Turin

This article takes as its starting point the heady days of March 1973, when the FIAT workers of Mirafiori, Turin, once again played out their vanguard role in an uncompromising mass occupation of the factory, which was then taken up as a tactic by dozens of other engineering firms in the city and suburbs of Turin.

On 5 March 1998 the Italian police arrested 3 anarchists on serious charges of “subversive association for the purpose of constituting an armed…

For some time now, May 1 has been transformed into an institutional catwalk, an empty stage on which workers' conflicts, now devoid of a sense of…

A short biography of Giuditta Zanella, Italian anarchist who fought with the Durruti Column

The General Strike of 1920 in the city of Turin lead to workers occupying and running the factories themselves as part of an attempt to build a…

Nanni Balestrini’s fictionalized account of the Hot Autumn, in which a young worker from Italy’s impoverished south arrives at Fiat’s Mirafiori…

The story of the ExMoi occupation in Turin, a solution by radicals and refugees to the problems of homelessness amongst migrants in a city full…

Nicola Pizzolato on the commonalities between Detroit and Turin, Italy in the 1960s.

In the Susa Valley and Turin, tens of homes and even restaurants owned by No TAV activists from the…

While the media’s attention has been focussed on the Italian election results and their ramifications, workers continue to suffer, and the…

Verdi15, an occupied student residence, was cleared out. Students and left wing activists…

Nanni Balestrini was born in Milan in 1935. Known both as an experimental writer of prose and verse and as a cultural and political activist, he…