Italy 60s-70s

Film theory on the spaghetti western films of the 1960s and 70s and how they were informed by the revolutionary conditions in the real world.

A text describing the relationship between the struggles and ideas of the workers…

This text was published by Italian chemical workers in the “Comitato operaio di Porto Marghera”, in…

Libcom.org's reading guide on the Italian social movements of the 1960s-70s, which saw massive strikes, protests, occupations, directly…

Documentary about the life and ideas of Italian Marxist Antonio Negri. With interesting footage and information from Italy in the 1960s-70s it…

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…

For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of Italy’s cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant…

A text translated by Evan Calder Williams from Rosso, an Italian communist journal, from 1974. It’s written by the rather formally named “Study…

An obitatury for Italian Marxist, Romano Alquati, who passed away in April of 2010 at the age of 75.

An 1973 interview with a member of Lotta Continua, an Italian anticapitalist organization linked to the operaismo and autonomia movements.

A primer on the where the Italian movement of 1973 came out of and a description of some of the…

Issue of Radical America journal from March-April 1973 focusing on the mass struggles going on at…