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.

Potere Operaio

The Workerists and the unions in Italy's 'Hot Autumn'

A brief history of the Italian Workerists in the 'Hot Autumn' of 1969, when unions succeeded in…

Obituary: Goliardo Fiaschi, 1930-2000 - Stuart Christie

Obituary of Italian anarchist Goliardo Fiaschi by Stuart Christie from the Guardian newspaper.

Students and workers fight together on the streets of Bologna

1977: The Bologna uprising

A very brief outline of the seizure of Bologna by workers and students in 1977, and the run-up to it following the shooting of a demonstrator.

Operation Gladio

1958-1990: Operation Gladio, Italy

The history of the secret neo-fascist army in Italy set up ostensibly to resist Soviet invasion, but in reality to be used in the event of the…

August 2 1980 Bologna Central Station attack

1969-?: The strategy of tension in Italy

Information about the Italian state's "Strategy of Tension" policy in which it carried out terrorist attacks against its own people in order to…

Aerial view of Via Tibaldi today

1971: Via Tibaldi occupation

A short history of an occupation of empty housing in Italy by workers who had inadequate accomodation. Their direct action and solidarity forced…

Via Mac Mahon, top left to bottom right

1971: The Quarto Oggiaro occupation

A short history of a militant mass occupation of empty housing in Milan, Italy, 1971 which pressured the government to give in and provide the…

1971: The people's clinic, Rome

The history of the residents in one of Rome's outlying ghettos who had inadequate health care provision. Seizing a government building, they and sympathetic health workers set up their own medical centre and ran it collectively.

When two sevens clash: punk and autonomia

An article on the relationship between punk and Autonomia presented by Keir at the No Future conference, September 2001.

In the Shell of the Old - Italy's Social Centres

Article from the 1990s containing information about Italy's movement of political squats called "social centres."

Take over the city: community struggle in Italy - Lotta Continua

Excellent article from Lotta Continua about different struggles of workers in their local areas in…

The limits of Negri's class analysis: Italian autonomist theory in the seventies - Steve Wright

Steve Wright's critical analysis of Negri's ideas.