In March 1973 on the initiative of some militants of Potere Operaio who left that organization following the Rosolina conference in the same year, and others coming from Lotta Continua and the area of autonomy the bimonthly journal Rosso begins publication. A wide area of debate emerges around this publication …
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 …
01.03.1976 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 …
[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 …
[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 …