Lotta Continua
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Lotta Continua was a far left political party in Italy, involved in the autonomism movement. It was founded in Autumn 1969 by a split in the student-worker movement of Turin, which had started struggles at the university and at the Fiat factory. The other section, led by Antonio Negri, became Potere Operaio. The first issue of Lotta Continua 's eponym newspaper was published in November 1969, a few weeks before the December 12, 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing, which is considered as the beginning of Gladio's strategy of tension. Lotta Continua focused on work spreading radicalisation from students and youth to workers, and played a large role in setting up social centres.
The group's leadership included Adriano Sofri, Mauro Rostagno, Guido Viale, Giorgio Pietrostefani, Paolo Brogi and Marco Boato. Other notable contributors included Gad Lerner and Pier Paolo Pasolini. At first a loose grouping with a focus on spontaneous action, it was centralised between 1972 and 1974, with its paper becoming a daily. As opportunities became more limited, it disbanded in 1976, but the newspaper was published until 1982.
During the 1980s, most of Lotta Continua 's representatives abandoned their original ideology. Marco Boato and Mimmo Pinto went to the Radical Party, others worked on TV (RAI or Fininvest) or in various newspapers. Finally, almost all of them finished by sympathizing with the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), supporting in particular Bettino Craxi's positions. Only a few of them, such as Marco Revelli or Fulvio Grimaldi, took membership into Rifondazione Comunista.
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