Italy 60s-70s

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…

For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of Italy’s cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant…

A text translated by Evan Calder Williams from Rosso, an Italian communist journal, from 1974. It’s written by the rather formally named “Study…

An obitatury for Italian Marxist, Romano Alquati, who passed away in April of 2010 at the age of 75.

An 1973 interview with a member of Lotta Continua, an Italian anticapitalist organization linked to the operaismo and autonomia movements.

A primer on the where the Italian movement of 1973 came out of and a description of some of the…

Issue of Radical America journal from March-April 1973 focusing on the mass struggles going on at…

An article on Leninism and vanguardism written in 1968 for the Potere Operaio group of Pisa. (This group was active from 1967-1969 when it merged…

An analysis of the situation in Italy during 1973 by the group, Potere Operaio (Workers' Power).

Mario Tronti looks back at the development of Italian operaismo during the 1950s/60s.

A list of links and primers for the Italian movements of the 60s and 70s.

Semiotext(e)'s book Autonomia: Post-Political Politics about the Autonomia movement, which contains first-hand documents and contemporaneous…