Interview with Barbara Balzeranni by Silvia di Bernardinis originally published in the Brazilian journal Mouro. 1: Starting from the present. How is it possible in the span of little more then two decades for a country which has seen such a high level of social conflict to now find …
Dear Dr Sica, while I was imprisoned in Trani, after the revolt from which I disassociated, you sent me an arrest warrant in connection to the kidnapping of D’Urso. This has profoundly offended me, not only because of its judicial impact, even though it is severe, but because once again …
1.2.1978 Rome: The court rejects the request for the residential detention of Marcello Blasi of the Via Volsci Collective made by the public prosecutor’s office and revokes his arrest warrant. The following day the precautionary arrest warrants against Vittoria Papale and Graziella Bastelli are also revoked and a new …
1.1.1978 Nuoro: Shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve, a vice-commissioner and a marshal of the carabinieri are injured by gunshots outside of the Nuoro prison. The action is claimed with a telephone call to the Nuoro daily paper on January 12th by the “Armed Nuclei of Combatants for …
Following the detention of the judge Giovanni D’Urso (December 12, 1980-January 1981), the political debate already ongoing for some months between the Prison Front and the Naples Column on one hand and the other articulations of the Red Brigades on the other, experiences an extreme radicalization. The Prison Front and …
In December 1979, the Red Brigades determine their position on the worker question and distributes booklet no.9 “On the Large Factories”. The Walter Alasia Column in Milan does not endorse the thesis set out in this document and refuses to distribute it, in the same month producing its own …
DISARTICULATE THE STATE! CONSTRUCT THE COMBATANT COMMUNIST PARTY AND THE REVOLUTIONARY MASS ORGANIZATIONS! WIN THE MASSES TO THE ARMED STRUGGLE FOR COMMUNISM! “We are the leaders and organizers of the revolutionary war and the leaders and organizers of the life of the masses: we have two responsibilities: to organize revolutionary …
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 …
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 …
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 …