The Magneti Marelli Workers Committee - the "Red Guard" tells its story (Milan, 1975-78) - Emilio Mentasti
This remarkable book about one of the high points of workers' struggles in Italy (and the world) in the 1960s and '70s is now available in English.
I'm making it available here in mobi and epub formats, so you should be able to read it on most electronic devices.
A paper copy of this book can be obtained from the publisher, Autonomedia/Minor Compositions:
https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1002
And a fine paper copy it is! Nicely layed out and on good quality paper... And there's a free PDF for you to download too.
The Introduction to the English Edition is below.
Class Struggle in the Time of Coronavirus: An Incomplete Chronicle of Events (16-21 March)
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 23 2020 19:37
The following review is a small depiction of what’s happening in the world, outside Italy (for the situation in Italy, see: leftcom.org).
We Want Everything: A Novel - Nanni Balestrini
Nanni Balestrini’s fictionalized account of the Hot Autumn, in which a young worker from Italy’s impoverished south arrives at Fiat’s Mirafiori factory in Turin, where he finds himself in conflict with the bosses and the entire capitalist system.
Solidarity motor bulletin #05: Spain: struggle at SEAT Barcelona
Excellent bulletin about workers' struggles at car manufacturer Seat in Barcelona October 1974-January 1975, looking at the history of the industry and class struggle in Franco's Spain in the preceding years.
Two short stories - Nanni Balestrini
Nanni Balestrini was born in Milan in 1935. Known both as an experimental writer of prose and verse and as a cultural and political activist, he played a leading role in avant-garde writing and publishing in the sixties. His involvement with the extra-parliamentary left in the seventies resulted in terrorism charges (of which he was subsequently acquitted) and a long period of self-imposed exile from Italy.
Shock economy in post-earthquake Emilia
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Jun 10 2012 20:03
After the two big earthquakes that have hit Emilia over the past two weeks, local businesses have already begun to put the shock economy system in to practice.
5400 workers on redundancy payment at FIAT plant in Mirafiori, Turin
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on May 21 2012 15:09
Sergio Marchionne has managed to set a new record in his activity as the CEO of FIAT: that is, to layoff the whole workforce of the Mirafiori plant in Turin.
Separate agreement leads to expulsion of FIOM from Fiat Italian factories
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Jan 22 2012 20:09
Thousands of FIAT workers will no longer be represented by FIOM, the main Italian union of mechanical industrial workers.
Sabotage in Fiat Tychy
Submitted by akai on Feb 11 2011 19:24
300 cars were damaged last night by ticked off workers in Poland's Fiat plant.
The tragedy of Fiat: new contract, longer hours, shorter breaks
Submitted by Ed on Jan 13 2011 17:47
On January 13th and 14th, over 5,000 Fiat workers at Turin's main factory vote on a new contract which drastically increases hours, reduces breaks and restricts industrial action.
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