9 months prison sentence for SI Cobas unionist
Submitted by Johanna Schellhagen on Mar 24 2021 13:46
BREAKING - 9 months prison sentence against union coordinator for Bologna Simone Carpeggiani.
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 (and the world) in the 1960s and '70s is now available in English.
I'm making it available here in mobi and epub formats, so you should be able to read it on most electronic devices.
A paper copy of this book can be obtained from the publisher, Autonomedia/Minor Compositions:
https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1002
And a fine paper copy it is! Nicely layed out and on good quality paper... And there's a free PDF for you to download too.
The Introduction to the English Edition is below.
Italy: The Capitalist Attacks Are Already Beginning
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 16 2021 18:56
The following articles are translations of a statement and a leaflet issued by our sister organisation in Italy, Battaglia Comunista (Internationalist Communist Party).
Repression against striking workers in Italy
Submitted by Johanna Schellhagen on Mar 15 2021 14:11
After blockades and a succesful strike at TNT-Fedex in Piacenza massive police operations and violence against workers and unionists:
https://en.labournet.tv/repression-against-striking-workers-italy
Anarchists in a Workers Uprising: Italys Biennio Rosso
An article tracing the development of the Italian Biennio Rosso and the anarchist movements role. Largely focusing on the Italian Anarchist Union (UAI) and Italian Syndicalist Union (USI)
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
Biographies of Mikhail Bakunin
[url= https://libcom.org/library/biographies-works-about-mikhail-bakunin-reading-guide]https://libcom.org/library/biographies-works-about-mikhail-bakunin-reading-guide[/url]
Verlag von J. H. W. Dietz Nachf., Stuttgart 1913.
from
https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/dietz-kb/kb30a.pdf
Biographies of and works about Mikhail Bakunin - reading guide
Submitted by jondwhite on Jan 23 2021 16:10
100 Years Since Livorno
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 22 2021 22:43
In January 1921, more than three years after the October Revolution in Russia, some two years since the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in Berlin at the behest of the German Social Democratic Party, and in the aftermath of two wasted years of workers’ factory occupations in Italy itself, the intransigent revolutionaries in the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), led by Amadeo Bordiga, finally won the day and broke from the old party of compromise and accommodation with capital to form the Communist Party of Italy (PCd’I).
Wealth Tax: Expropriation of the Rich or Capitalist Smokescreen?
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 16 2021 15:16
As the bourgeoisie wracks its brains for solutions to this epochal crisis, the tax lever has become one of the main tools that left reformists believe will end capitalist aggression and bring substantial benefits to the depleted pockets of the proletariat.
