Italy 60s-70s

Content about the mass struggles in Italy in the 1960s and 70s, known as the Creeping May, and the associated Years of Lead.

Puzz comic cover

Puzz comic in mid-1970s Italy

Two short articles from the Revolt Against Plenty site on the radical magazine Puzz, followed by artwork and translations.

a text heavy leaflet

Class Struggle in Italy, 1977 - Isaac Cronin

A short situationist text published in San Francisco.

Capitalism also depends on domestic labour graphic

A General Strike - Mariarosa Dalla Costa

A speech arguing for the concept of the general strike to be broadened to include housework, given at a 1974 celebration of International Women’s…

Italy: The struggles at Fiat '69 - Vittorio Rieser

Interview on the class struggle in Fiat plants translated into English for Issue #2 of Root & Branch, a 1970s libertarian socialist publication…

The Renaissance of Operaismo – Wildcat

Gatto Selvaggio - Giornale di lotta degli operai della Fiat e della Lancia (1963)

1963 Italian paper distributed to factory workers with a rough English translation of "Wild Cat:…

Summary and thoughts: The Magneti Marelli Workers Committee – The ‘Red Guard’ tells its story

Graphic from the cover of I Volsci issue 4 May/June 1978

Violence of the State - I Volsci

I Volsci (The Volscians) are a group of Autonomists well rooted in the proletarian quarters of Rome. They are considered the “hard" fraction of…

Memorial from Prison

This document was written on May 24, 1979 from the "Special Wing — G 8” of the Rebibbia jail in Rome by Mario Dalmaviva, Luciano Ferrari Bravo, Toni Negri, Oreste Scalzone, Emilio Vesce and Lauso Zagato. Footnotes were added by the Editors.

On Nanni Balestrini, the Most Radically Formalist Poet of the Italian Scene

Franco 'Bifo' Berardi on the poetry of Nanni Balestrini

Extracts from Blackout - with full text PDF

Selections from Blackout, Balestrini's epic poem covering the movements of 1970s Italy.

Nanni Balestrini and the Poetry of the Italian Autonomia

Jamie MacKay considers Balestrini's autonomist poetry.