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.

Police advance to occupy Bologna University

There's no way to delay that trouble coming every day: Italy '77

A report on youth revolts in Italy in 1977, from London-based anarchist-feminist magazine Zero.

Industrial Worker (January 1970)

Industrial Worker (January 1970)

The January 1970 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

Industrial Worker (February 1970)

Industrial Worker (February 1970)

The February 1970 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

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

A collection of articles about the class struggle in Italy in the mid 1970s. Published in London in…

Radio Alice flyer/poster

Italy in the late 1970s: Mass party Leninism, Radio Alice and Mao Dada

On Western Maoism, Autonomia, culture, Umberto Eco etc.

Part 2 Situ Reorientation debate: The Red Brigades in Italy

Part 2: On the 1970 Situationist Reorientation Debate, the Never Work(ing) worker. Mayakovsky /…

Critique of Italy '77: Eulogising madness

"Certain publications of the so-called movement are staging a sinister leftist farce of madness which has nothing to do with real madness". An…

Metropolitan Indians

Italy in 1977 - David Wise

A personal memory... .and the link between intensifying cultural commodification, increasing state repression and the spectre of terrorism…

Pinelli Assassinato - EACS (1972)

A English-language pamphlet on the assassination of anarchist railway worker Giuseppe Pinelli in 1969 by Milan police - and related context on…

The Workers' Party of Mirafiori - Toni Negri (1973)

This article takes as its starting point the heady days of March 1973, when the FIAT workers of Mirafiori, Turin, once again played out their vanguard role in an uncompromising mass occupation of the factory, which was then taken up as a tactic by dozens of other engineering firms in the city and suburbs of Turin.

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back... Toni Negri (1973)

This article is Negri's account of the broad development of the organisation of the revolutionary Left in Italy, from 1968 to 1973, and their crisis in the latter period. The article carries Negri's rejection of the line of terrorism and the line of institutional (e.g. electoral) politics. It also touches on one of the themes of the Autonomy area in 1973 - the organisation of insurrection. He also explores the…

Italy 1973 - Potere Operaio

This article is taken from the newspaper Potere Operaio, in 1973 (before that organisation's self-dissolution). It looks at some of the facts and figures of the crisis of Italian capitalism in the wake of the workers' struggles of 1969-70. The broad lines of the employers' strategy are dealt with, together with the changing form of the State: ("It was the role of the State as a general economic planner that had to…