Film Screening this Sunday- Bombs, Blood, Capital
nn - 21.04.2010 12:21
Presentation of the film "Bombe, Sangue, Capitale" by the film's producer and distributor. The Film is in Italian, with English subtitles. Its main topic, the bombings of Piazza Fontana in 1969, is just the frame in which this documentary explores topics regarding state repression, armed struggle, reformism and anarchist role in worker's movement.
The screening will be followed by an opportunity to talk and ask questions to the producer, who is interested in discussing parallels of analysis and situations connecting past struggles with what we can learn in present ones.
The organization for this screening was only possible on such a short notice, therefore, we are finalizing and waiting confirmation on a few options in regards to the location and the exact time. Sorry!
The only part of the program that is for sure is that it's going to take place in Amsterdam on the evening of April 25th,2010.
Look out for flyers and a confirmation post in the next days.
Synopsis
Bombs Blood and Capital
An overview and critical analysis of the movement in Italy, which erupted after the piazza Fontana bombings and the police murder of comrade Pinelli, in Milan December 1969.
The state's repression in the following years is known as of the strategy of tension, aimed to slow down and tear apart the momentum of the worker's movement. This was because the resistance was expressed with a wave of wild strikes (not supported by the unions), which often turned into uncontrollable and unpredictable street riots.
The worker's wrath, although at times dormant, was not completely repressed ‘til the end of the 70's.
Within a general overview, the opposition parties of the left, including all unions and parts of the extra-parliamentary fractions (Lotta continua, Potere Operaio, etc.) chose the direction of democratic platforms and political participation.
Other groups, however, with complete refusal of the state and democracy, chose more radical forms of struggle, which included critiques on daily life and practice in armed struggle (the famous years of lead).
In its core, this film explores an analysis of those years, from radical critique to armed struggle, the emergence of which was a significant and highly contentious debate at the time that is still a very relevant and important topic in today’s methods of struggle.
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