01.03.1976 Rome: Molotov cocktail attack against carabinieri barracks in the Quadraro neighborhood. National: Attacks on carabinieri barracks in Florence, Genoa, Milan, Naples, Pisa, Rome and Turin. Some military vehicles are burned. A leaflet distributed in Turin claims these actions as a joint operation by the Red Brigades and the …
“You are beautiful brothers! Strength and solidarity are the greatest weapon to gain dignity.” Sam Melville-executed at Attica On June 20th, 1976, the Middlesex County Courthouse (Lowell, Massachusetts) was bombed by members of the Sam Melville-Johnathan Jackson Unit. The courthouse attack could possibly have been averted had Commissioner Frank Hall …
Françoise d’Eaubonne Feminism is looking to become what one is, and doing what one wants to do as an individual, and not as a woman. Jane O’REILLY, F., May 1979 We must first put forward the principle that the abolition of patriarchy and the establishment of a relationship with the …
February In a document issued by the clandestine paper Lotta armata per il communismo, the Red Brigades identify the carabinieri as their main target because, the carabinieri are “the specific weapons of the bourgeois for struggle against the revolutionary organizations”. In light of this document a series of unclaimed …
[English translation a slight modification of the draft issued in the Fall 1988 issue of Resistance. German text is available here] January 1987 Exploitation, the sexist division of labor and violence against women are for us components of the patriarchal ruling system without which imperialism in the Third World and here …
10.01.1976 Alessandria: Massimo Maraschi, the Red Brigades militant implicated in the Gancia kidnapping, and tried in Alessandria for the Cascina Spiotta shootout in Acqui (in which Red Brigades founding leader Mara Cagol was killed), sentenced to thirty years imprisonment. The ruling will be annulled on appeal in Turin a …
Throughout time, women have struggled in armed groups, but for the most part the reality of the contribution has been suppressed. But the times are now different. The contribution of women in the guerrilla has become so large that this mechanism no longer functions. The division of labour has also …
The organization Front Line was founded in the fall of 1976 in two meetings held in Salò and Stresa. The cadre who will form Front Line start to separate from the extra-parliamentary group Lotta Continua in the spring of 1974 and then on a mass scale in the fall of …
After the dissolution of Potere Operaio at the Rosolina conference (Rovigo, 31 May-3 June 1973) the majority of the Venetian militants of this organization – with the exception of sections in Venice and Verona -carry out a debate which leads, between 1974 and 1975, to the formation of a …
The name Barbagia Rossa makes its first appearance 27 March 1978 in a claim of responsibility for a firebomb attack carried out the previous day against a vehicle used to transport prisoners. On November 3, 1978 Barbagia Rossa carries out an attack on a radiogoniometer station in Siamaggiore …