Italy 60s-70s

Content about the mass struggles in Italy in the 1960s and 70s, known as the Creeping May, and the associated Years of Lead.

Giuseppe Pinelli

Giuseppe 'Pino' Pinelli (1928-1969): the 17th victim of the Piazza Fontana bombing

Short biography of Italian anarchist framed by the state and killed while in its custody.

Fighting For Feminism: The Womens Question in an Italian Revolutionary Group

A set of letters from the Lotta Continua newspaper discussing the relationship between feminism,…

Italian feminism, workerism and autonomy in the 1970s: The struggle against unpaid reproductive labour and violence - Patrick Cuninghame

Article about the autonomous women's movement in Italy in the 1970s, with…

Politics in the First Person: the autonomous workers movement in Italy - Wicked Messengers

Article about Autonomia Operaia and the radical workers' movement in Italy in the 1960s and 70s.

Aldo Moro's body, left by the Red Brigades in the back of a car in Rome.

Armed struggle in Italy, 1976-1978

Full text and images of a booklet containing a chronology of and documents on the armed struggle during the decline of the mass social movements…

Italy: women in the Fiat factory

The following article was written by a Turin collective working on the problems of women employed by Fiat. It was published in Lotta Continua,…

Working class autonomy and the crisis - Red Notes

Some excerpts from the Red Notes book, Working Class Autonomy and the Crisis

Let A Thousand Hands Reach Out To Pick Up The Gun - Nanni Balestrini

Short story depicting armed struggle in Italy in the 1970s by Nanni Balestrini, author of "The…

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.

Porto Marghera – the last firebrands

Excellent booklet on the widespread class struggle in the chemical factories of the Italian industrial zone of Porto Marghera in the 1960s and…

Workers in Italy's hot autumn of 1969

Cultural revolution - Lotta Continua

This article gives a brief overview of some of the social changes that took place in the mass struggles in the late 60’s.

Fiat workers strike in the hot autumn of 1969

Organising at Fiat, 1969

The speech of a worker from the Fiat Mirafiori plant outlining workers' organising efforts and lessons they had learned in the militant struggles…