Italy: New tactics and organization
"Italy: New Tactics and Organization", Radical America, Vol. V, No. 5, September-October 1971.
Interview with Guido Viale
An 1973 interview with a member of Lotta Continua, an Italian anticapitalist organization linked to the operaismo and autonomia movements.
Guido Viale, one of the founders and a national leader of Lotta Continua, was arrested on January 28, 1973 with nine other comrades and charged with attempted murder in connection with clashes the night before in the streets of Turin between revolutionaries and neo-fascists. The police fired at the militants, seriously wounding five, and arrested many others.
Take over the city - community struggles in Italy - Rising Free (1974)
This pamphlet was produced by some people around the Rising Free bookshop in north London in 1974(?), and is concerned with community-based class struggle in Italy in 1969-73. It is largely a reprint of the article of the same name produced by Lotta Continua (also available on libcom). However, it also contains information about Italian immigrants in Germany in the early '70s, and lots of nice photos and cartoons from the same period.
Fighting For Feminism: The Womens Question in an Italian Revolutionary Group
A set of letters from the Lotta Continua newspaper discussing the relationship between feminism, Marxism, the women's movement, and Lotta Continua. Translated and introduced by the Big Flame group. (PDF format)
Italy: women in the Fiat factory
The following article was written by a Turin collective working on the problems of women employed by Fiat. It was published in Lotta Continua, February 1970.
Underlying this article is the idea that the significance of a fight in one department within a factory, for instance, or strata within the working class, in this case women, can only be understood in terms of the relationship between this particular point of struggle and others.
Cultural revolution - Lotta Continua
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 24 2009 23:02
This article gives a brief overview of some of the social changes that took place in the mass struggles in the late 60’s.
From Lotta Continua #18, November 1970.
An interview with workers at Fiat, 1970
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 15 2009 18:23
Three workers from FIAT Mirafiori in Italy describe the experiences of the Southern immigrant coming to work in the industrial cities of the North. The conversation was recorded in Turin during December 1970.
It was only after the summer of 1969 that people in Britain began to hear of the struggles at FIAT. Was there a tradition of struggle before the middle of 1969, or were these clashes the beginning of the revolutionary movement of FIAT?
Italy 1977-8: Living with an earthquake - Red Notes
A superb pamphlet from a time when a very high level of class struggle dominated Italian society. Despite their differences - the state, church, fascists, Communist Party and unions were all united in opposition to the the radical social movement. In text and PDF format.
Link to PDF of pamphlet.
Published by Red Notes, London, UK, late 1970s
Text version from www.classagainstclass.com, lightly edited by libcom.org
1971: Via Tibaldi occupation
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 10 2006 22:27
A short history of an occupation of empty housing in Italy by workers who had inadequate accomodation. Their direct action and solidarity forced the council to house hundreds of people.
The occupation at Via Tibaldi was a great step forward for the tenants’ and homeless movement in Italy. A whole neighbourhood was involved in it : factories, schools, housing projects took part in the organising of the struggle. There was a victory at Via Tibaldi because everyone there was fully aware
Take over the city: community struggle in Italy - Lotta Continua
Submitted by libcom on Jan 12 2006 15:08
Excellent article from Lotta Continua about different struggles of workers in their local areas in 1973. It covers self-reduction of prices, squatting and more.
Translated and edited by Ernest Dowson
Radical America, Vol.7 no.2, March-April 1973
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