Years of Lead Pod

Works cited Alfredo M. Bonanno, Introduction of “Io so chi ha ucciso il commissario Luigi Calabresi,” Trieste: Edizioni Anarchismo, 2007, found at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-i-know-who-killed-chief-superintendent-luigi-calabresi Mario Calabresi, Spingendo la notte più in là. Storia della mia famiglia e di altre vittime del terrorismo , Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Edito...

Veronica Bortolussi, DISSERTATION: La Strage di Petano e la Strategia della Tension . Udine: Università degli Studi di Udine, 2014, found at https://guidosalvini.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Veronica-Bortolussi-La-strage-di-Peteano-e-la-strategia-della-tensione.pdf Anna Cento Bull, Italian Neofascism: The Strategy of Tension and the Politics of Nonreconciliation . New York: Berghahn, 2007. Aldo G...

Works Cited Jeffrey Bale, The Darkest Sides of Politics: Postwar Fascism, Covert Operations, and Terrorism (London: Routledge 2018). Anna Cento Bull, Italian neofascism: The strategy of tension and the politics of nonreconciliation (New York: Berghahn Books, 2008). Aldo Giannuli, Bombe a inchiostro . Milan: Rizzoli, 2008. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the P...

Works Cited Jeffrey Bale, The Darkest Sides of Politics: Postwar Fascism, Covert Operations, and Terrorism (London: Routledge 2018). Anna Cento Bull, Italian neofascism: The strategy of tension and the politics of nonreconciliation (New York: Berghahn Books, 2008). Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity (New York: NYU Press, 2001). Nicola Ra...

References: Storia di Classe, "2 settembre 1970: fallito attentato del Superclan all'ambasciata Usa di Atene ," September 2, 2017, Infoaut, https://www.infoaut.org/storia-di-classe/2-settembre-1970-fallito-attentato-del-superclan-allambasciata-usa-di-atene Donatella Alfonso. Animali di periferia. Le origini del terrorismo tra Golpe e Resistenza tradita. La storia inedita della Banda XXII . Rome: C...

References: Donatella Alfonso. Animali di periferia. Le origini del terrorismo tra Golpe e Resistenza tradita. La storia inedita della Banda XXII . Rome: Castelvecchi 2012. Chris Aronson Beck, Reggie Emilia, Lee Morris, and Ollie Patterson, Strike One to Educate a Thousand, The Rise of the Red Brigades 1960s-1970s . Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2019. Giovanni Bianconi, Mi dichiaro prigioniero politico:...

I interviewed Valerio Alfonso Bruno, PhD, on the rise of the Brothers of Italy, the reasons for their popularity, their relationship to other far-right parties and movements, and their importance for Italy's relationship to Europe and Russia. Dr. Bruno is at the Catholic University of Milan and a fellow at Mapping the Far Right Truth Industry and the Center for European Futures. He recently coauth...

Featuring Phil Edwards : Dr Edwards studied English at Cambridge and worked in IT and the media for several years before gaining an MA and PhD from the University of Salford. His doctoral research, published as More Work! Less Pay! in 2009, used qualitative and quantitative data to analyse the growth and decline of radical social movements in 1970s Italy. He came to Manchester Metropolitan Univers...

Featuring Phil Edwards : Dr Edwards studied English at Cambridge and worked in IT and the media for several years before gaining an MA and PhD from the University of Salford. His doctoral research, published as More Work! Less Pay! in 2009, used qualitative and quantitative data to analyse the growth and decline of radical social movements in 1970s Italy. He came to Manchester Metropolitan Univers...

References Simone Balocco e Paola Maggiora, "I “sanbabilini”...e Milano ebbe paura," TuttoStoria.net , http://www.tuttostoria.net/tutto-storia-autori.aspx?code=915 . David Barra, "Ray-Ban, giacche di pelle e saluti romani: breve storia dei 'sanbabilini,'" Vice and Spazio70, December 12, 2017, https://www.vice.com/it/article/d3dvez/chi-erano-sanbabilini-anni-settanta . Saverio Ferrari. 12 Aprile 19...

Nanni Balestrini, Primo Moroni, La Orda d'Oro: 1968-1977, La grande ondata rivoluzionaria e creativa, politica ed esistenziale (Milan: Feltrinelli, 2007). Chris Aronson Beck, Reggie Emilia, Lee Morris, and Ollie Patterson, Strike One to Educate a Thousand, The Rise of the Red Brigades 1960s-1970s (Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2019). Luigi Bobbio, Storia di Lotta Continua (Milan: Feltrinelli, 1988). Ald...

Works Cited Cazzullo, Aldo. I ragazzi che volevano fare rivoluzione: 1968-1978: storia di Lotta Continua. Milan: Mondadori, 2015. Edwards, Phil. "More work! Less pay!": Rebellion and repression in Italy, 1972–77. Manchester University Press, 2013. Malamente, "Naufragio a terra – La rivolta di San Benedetto del Tronto, dicembre 1970," December 2, 2020, Sannucci, Corrado. Lotta Continua: Gli uomini...

Table of Contents 0.00: Recap 4.05: Organizational Shuffling and Role Switching 11.10: The Five Anarchists 15.35: The Republic of Sbarre 24.50: Faltering Compromises 32.00: The First 'Ndrangheta War 42.03: A Rough Conclusion References Luigi Ambrosi. La Rivolta di Reggio: Storia di territori, violenza e populismo nel 1970. (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino Editore, 2009). Alessia Candito. " Stefano De...

Table of Contents 0.00: Introduction 1.00: Summary 5.00: Background 10.00: Introducing the 'ndrangheta 14.30: Economic and Social Conditions 27.00: Avanguardia Nazionale 33.00: The De Stefanos 35.30: The National Front 42.00: The Mushroom Hunters 46.20: Early Bombings 50.40: Protests and Riots 52.50: Left-Wing Bows Out 58.00: La strage di Gioia Tauro References Luigi Ambrosi. La Rivolta di Reggio:...

References Jeffrey Bale, The Darkest Sides of Politics: Postwar Fascism, Covert Operations, and Terrorism (London: Routledge 2018). Anna Cento Bull, Italian neofascism: The strategy of tension and the politics of nonreconciliation (New York: Berghahn Books, 2008). Brendan Leonard Connors. The US Foreign Service in Italy and the Byington Family Consular Dynasty in Naples (1897-1973) . DISSERTATION....

Guest Host, Shane Burley is an author and filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (AK Press, 2017) and Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse and the editor of the forthcoming anthology ¡No pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis. His work is featured in places such as NBC News, Al Jazee...

Guest host , Shane Burley is an author and filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (AK Press, 2017) and Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse and the editor of the forthcoming anthology ¡No pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis. His work is featured in places such as NBC News, Al Jaze...

On the heels of the outbreak of the tumultuous student movement in 1967, workers' uprisings erupted throughout Italy, bringing the struggle from the factories into the streets in a revolutionary movement that culminated in the "Hot Autumn" of 1969. This is the story of the rise of the New Left in Italy and the wave of reaction to it that set the stage for the Years of Lead.  Includes intervie...

Featuring interviews with Sandro Portelli : From 2004 to 2008 he served as Rome’s Mayor’s advisor on historical memory; in 2005-6 he was a member of Rome’s city council. He is the founder and chairman of the Circolo Gianni Bosio, an independent organization for the study and promotion of people’s cultures, folk music and oral history. He has served as visiting professor, research fellow and in oth...