Italy 60s-70s

A collection of articles about the class struggle in Italy in the mid 1970s. Published in London in…

On Western Maoism, Autonomia, culture, Umberto Eco etc.

Part 2: On the 1970 Situationist Reorientation Debate, the Never Work(ing) worker. Mayakovsky /…

"Certain publications of the so-called movement are staging a sinister leftist farce of madness which has nothing to do with real madness". An…

A personal memory... .and the link between intensifying cultural commodification, increasing state repression and the spectre of terrorism…

A English-language pamphlet on the assassination of anarchist railway worker Giuseppe Pinelli in 1969 by Milan police - and related context on…

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.

This article is Negri's account of the broad development of the organisation of the revolutionary Left in Italy, from 1968 to 1973, and their crisis in the latter period. The article carries Negri's rejection of the line of terrorism and the line of institutional (e.g. electoral) politics. It also touches on one of the themes of the Autonomy area in 1973 - the organisation of insurrection. He also explores the…

This article is taken from the newspaper Potere Operaio, in 1973 (before that organisation's self-dissolution). It looks at some of the facts and figures of the crisis of Italian capitalism in the wake of the workers' struggles of 1969-70. The broad lines of the employers' strategy are dealt with, together with the changing form of the State: ("It was the role of the State as a general economic planner that had to…

A brief chronology and glossary of the Italian autonomous left movement. This sketch political chronology was prepared for us by a member of the Italy '79 Defence Committee.

Prefaces to "Working Class Autonomy and the Crisis" by Red Notes and Conference of Socialist Economists.

In June 1982 the trial begins against the Italian workers' autonomy movement — a show-trial without precedent in post-War Europe. Here the…