Italy
Autoreduction movements in Turin, 1974
Eddy Cherki and Michel Wieviorka's account of the workers' self-reduction of prices movement in the Italian city of Turin in the 1970s.
To consider the new developments in social struggle within Western Europe since 1968, one must turn to Italy. The organization of the worker's movement, often on a mass scale, has assumed original forms. Urban struggles have led to organized union and political neighborhood actions with stakes tied to consumption.
Resolution of the conference of the Abstentionist Communist Fraction of the Italian Socialist Party
1920 text showing how the left wing of the Italian Socialist Party initially held anti-parliamentarist positions, prior to the Second Congress of the Communist International.
The National Conference of the abstentionist communist fraction of the Socialist Party of Italy was held in Florence on May 8 and 9, 1920.1
- 1. We include this short text of the Italian Left (extracted from Il Soviet and published by Kommunismus) in this collection because it shows, in opposition to the legend maintained by Bordiga and the Bordigists, that the entire Italian Left was actually more
Lessons from defeat: Antonio Negri, autonomist Marxism and anarcho-syndicalism from seventies Italy to today
A discussion of the history and theory of Italian operaismo, its strengths, weaknesses and legacy. The second part of the essay examines the convergence and divergence of autonomist Marxist thought and anarcho-syndicalist thought.
“...analysis becomes complete only through participation in struggles...”
(Panzieri, La crisi del movimento operaio,1973)
1.0 Into the laboratory
Italy implements draconian migration laws
Yesterday the Italian Parliament finally approved the new laws on security, introducing explicitly racist rules.
From now on a migrant who marries an Italian can get Italian citizenship only if she/he has been living in the country for two years (three years if the partner is abroad). Previous laws set a period of six months. Under the new law, in order to get married, a migrant will have to show the residence permit. Weddings with “illegal” migrants are not allowed.
Roda, Maria 1877-19???
A short biography of Maria Roda, a fierce champion of women's liberation and anarchism, active in Italy, France and the United States.
“Who knows poverty more than woman?” Maria Roda
The truth about the Fascisti - Sylvia Pankhurst
Pankhurst examines the rise of Italian fascism from foundations laid by social democracy.
The Daily Herald, the Labour Party organ with unexampled treachery to the cause of the workers, and to all that makes for progress, has attempted to whitewash the White Terror of the Fascisti, which holds Italy in its grip today.
Pisa: go-ahead for deportations in the Italian city
The mayor of Pisa proposes a programme of repatriation for Romanian immigrants. Within this programme the immigrants are expected to sign a contract stating that they will not come back to Pisa for the next 12 months.
The council would pay a bus to take all these immigrants to the same city in Romania and there they will receive a bonus that amounts to hundreds of Euros to live on when they arrive. In the meantime the "huts" where they used to live in Pisa will be destroyed.
Sicilian bin workers on strike, Palermo drowned in rubbish
Fifty piles of rubbish were set on fire last night in Palermo and rubbish seem to drown the whole city. The city bin workers refuse to do extra hours work because they do not want to get on vehicles that do not abide by the security standards.
Ten days ago the refuse workers of Palermo decided to stop working extra hours because most of the vehicles used for rubbish collection do not abide by compulsory security standards. June wages are at risk but unions decided to keep on with the protest and be on "white strike" which means the strict respect of the security procedures.
Illegal deportation of Libyan immigrants from Italy
Roberto Maroni, home secretary of the Italian Government, exulted for the illegal repatriation of 227 immigrants who, travelling on three shabby boats, were trying to reach the Italian bank through the Canal of Sicily.
The immigrants, promptly stopped by Italian authorities, were sent back immediately to Libya without being able even to stay in the immigration centre of Lampedusa.
Meschi, Alberto 1879-1958
A short biography of Alberto Meschi, great figure of Italian anarchism and still remembered fondly in Carrara.
Alberto Meschi was born at Borgo San Donnino (Parma) on 27 May 1879. An autodidact, as a boy he rallied to the workers movement in La Spezia. He worked as a bricklayer. From 1899 he wrote political articles in the paper Pro Coatti, the union magazine L'Edilizia and the antimilitarist La Pace.
