Italy 60s-70s

A short biography of the libertarian communist Maurizio Montecchi, active in Reggio Emilia.

From Insurgent Notes #17, May 2018.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.