Italy

SI Cobas picket at Fedex attacked by strikebreaking thugs

A report from the SI Cobas base union in Italy on an attack against their members at Fedex. Content…

[VIDEO] Interview with Augusto Masetti from 1964

A short televised interview with an elderly Italian Anarchist famous for his anti-militarist actions in 1911 when Italy was in the process of…

Social Centres And Struggle For Housing: Organizing With Immigrants In Italy

A short article from London Notes #1 1992

Demonstration for the liberation of Carlo and Arafat, Piacenza, March 2021

House arrests lifted

On March 26, the two SI Cobas coordinators for Piacenza, Carlo and Arafat, were released from their 14 days long house arrest. Video, 13min…

Migratory Flows: The Mass Worker And The Socialized Worker - Comitato Senza Frontiere

An autonomist analysis of immigration in and around Italy in from 1950s-1990s. Article from London…

Ruben SI Cobas

"We're not criminals"

SI Cobas base union activist Ruben talks about repression against workers and union officials in Piacenza in March 2021. Video, 7min, italian…

Simone Carpeggiani

9 months prison sentence for SI Cobas unionist

BREAKING - 9 months prison sentence against union coordinator for Bologna Simone Carpeggiani.

The Magneti Marelli Workers Committee - front cover

The Magneti Marelli Workers Committee - the "Red Guard" tells its story (Milan, 1975-78) - Emilio Mentasti

This remarkable book about one of the high points of workers' struggles in Italy …

Italy: The Capitalist Attacks Are Already Beginning

The following articles are translations of a statement and a leaflet issued by our sister organisation in Italy, Battaglia Comunista …

Zerocalcare Piacenza

Repression against striking workers in Italy

After blockades and a succesful strike at TNT-Fedex in Piacenza massive police operations and violence against workers and unionists: https://en…

Arditi del Popolo - The First Anti-Fascists

The rise to power of Mussolini and the Fascists in Italy, from 1919 to 1922, provides us with important lessons, not just about Fascism but also about the tactics & organisation necessary to fight it. Equally the critical role of the wider working class struggle is thrown into sharp focus. We believe the lessons are clear enough that they emerge simply from relating the story... Article from Fighting Talk #14 (1996)…

Michael Bakunin. Ein Lebensbild Georg Steklow

Michael Bakunin. Ein Lebensbild Georg Steklow

Biographies of Mikhail Bakunin https://libcom.org/library/biographies-works-about-mikhail-bakunin-reading-guide Verlag von J. H. W. Dietz Nachf.,…