The Italian "Hot Autumn".

[Os Cangaceiros]

Is there any good references on this subject?

I recently read a bit about it in a single chapter concerning it in a book on Europe. From the little I've read, it seemed that the worker actions there had some serious potential.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Nothing? Nothing at all?

:(

[which doctor]

Was this in the seventies during the wildcat strikes in Italy? I believe the Subversion of Politics has some stuff on it.

[Os Cangaceiros]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Autumn

Ha, the Wiki article sucks.

Here's an brief excerpt about it from the chapter on it:

"On the other side of the Alps, Italian workers had been involved in a similar mobilization cycle, slowly increasing their strike activity from 1966 onward. In 1967, 2.24 million workers downed their tools. The numbers more than doubled in 1968. But it was not until 1969, and here particularly the last quarter, that the high point of strike activity was reached: 5.5 million workers walked off their jobs in a series of local, regional, and national strikes. On 19 November 1969, almost the entire Italian workforce participated in a one day general strike. And, as was the case in France as well, labor-management conflicts continued at an accelerated rate for the next half dozen years or so. Another similarity to the situation one year earlier in neighboring France was the fact that the Italian "Hot Autumn" led to a fundamental political regime crisis."

I think that the most impressive element of the whole affair was the worker's councils and self management that came out of it.

[Sankara1983]

I coincidentally found this a few days ago, but I haven't listened to it yet.

http://www.marxist.com/audio-italy-1969-hot-autumn.htm