Politics in the First Person - Rising Free reprint series 2 issue 2

Yeah same person. This is him.

Albertani was active in anarchist currents in Milan in the 1970s. He is listed as a contact on the 1972 Comontismo pamphlet 'Contratti o Sabotaggio?'

There's a collection of Comontismo texts online here and the current is referred to in Francesco Santini's 'Apocalypse and Survival'

In the late '70s he was involved with the Milanese group which produced the journal Insurrezione. Steve Wright mentions their pamphlet 'Proletari, Se Voi Sapeste' in this article. The pamphlet itself is online here.

In 1980 Albertani moved to Mexico as did his comrade Tito Pulsinelli
(Umanita Nova obituary here). (English translation)

Over the years since Albertani has written a lot of texts especially about Mexico. They include this co-authored one reprinted in Collegamenti - In Che Momento Si È Fottuto Il Messico?

A couple of articles by him in English:

'Paint It Black: Black Blocs Tute Bianche and Zapatistas in the Anti-globalization Movement'

'Education as a Battlefield: The Autonomous University of Mexico City in the National and International Contexts'

Another translated text here: 'Empire and its pitfalls: Toni Negri and the disconcerting trajectory of Italian workerism' (temporary link - scroll down)

Insurrezione had written extensively about the 'Movement of 77', among many other things strongly criticising the actions of the 'armed parties', including the anarchist Azione Rivoluzionaria. These particular texts have been reprinted several times.

'Il laboratorio della controrivoluzione. Italia 1979-80' is online here.

Anarchismo reprinted a number of texts by Insurrezione including 'Parafulmini e Controfigure' and 'L. A. x C.= NIHIL' in a pamphlet which is online here.

(There is a very poor 'draft' translation of bits of the pamphlet online here)

In 1999 Albertani wrote a brief introduction to 'Parafulmini e Controfigure' (archived here).

In 2021 he and Pulsinelli wrote an introduction to a Chilean reprint of 'Parafulmini e Controfigure' and 'L. A. x C.= NIHIL' (reprinted online here on facebook).

A rough translation of the opening:

The documents we present here were controversial in their time, and we are sure that they will still be today, since they concern a complex issue of which is seldom considered "strategically", and about which there is a powerful mystification in revolutionary milieus: armed violence.

There is no doubt that capital and the world it reproduces is based on structural violence, which, to the extent that the crisis deepens, becomes less and less "symbolic" and more obvious in the eyes of all: we experience it every day in our work, means of transport, schools and universities, neighborhoods, homes and in every sphere of daily life subsumed to this irrational logic. However, we cannot succumb to the temptation to simplify antagonism and social subversion into a simple violent confrontation between two sides, in which, inevitably, we will be defeated by the strongest apparatus, with greater resources, and logistical and personal means: the State. The specialization and autonomy of a voluntarist minority in the "exercise of violence" - however enthusiastic they are - cannot by themselves accelerate matters or make rapid progress, nor can they assist the real movement fighting for the suppression of the conditions of our existence to substantially advance, indeed often they push it completely into the abyss. The texts by "Insurrezione" presented in this booklet analysed and took stock of this "problem" which had catastrophic consequences for the powerful proletarian movement that had emerged explosively in Italy in the late 1960s and which definitively ended its cycle in a spiral of repression and blind violence in the early 1980s.

However, these introductory remarks are in no way aimed at calling for social peace or for a clearly suicidal and reactionary immobility: revolutionary violence is necessary at all times, but the central and important things are its social content and its link to the antagonistic movement, the only guarantees to properly calibrate this activity, avoiding both its co-option by the enemy, and the "substitutionism" of an elitist vanguard acting in the name of the exploited: in that way, at best, the proletariat is merely a passive spectator who feels an abstract sympathy for actions of a spectacular nature carried out by guerrillas.