way. I know that May 68, the Pargue Spring, Italy's Hot Autum and the wildcat movements of the day all helped to shaped by political views. Not necc. the ideologies (or lack therepof), but the liebrtarian spirit and organizational forms of the struggles. Clearly these events helped me to crystalize my thinking along anarcho-syndicalist lines---pro-class struggle, pro-organization.

States of Emergency is really excellent. There's fictionalized accounts of some of this stuff in The Unseen by Nanni Balestrini and the play We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! by Dario Fo. There's also a big old Red Notes pamphlet called Italy: Living In An Earthquake that's pretty good if you can find it. I know someone has an e-copy cuz that's how I got it, but I've since lost the file and lost touch with the comrade who sent it to me. There's also been some new work in Italian on LC and that era, it's a shame none of it's been translated.

John, I was thinking of a book. My Italian's pretty mediocre so I only find stuff if I stumble across it randomly. I'll ask around, though. A friend of mine's trying to get more stuff from Collegamenti Wobbly translated to english, that would be very cool. If you're interested in that pm me and I'll put you in touch with him.

On a somewhat related note, I can't remember if I already posted this or not, if so I apologize. The old Semiotext issue about the Italian movements is online here:

http://generation-online.org/t/ppp.htm

It was out of print and hard to find for a really long time. Some of it will already be in the Libcom library, but I'm not sure if all of it is.

Also - http://www.sojournertruth.net/utissue10.html - that link is stuff from an issue of Sojourner Truth Organization's journal Urgent Tasks, in that issue they talk about events in Italy at the time, mostly focused on armed struggle. It talks about what some Irish group (I think the people who put out a journal called Ripening of TIme, I have the issue they talk about in this issue of Urgent Tasks) said about the Italian situation. It also talks critically about the "guaranteed wage" demand, which was being made at the time and is still being made by folk like Negri and some parts of the Italian left today.

"rich, modern"?

eta: There's a reason the word "eviction" appears 17 times in that article. These people weren't just truly subversively revolting against alienation or whatever.

A few of them also got out of prison recently.

I forgot about the book 'The Judge and the Historian' which is a decent history of the case of the murdered pig after an anarchist "fell out of a window" during interrogation. When I got the book I thought it was a novel from reading the back...