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 organization Front Line was founded in the fall of 1976 in two meetings held in Salò and Stresa. The cadre who will form Front Line start to separate from the extra-parliamentary group Lotta Continua in the spring of 1974 and then on a mass scale in the fall of …
After the dissolution of Potere Operaio at the Rosolina conference (Rovigo, 31 May-3 June 1973) the majority of the Venetian militants of this organization – with the exception of sections in Venice and Verona -carry out a debate which leads, between 1974 and 1975, to the formation of 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 …
[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 Revolutionary Communist Committee (CoCoRi) is formed in Milan in the autumn of 1976 in the context of the Communist Committees for Worker’s Power and some other independent factory (Marelli Worker’s Committee, Falk Worker’s Committee) and neighborhood committees. Their area of political and cultural reference is that revolving around the …
After the dissolution of Worker’s Power, which took place during the Rosolina Congress (RO) in May-June 1973, militants of this structure formed the Communist Committees. Between the autumn of 1973 and the end of 1976, the most significant of them is in the Centocelle Communist Committee (CoCoCe) in Rome. In …
[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 …