Content by or about The Committee Against Repression in Italy (CARII) a group set up in solidarity with the militants attacked by the Italian state in the late 1970s and early 1980s. CARI's activities included publishing a series of newsletters, raising money for refugees of the repression and orchestrating plans to discredit a key witness in Antonio Negri’s trial. The group was spearheaded by Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis.

The Italian Inquisition
In June 1982 the trial begins against the Italian workers' autonomy movement — a show-trial without precedent in post-War Europe. Here the…