ANNI DI PIOMBO - THE LEAD YEARS -Terrorism in Italy - (books and docs)

[Jordan]

http://www.notbored.org/reichstag.html
http://www.notbored.org/To-Mustapha.pdf

[tiny_tove]

Violent deaths in political movements http://books.google.nl/books?id=wKz1I-yJDJEC&pg=PA179&lpg=PA179&dq=rito+fascista+del+presente&source=bl&ots=5kfssyYfjB&sig=OqWjmtJT4tKgv-gkF-XPHTHMV1U&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=aXB8VIKND5PdsASLmoGADg&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=rito%20fascista%20del%20presente&f=false

[Jordan]

I'm currently proofing Ardent Press/LBC Books' reprint of the Elephant Editions reprint of  Bratach Dubh's translations of Anarchismo magazine, though it's mostly selections from Armed Struggle in Italy (1976-1978), a chronology of radical actions. It's available around the internet, but you should really buy the edition I'm working on, when it comes out in the next couple of months.

It's a lot of work, as there are a hell of a lot of Italian names, and I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out what program to use to edit the pdf file without totally fucking up the formatting, but I'm happy to be helping out the most exciting anarchist publisher in a long time. Hopefully future books I work on won't have so many foreign names, I'm hoping to work on the 30th anniversary edition of Bob Black's The Abolition of Work, which is actually a new collection of old antiwork writings, with a new essay  titled "Afterthoughts On The Abolition Of Work", rather than a reprint of the Loompanics book, which has a lot of sort of dated references in the other essays.

[tiny_tove]

very interesting indeed! let us know when it is out.
I will soon post hints about new books on the subject that I recently came across especially Maurizio Murelli's Indian Summer.

[tiny_tove]

One of the most important Red Brigade article regarding multinational power. Still strong after so many years.

http://www.fisicamente.net/MEMORIA/index-1131.htm

[Strömkarlen]

I guess it's time to dig up the past. I saw that the Gelli died. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35115576 Has any new information surfaced with his death or are we just left with our own speculations?

[Le mouron rouge]

Yes, it is worth. I am italian and I love the Italian history during the ''lead years''. I have bought the Flamigni's book several years go and I find it complete about the reconstruction of events. I don't know if there is any translation..

[ell]

Great thread. tinytove, what's your thoughts on the charge that the whole 'strategy of tension' theory originated from a hoax document created by the soviets?

[no_baizuo_allowed]

Can any users on here enlighten the rest of us as to the context of Swastika Kommando's "Public Assault 1 / 7- April -1979" tape? B side has an interview with Toni Negri; nearly all copies confiscated by carabinieri... something tells me it might be relevant to this thread. The tape was too dangerous and inflammatory, perhaps?

[nezalezhnye]

Does anybody have the name of the bar in Buenos Aires Argentina that was supposedly owned by exiled Propaganda Due members?

[ekastaka]

https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2021/10/03/years-of-lead/

[tiny_tove]

Celebrating the death of Italy's queen of terror Balbara Balzerani.

https://www.ilmessaggero.it/AMP/en/the_life_and_controversies_of_barbara_balzerani_from_red_brigades_militant_to_public_provocations-7973719.html



She was one of the meanest and most radical figures who only served a little sentence and then bragged about murder and mass carnages without nobody telling her anything. She only regretted once about the many deaths of those years yet taking the piss of the 40th anniversary of the Via Fani assault.

A ruthless planner as well as the queen of victim blaming

[tiny_tove]

GREAT documentary with interviews to 4 protagonists of the lead years including an intense interview with Barbara Balzerani

"Four women defy the law of silence and speak out in  both frank and accurate fashion about their years as members of the Red Brigades, the largest communist terrorist organisation in post-war Italy. A personal discourse, averse to any myth, slogan or apology.

In Italy, in the mid-seventies, Adriana, Barbara, Nadia and Susanna were 20 years old when they decided to join the armed struggle and leave behind their social life and their families in order to make the revolution the center and the aim of their existence. They decide to join the Red Brigades, often seen as the largest communist terrorist organization in post-war Italy, becoming central figures in the movement. Today they have returned after many years in prison, and they try, each one of them, to recount their own experiences. They speak about the political reasons which initially sustained them, the conflicts, the doubts, and the moments of being torn apart which market out their lives as women caught up in the vortex of war. A course of events which ended in the condemnation of the armed struggle and the pain of the lives that were destroyed – their victims' lives and their own.
"

[Commander15]

For finns i would recommend books
"Mustat vuodet : uusfasismi Italiassa 1945-2016" and "Punaiset prikaatit – Italian väkivallan vuodet 1970–1988". They're pretty good primers into this subject.