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.

History of ten years - Encyclopedie des Nuisances

Analysis of the outbreaks of class struggle in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Poland that took place between 1974 and 1984, published by the…

Fossa dei Leoni, AC Milan ultras.

The Ultra movement and the political influences

Article about how Italian politics, of both left and right, came to influence 'ultras' groups in football teams across the country and how it…

Hot Autumn photo gallery, Italy 1969

Photos of strikes, demonstrations, occupations and mass assemblies of workers and students from Italy's 'Hot Autumn' of 1969. Also includes…

Piazza Statuto riot

Organized spontaniety: class struggle, workers autonomy and soviets in Italy - Gigi Roggero

Gigi Roggero on the Italian operaismo and the movements of the 60s and 70s.

Cover of the original edition of Storming Heaven by Steve Wright which includes a map of Italy with a clenched fist coming out of the top of it.

Storming heaven: class composition and struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism - Steve Wright

Book documenting the historical context of the Italian operaista tradition, and the…

Giuseppe Pinelli

Giuseppe 'Pino' Pinelli (1928-1969): the 17th victim of the Piazza Fontana bombing

Short biography of Italian anarchist framed by the state and killed while in its custody.

Fighting For Feminism: The Womens Question in an Italian Revolutionary Group

A set of letters from the Lotta Continua newspaper discussing the relationship between feminism,…

Italian feminism, workerism and autonomy in the 1970s: The struggle against unpaid reproductive labour and violence - Patrick Cuninghame

Article about the autonomous women's movement in Italy in the 1970s, with…

Politics in the First Person: the autonomous workers movement in Italy - Wicked Messengers

Article about Autonomia Operaia and the radical workers' movement in Italy in the 1960s and 70s.

Aldo Moro's body, left by the Red Brigades in the back of a car in Rome.

Armed struggle in Italy, 1976-1978

Full text of a booklet containing a chronology of and documents on the armed struggle during the decline of the mass social movements in Italy in…

Italy: women in the Fiat factory

The following article was written by a Turin collective working on the problems of women employed by Fiat. It was published in Lotta Continua,…

Working class autonomy and the crisis - Red Notes

Some excerpts from the Red Notes book, Working Class Autonomy and the Crisis