Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 08:24:45 +1000
From: sjwright-AT-vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Steve Wright)
Subject: Pisa demonstration?


List members outside Italy may not be aware, but the revolutionary movement
of the seventies in that country has been very much in the news there of
late.

Apart from scattered media references to the twentieth anniversary of the
events of 1977 (and twenty years ago today, the head of the 'left' union
confederation was expelled from a then-occupied Rome university), there has
been the re-imprisonment (after a series of appeals to higher courts) of
three former leaders of Lotta Continua, accused of organising the 1972
murder of the police commissioner widely believed to have been responsible
for the anarchist Pinelli (remember the play 'Accidental Death of an
Anarchist'?).

A couple of days ago there was a demonstration in Pisa against the
imprisonment of the ex-Lotta Continua leaders. Many of the social centres
were intending to broaden this demand into a call for the release or return
>from exile of all those still charged or sentenced for activities in the
seventies. On the other hand, there are those in Italy - particularly in
the political establishment, in which some of Lotta Continua's most
prominent former leaders immersed themselves in the eighties - who wish to
protest this re-imprisonment simply as an 'aberration' of 'justice', and
leave all else well alone.

So could anyone who might have been in Pisa tell us what happened, and/or
something about the mood in Italy right now?

Posso tradurre dall'italiano se preferisci . . .

And as soon as I can finally iron out all the technical, legal language, I
will post an appeal from Padova for all those still charged or sentenced
for activities in the seventies.

Steve

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