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strategy of tension

The Black Prince: Borghese

1970: The Golpe Borghese coup plot in Italy

A short history of the aborted neofascist Golpe Borghese coup plot in Italy, 1970, and the subsequent repercussions.
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…
Pietro Valpreda, front row third from left, on a hunger strike demonstration

Valpreda, Pietro, 1933-2002

A short biography of the anarchist militant and dancer Pietro Valpreda who was caught up in the Strategy of Tension.
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…
Militant: Class struggle in 1970s Italy

Cassia, Salvatore, 1944-2002

A biography of Italian anarchist and electronics worker Salvatore Cassia.
Giovanni Marini

Marini, Giovanni, 1942-2001

A biography of Italian working class poet, writer and anarchist Giovanni Marini, caught up in Italy's Strategy of Tension and unjustly convicted…

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