In the Milan area some militants coming out of the experiences of the Communist Brigades and the Combatant Communist Formations, interested in deepening the analysis of the apparatus of information and intervention deployed against them form Red Guerrilla in the Spring of 1979. This formation carries out some minor sabotage …
Between the end of May and the beginning of June 1973, the extra-parliamentary group Potere Operaio, announces its own dissolution at a meeting in Rosolina. Some militants of the dissolved organization joining with others from Lotta Continua and from the area of Worker’s Autonomy found the magazine Rosso in …
Militants of the communist armed struggle in Italy fallen in combat or in prison, underground life or exile 1972-2009 GIANGIACOMO FELTRINELLI: The first comrade to lose his life, during an action with explosives. On March 15th 1972, in the Milan suburb of Segrate. Leader of the GAP. Forty six years …
The “Ermino Ferretto” Proletarian Brigade took its name from a partisan who fell in the Resistance. It was formed in 1972 in Mestre in the context of the autonomous struggles which developed in that period in the petrochemical and other factories of the Venetian industrial zone. On the 26th …
Dante di Nanni was a Turin worker active in the GAP formation of the Resistance who was killed by the Nazi fascists in 1944. The Dante Di Nanni Assault Brigade was formed in 1976 on the initiative of militants from the Marxist-Leninist scene in Tuscany. The main actions of this …
01.04.1976 Milan: Three cars are torched overnight. One of them belongs to a trade unionist at Alfa Romeo. Rome: A neo-fascist is assaulted outside of his home. 02.04.1976 Milan: A five person commando enters the Magneti Marelli location on via Crescenzago during a meeting. They draw the five pointed star …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …