[Source: Corrispondenza Internazionale, May/September 1980. pp 87-91. Original translation edited for clarity.] The following is a document sent by militants of the Red Brigades prisoners in the jail of Palmi, against economist, subjectivist and militarist tendencies in this issue of Corrispondenza Internazionale we are only publishing a translation of the …
[the following is a preliminary draft translation from the French text in Ligne Rouge Number Four. The original Italian can be found in Le parole scritte of Maria Rita Prette’s Progetto Memoria] Red Brigades-Walter Alasia Column: One More Step 1983 Introduction “In fields the oranges are scattered, In groups …
I will always be, and this time in the best, more correct and more difficult way, a communist, a revolutionary…. I am not here to ask for leniency, I have come here before you, but not for the reasons that a common prisoner presents himself in court: to defend himself …
“Strike one to educate one hundred” Chapter 4: The Red Brigades appear: factory actions The first stage of the armed struggle was one of propaganda actions, not directed to Italian society at large, but breaking out within the workers’ struggle already going on. The Red Brigades were rooted in the …
“Strike one to educate one hundred” Chapter 3: Preparation for a new resistance: C.P.M. In the winter-spring of 1969-70 the CPM grew to be one of the key organizations in Milan. It continued to operate inside the factories where the C.U.B.s and study groups that had given birth to …
“Strike one to educate one hundred” Chapter 2: New Left Up to the Formation of the BR This chapter reviews the events that led at the end of the 1960’s to the start of urban guerrilla warfare in Italy. We can see two processes at work. The first was the …
“Strike one to educate one hundred” INTRODUCTION This work has a certain degree of difficulty and is intended for the serious student, who needs an understanding of repression. It is based on the key documents of the strategic debate within the Italian revolutionary movement as they approached armed confrontation …
Strike One to Educate One Hundred the rise of the Red Brigades in Italy in the 1960s-1970s by Chris Aronson Beck, Reggie Emilia, Lee Morris and Ollie Patterson A Seeds Beneath the Snow Publication Long-rumoured to be out of print, this book is a sympathetic appraisal of the marxist-leninist Red …