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THE BOOK OF FIAT
Insurrection,
insubordination, occupation,
and revolutionary politics
at the FIAT motor company – 1907-1982
Published:
Red Notes / May Day Rooms, 2020
Edited
and translated: Ed Emery
ISBN: 978-0906305-14-0
CONTENTS
SECTION 0: Preface [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
SECTION 1: 1907-20:
THE EARLY DAYS – INSURRECTION AND WORKERS’ COUNCILS
Chapter 1: A CHRONOLOGY OF FIAT 1907-1939 – Translated from Primo Maggio, No. 2.
Chapter 2: “THE STRENGTH OF THE REVOLUTION – Article by Antonio Gramsci:
the General Strike in Turin, May 1920. Translated from L’Ordine nuovo, 8th May 1920. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 3: “THE TURIN FACTORY COUNCILS” – Article by Antonio Gramsci.
Report to the Executive Committee of the Communist International. Translated from L’Ordine nuovo, 14th March 1921. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 3.1: EXCERPT FROM ZANG TUMB TUUM – poem by F.T. Marinetti,
1914. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
SECTION 2: 1921-1943:
UNDER FASCISM: REACTION AND RESISTANCE
Chapter 4: THE ENGINEERING WORKERS’
STRIKES OF 1924-5 – Account edited from article by Marco Revelli. Translated from Mezzosecolo No. 1, 1975.
Chapter 5: THE “AGITATION COMMITTEES” IN
TURIN, 1925-1944 – Interview with
Battista Santhia. Edited and translated from Mezzosecolo No.
1, 1975. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 6: THE STRIKE AT LINGOTTO: MARCH
1943
– Account by F. Rocatti, translated from (?). [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
SECTION 3: 1944-1946:
ORGANISING AGAINST FASCISM — RESISTANCE AND THE LIBERATION
Chapter 7: ORGANISING IN THE RESISTANCE:
1943-45
– Account edited
from article by Aldo Agosti in I Comunisti a Torino,
Einaudi, Torino, 1974. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 7.1: THE AERIAL BOMBING OF TURIN:
8-9th NOVEMBER 1943 – Account from The Times.
Chapter 7.2: A CALL FOR INSURRECTION – Translated from L’Unità,
8th October 1944. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 8: THE WORKING CLASS AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY AT FIAT – Article by Liliana Lanzardo,
The Working Class and the Communist Party at FIAT 1945-49.
Chapter
9. THE COMMUNIST
PARTY IN THE RESISTANCE [2] – Article edited from E. Ragionieri,
I comunisti a Torino [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 10: THE COMMUNIST PARTY AT FIAT AFTER THE WAR
– Article by Ed Emery – Material drawn from Liliana Lanzardo. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
SECTION 4: 1947-1962:
THE “HARD YEARS” AND THE “REAWAKENING”
Chapter 11: “GATHERING SIGNATURES" – Edited account from article by E. Pugno and S. Garavini, translated
from Gli Anni Duri alla FIAT, Einaudi 19xx.
Chapter 12: "FROM VALLETTA TO PIAZZA STATUTO (1959-62)” – Interview with Lucio Parlanti, translated from Primo
Maggio No. 9/10, 1978. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
SECTION 5: 1962-69:
FROM PIAZZA STATUTO TO THE “HOT AUTUMN”
Chapter 13: FIAT: MID-POINT IN AN
INTERNATIONAL CYCLE – Article by Romano Alquati, published by Centro G. Francovich, May 1st 1967. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 13.1: THE FACTORY-SOCIETY
RELATIONSHIP AS A HISTORICAL CATEGORY – Article by Sergio Bologna,
translated from Primo Maggio. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 14: SPEECH BY A FIAT WORKER ABOUT
1969 – Article from La Classe newspaper,
August 1969 [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 15: INTERVIEW WITH THREE
FIAT-MIRAF1ORI WORKERS – Recorded in Turin, December 1970. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 16: TWENTY-THREE YEARS AT FIAT – Account by Franco Platania, recorded in Turin, 1974. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 17: THE EXPLOSION OF THE HOT AUTUMN – Speech by a FIAT worker, translated from La Classe No. 13-14, August 1969.
Chapter 18: THE WORKER-STUDENT ASSEMBLIES
IN TURIN
– Interview with Enrico Deagllo, recorded in
Turin, October 1974. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 19: “ON WITH THE REVOLUTION” – Article excerpted from The Economist, 12 July 1969. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 20: THE BATTLE OF CORSO TRAIANO [a] – Article translated from La Classe, No.
10, July 1969. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 21: THE BATTLE OF CORSO TRAIANO [b] – Account by Nanni
Balestrini, translated from Vogliamo Tutto, Einaudi,
19xx. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 22: “SERIOUS INCIDENTS AND ACTS OF
VIOLENCE”
– Edited account
translated from La Stampa,
30 October 1969. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 23: THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHOP
STEWARDS IN THE FACTORIES. The delegati movement,
as described by G. Giugni.
Chapter 24: “THE BALLAD OF FIAT” – A song by Alfredo Bandelli. Lotta Continua Records. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
SECTION 6: 1970-1975
RESTRUCTURING AT FIAT AND THE OCCUPATION OF THE FACTORIES
Chapter 25: DALLA LOTTA CONTINUA ALLA GUERRA DI CLASSE – A Chronology of the Struggle, April 1969 — April 1973,
translated from Controinformazione,
No. 0, 1973.
Chapter 25.1: TEN YEARS OF STRUGGLE AT SEAT –
WORKERS AGAINST FRANCO.
Chapter 26: RESTRUCTURING AT FIAT – Article translated from Potere Operaio (…).[READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 27: ABSENTEEISM AS A FORM OF
STRUGGLE
– Article
translated from (…). [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 28: LAVORARE CON LENTEZZA – A song by Enzo del Re. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 28.1: REVIEWING THE EXPERIENCE OF
ITALY IN THE 1970S – Article by Toni Negri. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 29: POLITICAL ORGANISING AT FIAT – Discussion with Lotta
Continua, recorded Turin 1975 (?).[READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 30: THE DECENTRALISATION OF FIAT’S
PRODUCTION
– Article
translated from Lotta Continua’s Workers’ Commission
Bulletin, February 1974. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 31: HOUSING STRUGGLES IN TURIN:
OCCUPATION OF NUOVA FALCHERA: NOVEMBER 1974. Reprinted
from Big Flame Bulletin, (Date?).
[READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 32: THE KIDNAPPING OF BRUNO LABATE – Edited article translated from Controinformazione,
No. 0, 1973. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 33: WOMEN WORKERS MARCH AT FIAT – Article from Lotta
Continua, 1979. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 34: LABOUR STRUGGLES AT
FIAT-CORDOBA, ARGENTINA: 1973.
Chapter 35: HOW WE TOOK OVER THE FACTORY:
The April 1973 factory occupations in Turin.
Chapter 35.1: MAP OF FIAT-MIRAFIORI
Chapter 36: THE 1973 FIAT AGREEMENT
SECTION 7: 1976-1980
“THE UNGOVERNABLE FACTORY”
Chapter 37: INTERVIEW WITH A FIAT-MIRAFIORI
WORKER: ORGANISING WORKERS’ AUTONOMY – Interview recorded in Turin, 7 May 1979. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 38: INTERVIEW WITH A FIAT FOREMAN – Edited account translated from Storie italiane di violenza e terrorismo, Laterza, 1980. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 39: THE SACKING OF “THE 61”. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 40: FIAT “PUBLIC SERVICE” VEHICLES.
[READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 41: WOMEN WORKERS AT FIAT – Article from the FLM women’s magazine. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 42: “A
REVOLUTIONARY AND COMMUNIST WORKER” – Statement by Red Brigades worker in
FIAT – Lotta Continua, 12
April 1980. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 43: “…AND NOW YOU FIND YOURSELF
WITH YOUR OWN FRIENDS DYING” – Lotta Continua, 2 April 1980. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 44: THE SACKINGS AT FIAT – SEPTEMBER 1980 [a] – Reprinted from Ed Emery, Reports
to the Serenissima, September 1980 [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 44.1: THE SACKINGS AT FIAT – SEPTEMBER 1980 [b] – Red Notes interview with
three FIAT workers [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
SECTION 8: 1980
’’THE THIRTY-FIVE DAYS OF FIAT”
Chapter 45: THE THIRTY-FIVE DAYS OF FIAT
[a] -
Chapter 46: THE THIRTY-FIVE DAYS OF FIAT
[b] – Edited articles from Lotta
Continua – September 1980 [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 47: ENRICO BERLINGUER COMES TO
TURIN. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
SECTION 9:
SUMMING UP
Chapter 48: THE SITUATION IN THE FACTORIES – Article by Ed Emery. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 49: “THOSE FORTY
THOUSAND” – Article from L'Espresso by F. Giustolisi. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 50: THE 1980
AGREEMENT AT FIAT. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter 51: “BACK TO SQUARE ONE AGAIN” – FIAT company advert. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
Chapter
52. FIAT WORKERS
AND THE OTHERS – Edited article by Marco Revelli, translated
from Primo Maggio,
No. xx. [READ] [DOWNLOAD]
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SECTION 10:
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
Chapter 10.1. COMMUNIST WORKERS SPEAK [Undated].
Chapter 10.2. THE SITUATION AT FIAT [Potere
Operaio, undated].
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