Again literally the title of Autonomist author Nanni Balestrini's novel about the factory occupations of the Italian Hot Autumn of 1969 but like hey who fucking reads or learns history or any of that nerd shit when you could copjacket anarchists

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You'd think with a name like the hot Autumn of '69 people would pay attention to it but no

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1. Fuck it doing a thread about the Hot Autumn of '69. Post WWII Italy was one of the most rapidly industrializing countries on earth. Millions of people who’d once done agricultural labor flooded into the cities of Italy and filled their

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2. factories with a new, incredibly militant industrial proletariat. From the 60’s to the 80’s Italy would be the center of the class war in Europe as the proletariat fought a massive series of battles against the Italian and international

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3. bourgeoisie from the shop floor to the streets.The center of this struggle was the great Fiat factories of the Italian industrial triangle, particularly a massive 50,000 person factory in the city of Turin. Mass strikes in Italy had begun to

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3. escalate in the early and mid 60’s and when the revolutions of 1968 struck millions of Italian workers took to the streets. But unlike France, where May ‘68 would prove to be the high watermark of the left, ‘68 in Italy was just the beginning.

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4. The Italian police murdered striking workers, the workers responded with more strikes and continued to fight the police in the streets. The unions planned a new offensive for 1969, but the planned strikes were limited and the long suffering

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5. Italian proletariat had had enough. They escalated planned strikes, brought more of their fellow workers off of the production line, and began to throw out their appointed union representatives. Hundreds of thousands of workers formed mass

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6. workers assemblies to collectively decide on their course of action and maintain the struggle. These assemblies were joined by a newly militant Italian student movement, who also joined the workers in the streets. But again unlike May ‘68 in

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7. France, where the divide between students and workers would tear the movement apart, the Italian student movement would continue to work closely with the workers movement for decades. The ideology of this movement was called operaismo, or

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8. workerism, the original branch of the broader autonomist movement. Workerist theorists, following the work of CLR James and the John Walker Forest tendency (and to some extent Engels himself) embedded themselves in the factories and developed

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9. their theories from the shop floor itself, painstakingly documenting the daily life of the working class and constructing their their theory around it. They came to see the working class itself, and not the institutions around it, as the engine

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10. of class struggle that generated history and the composition of class and capitalism itself around it. These activists were vital to the organization of the mass workers assemblies and helped push the Italian

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11. proletariat into further militancy. A massive general strike called by the unions over rent increases saw the development of the famous slogan of the Hot Autumn.Against the predetermined union slogan of “stop the rent increases” Italian

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12. workers chanted “We Want Everything” as millions of workers took to the streets. The unions, terrified that they’d lost control of the Italian working class, actually tried to suppress the strikes but were at least initially unsuccessful.

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13. The strikes continued into 1970 but eventually began to lose steam as the unions and various leftist parties were able to regain control and the Italian state pursued the strategy of tension and carried out bombings and mass arrests to

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14. suppress the movement. But importantly to this story the Italian autonomists, and the slogan We Want everything, would become a core part of the modern anarchist movement in both Europe and the United States, as would Nanni Balestrini's

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15. classic novel We Want Everything. Their influence remains with us to this day. German autonomists for example, deeply connected to the ideologies that spread the Hot Autumn, were instrumental in developing many of the black bloc tactics

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16. used today to fight the police in the US. American anti-WTO and IMF protesters likewise were deeply connected to the Italian autonomists to the point where David Graeber, probably the best known American anarchist, was in a group called Ya

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17. Basta, named after and adopting the tactics of an identically named group of autonomists in Italy. And their influence is not just limited to the US and Europe. Argentinian autonomists played a vital role in the 2001 riots against austerity

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18. that saw another wave of factory occupations and fighting with police that brought down 5 successive governments and ended with Argentia telling the IMF to fuck off and defaulting on its debts, rejecting its austerity measures.

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