Not Guilty! Nine amazing legal defences and unlikely verdicts from history
Submitted by R Totale on Apr 8 2018 15:11
A review of nine amazing legal defences and unlikely acquittals from history:
Another vision of sport: Palestre Popolari in Italy, an interview with CoNaSP red gym trainers
A report from Brighton Anti-Fascists on their meetings with trainers from two of Italy's 'red gyms', part of the National Coordination of Popular Sport (CoNaSP), on their activities in the community, how they got started and why popular sport is important.
Full transcribed interview with CoNaSP trainers Giulio (Palestra Populare Valerio Verbano) and Luigi (Palestra Popolare Palermo)
Interview with two trainers from the National Coordination of Popular Sport (CoNaSP), a network of gyms run collectively by anti-fascists in Italy, the ideas and history behind them and some thoughts for those who might be thinking about starting their own.
War is Declared! - Joseph Déjacque
An article in Le Libertaire written in response to the beginning of the Second War of Italian Independece. A conflict that heavily involved French troops against the Habsburg Empire.
Gig economy strike and the Bologna Riders Union
Submitted by Cipo Fraioli on Mar 5 2018 21:55
Riders for a range of food delivery apps in Bologna have taken strike action over poor wages and working conditions, setting up the Bologna Riders' Union.
Transnational radicals: labour dissent and political activism in Detroit and Turin (1950–1970) - Nicola Pizzolato
Investigates the entangled histories of radical auto-workers in Detroit and Turin who challenged capital, the state and the unions, and instead emphasized the importance of autonomous workers' struggle at the point of production for the destruction of capitalism. The article looks at the relations between black auto-workers of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement/League of Revolutionary Black Workers and the auto-workers, and workerist [operaismo] current in Italy.
Gewapende vreugde - Alfredo M. Bonanno
De meest beruchte tekst van de Italiaanse opstandsanarchist Alfredo Bonanno, Gewapende vreugde uit 1977, is een oproep tot militante, speelse actie. Het boek werd verboden in Italië en na publicatie vernietigd.
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Bologna supporters fined for anti-police brutality protest
Submitted by Ed on Jan 29 2018 15:54
Supporters of Bologna football club have been fined for their protest during an away game at Napoli on Sunday to commemorate the violent murder of a teenager by police officers in Ferrara, Northern Italy.
New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism
This is the first book to compile workers’ struggles on a global basis, examining the formation and expansion of radical unions in the Global South and Global North.
Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red
The history of the left is usually told as one of factionalism and division. This collection of essays casts new light to show how the boundaries between Marxism and anarchism have been more porous and fruitful than is conventionally recognised.
