Italy 60s-70s

Articles about the mass social upheaval and class struggle in Italy in the 1960s and 70s, sometimes referred to as the "creeping May ".

A Party of Autonomy? - Steve Wright

Steve Wright's analysis of the Leninist tendencies remaining in Italian Operaismo and "explore, in a critical manner, the debate over the party-form played out within and around the groups of Autonomia Operaia during the late seventies".

In loving memory of Ivan Conabere-'Uno di noi'

Autonomia operaia is a party, from the phenomenal, organisational and structural point of view-Judge Pietro Calogero (La Repubblica 1979: 120).

If only!-Mario Dalmaviva, Luciano Ferrari Bravo, Toni Negri, Oreste Scalzone, Emilio Vesce, Lauso Zagato (1979: 23).

The Tribe of Moles - Sergio Bologna

Sergio Bologna's work on class composition through the unrest in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s.

The Tribe of Moles

by Sergio Bologna

translated by Ed Emery

For an Analysis of Autonomia - An Interview with Sergio Bologna

Movimento is delighted to offer, as part of our "Storie d'Italia '68-'77" series, an interview by Patrick Cuninghame with Sergio Bologna in which they discuss the political and cultural implications of the various social movements that sprang up in Italy in the 1970's and in particular Autonomia. The interview was conducted in June 1995 in Mexico City.

Marini, Giovanni, 1942-2001

Giovanni Marini

A biography of Italian working class poet, writer and anarchist Giovanni Marini, caught up in Italy's Strategy of Tension and unjustly convicted of the murder of a fascist.

The late 1960s and the 1970s were strange and violent years in Italy.

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