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.

Italy's hot autumn, 1969

The Italian background - Ernest Dowson

A clear and succinct introduction to the background and events of the mass, militant class struggle in Italy in the 1960s and 70s.

Alfa Romeo Arese plant strike assembly, 1960s/70s

Against the state as boss - Autonomous Assembly of Alfa Romeo

A fascinating and detailed first person account of workers struggles at Italian state-owned auto…

1970s Fiats

An interview with workers at Fiat, 1970

Three workers from FIAT Mirafiori in Italy describe the experiences of the Southern immigrant coming to work in the industrial cities of the…

Autoreduction movements in Turin, 1974

Eddy Cherki and Michel Wieviorka's account of the workers' self-reduction of prices movement in the Italian city of Turin in the 1970s.

Workers in the Hot Autumn

Institutionalization from below: The unions and social movements - 1970s Italy

The chapter of Robert Lumley's excellent book on the mass struggles in Italy of the 60s and 70s…

The working class struggle against the crisis: self-reduction of prices in Italy - Bruno Ramirez

Bruno Ramirez's analysis of the Italian working class' response to the economic…

Worker and student struggles in Italy, 1962-1973 - Sam Lowry

A history of the wave of strikes and occupations that gripped Italian factories and universities…

Bologna, 13th March 1977.

Italy 1977-8: Living with an earthquake - Red Notes

A superb pamphlet from a time when a very high level of class struggle dominated Italian society. Despite their differences - the state, church,…

Capitalist domination and working class sabotage - Antonio Negri

Antonio Negri on capitalism, working class sabotage and the refusal of work following the mass…

Students in Italy, 1968

Cattivi Maestri: Some Reflections on the Legacy of Guido Bianchini, Luciano Ferrari Bravo and Primo Moroni - Steve Wright

Steve Wright's analysis of the ideas of three Marxists who, along with Antonio…

Strikers in 1969

Reviewing the experience of Italy in the 1970s - Negri

Antonio Negri recalls the political experience of various aspects of the mass struggles of the 1970s…

Giuseppe Pinelli

Pinelli, Giuseppe “Pino”, 1928-1969

A short biography of Giuseppe Pinelli, anarchist railway worker who was murdered by police in the Strategy of Tension. He was immortalised in…