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 …
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 …
Cirro Rizzato, fallen in combat On the 14th of October, comrade Cirro Rizzato was executed by members of the anti-criminality section of the police. He was part of a group of revolutionaries who had devoted themselves to carrying out expropriations in the Paris region recently. Money is indispensable in the …
Here imprisoned militants of the historic leadership of the BR criticize the clandestine national leadership of the organization for a militarist and authoritarian approach to the qualitative leap in the area of autonomy produced by the movement of 1977 (referred to by the BR and its supporters since at least …
The Communist Territorial Nuclei are an autonomous formation, which operates in the Turin area in accordance with the thesis of Prima Linea (PL). Its main points of orientation are “territorial control” and “construction of the proletarian army”. The factory is at the center of its most significant interventions. Some of …
The Revolutionary Communist Movement appears in the Winter of 1979 as the signature for some armed actions carried out in the context of the “housing struggle”. The first action of the MCR is a raid on the Union of Small Real Estate Owners in Rome in November 1979. This is …