What does it mean to build the organization of proletarian power in the current period of the class war? In this period in which the restructuring of the state has reached a point where it can no longer tolerate any proletarian struggle that steps outside the operational schema of capital …
Women from all sections of the proletariat occupy an inferior, subordinate, and worse paid position in relation to men. Moreover they suffer from the serfdom of domestic labor. Women’s labor, including that performed in the home, is therefore antagonistic to capitalist society. The awakening of women’s struggles and the implicit …
We want to be clear: On Via Fani on March 16th it was no mysterious “007s” from who knows where who went into battle; it was comrades from the political vanguard. Tempered in the struggles of the working class and the proletariat in our country. They were communist fighters who …
Last year saw the 40th anniversary of the 1978 Spring Campaign of the Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse, or BR), a month-Âlong offensive against the Italian state initiated by the kidnapping of Aldo Moro. May 16th, 1978, was the date on which a new cabinet, one which included for the first …
In the transition from armed peace to war, the revolution/counter-Ârevolution confrontation grows increasingly direct and generalized, but there is not, as some claim, a transformation of the democratic state into a fascist state. Instead we find ourselves confronted by a state which through restructuring has experienced a modification in the …
Strike One to Educate One Hundred the rise of the Red Brigades in Italy in the 1960s-1970s by Chris Aronson Beck, Reggie Emilia, Lee Morris and Ollie Patterson A Seeds Beneath the Snow Publication Many years ago, we scanned in the first four chapters of Strike One, as the book …
A comrade sent me the following article about the capture of some people trying to re-establish the Red Brigades in Italy. It’s from the Wall Street Journal, and so bound to be neither sympathetic nor necessarily even accurate, but nevertheless worth a quick read. For more on the historic Red …