"Detainees who climb on the roofs of their places of confinement to demand prison
reform and an improvement in their conditions of detention; then who finallydecide to fight to put an end to prison in a revolutionary perspective. ---- ElsaSantalena and Guillaume Guidon deal in this book with a little-known, ignoredpoint in the history of revolutionary movements in Italy in the 1970s: therelationship to the penal institution and the upheavals that will arise from thearrival in large numbers of political prisoners who, although locked up, do notintend to abandon the political struggle and make prison a space forpoliticization. The authors even defend the thesis of the centrality of prison inthese struggles against the state.The 1970s in Italy were years of massive revolt and protest which reached a pointof conflict without equal in Western Europe. These struggles ignited thefactories and the faculties but also the totalitarian institutions, such as thepsychiatric hospitals, the barracks and the prisons. A blind spot in worksdealing with this period, the authors shed new light on the prison questionthrough the prism of the revolutionary struggles that took place there over theperiod from 1969 (date of the mutiny at Le Nuove prison in Turin). in the late 1980s.The evolution, richly documented, of these struggles: from the improvement ofliving conditions to the establishment of a "second theater of conflict" betweenarmed groups and the State, goes in the direction of the thesis of the authors.es of a prison centrality. In the end, what will overcome the resistance ofpolitical prisoners has less to do with the (very real) intensity of the staterepression suffered than with the disintegration of the link between armed groupsand the population. The gradual end of the great political struggles, which alonecan establish a balance of power favorable to the revolutionaries, will deal afatal blow to the struggles within the penitentiary institution.A clear and easily accessible work for non-specialists, warmly recommended inthese times of increased repression of the social movement.David (UCL Chambery)Elsa Santalena, Guillaume Guidon, The Imprisoned Struggle. Repression, law andrevolution in 1970s Italy, Syllepse, 2023, 285 pages, 20 euroshttps://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Santanela-et-Guidon-La-lutte-emprisonnee-Repression-droit-et-revolution_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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