Social Centres And Struggle For Housing: Organizing With Immigrants In Italy
A short article from London Notes #1 1992
House arrests lifted
Submitted by Johanna Schellhagen on Apr 1 2021 07:22
On March 26, the two SI Cobas coordinators for Piacenza, Carlo and Arafat, were released from their 14 days long house arrest.
Video, 13min italian with engl subs. https://en.labournet.tv/house-arrests-lifted
Migratory Flows: The Mass Worker And The Socialized Worker - Comitato Senza Frontiere
An autonomist analysis of immigration in and around Italy in from 1950s-1990s.
Article from London Notes #1 1992, translated from an article by Comitato Senza Frontiere (Without Frontiers Committee), Via Avesella 5b, Bologna, Italy, dated 28 May 1991 and published in Incompatibili (the magazine of the self-organized workers of Rome), #6 Summer 1991.
"We're not criminals"
Submitted by Johanna Schellhagen on Mar 26 2021 15:42
SI Cobas base union activist Ruben talks about repression against workers and union officials in Piacenza in March 2021.
Video, 7min, italian with engl. subs: https://en.labournet.tv/were-not-criminals
9 months prison sentence for SI Cobas unionist
Submitted by Johanna Schellhagen on Mar 24 2021 13:46
BREAKING - 9 months prison sentence against union coordinator for Bologna Simone Carpeggiani.
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.
Italy: The Capitalist Attacks Are Already Beginning
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 16 2021 18:56
The following articles are translations of a statement and a leaflet issued by our sister organisation in Italy, Battaglia Comunista (Internationalist Communist Party).
Repression against striking workers in Italy
Submitted by Johanna Schellhagen on Mar 15 2021 14:11
After blockades and a succesful strike at TNT-Fedex in Piacenza massive police operations and violence against workers and unionists:
https://en.labournet.tv/repression-against-striking-workers-italy
Anarchists in a Workers Uprising: Italys Biennio Rosso
An article tracing the development of the Italian Biennio Rosso and the anarchist movements role. Largely focusing on the Italian Anarchist Union (UAI) and Italian Syndicalist Union (USI)
Arditi del Popolo - The First Anti-Fascists
The rise to power of Mussolini and the Fascists in Italy, from 1919 to 1922, provides us with important lessons, not just about Fascism but also about the tactics & organisation necessary to fight it. Equally the critical role of the wider working class struggle is thrown into sharp focus. We believe the lessons are clear enough that they emerge simply from relating the story...
Article from Fighting Talk #14 (1996).
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