LEI (She) by Banda POPolare Dell'Emilia Rossa (POPular Band of Red Emilia) and Modena City Ramblers is an italian trotskyist song written to pay respects to Georges Moustaki.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Dw...
Sette Anni Fa is a song about the first fascist government after the Second World War. It was 1970, and the Christian Democrats decided to ally themselves with the Italian Social Movement to form the Tambroni government. youtu.be/WqIeUujts4k
I Grandi Magazzini was recorded after the union had erected a tin-roofed shack in Piazza Maggiore throughout the fall of '69 to symbolize the crisis facing many factories in Bologna that were beginning to fire workers.The workers on strike wrote the lyrics
youtu.be/XuaaNz2SB4Y
I Borghesi (The Bourgeois, originally Les Bourgeois) is an italian translation and re-imagining of the satirical anti-Bourgeois song "Les Bourgeois" by Jacques Brel.
youtu.be/lbd7fasH-Qw
Happy april 1st
Il 18 Aprile (April 18th) is a Communist song written in occasion of the first post war elections of April 18th 1948 in favour of the United Front of the Italian Socialist Party and Italian Communist Party.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=liZd...
La Leggera is a song about the train that at the beginning of the century used to carry seasonal workers across the entire region to Maremma. This train was called The Light One, a mocking term used to indicate the poorest workers who travelled “lightly”.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmBy...
The fact that a lot of factories in Italy had legally recognized factory councils up until the late 1980s is so crazy to me. I can't stop thinking about how close we were to an actual revolution and how conscious the italian proletariat actually was.
Vecchi Compagni / Old Comrades by Vecchio Gek, 2006
is a leftcommunist song about nostalgia and hope for revolution.
I'm sorry for both the low audio and the picture quality but it's not easy to find stuff like this at high quality.
youtu.be/ilfrKVrUWko
Otto Marzo (March 8th) by Movimento Femminista Romano (Rome's Feminist Movement) (1976) is a song about the true meaning behind March 8th: revolution.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=60rv...
Vogliamo La Pelle dei Fascisti (We Want the skin of the fascists) also known as "After three days of paved road), anonymous (1944) was the unofficial anthem of the 28th Garibladi Brigade, a partisan group from Ravenna.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R3c...
Italy is not a real country
Nella testa di Nicola is a song about the situation of the Italian Communist movement and how it fails to unite and achieve anything while the Italian state murders communist activists. Such as Salterelli, an italian leftcommunist murdered by the police. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXnZ...
Happy Valentine's day everyone. This song is for everyone: staunch single revolutionaries and firey revolutionary lovers. It works for everyone
Amore Ribelle, by Pietro Gori
youtu.be/AlQDTJUjyUU
Finished translating a song for Valentine's day, it's an italian anarchist written by Pietro Gori.
Movie: Novecento, 1976
Chi ha portato quei fiori per Mara Cagol? (Who Brought Those Flowers for Mara Cagol?) by Yo Yo Mundi (1996) is a song about the killing of the founder of the Red Brigades: Mara Cagol. She died in a police shootout on June 6, 1975.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG62...
"Se l'Italia fosse" is an Italian communist song that celebrates the two "Red Regions" governed by communists for 40 years, while also denouncing the exploitation of the South.
Tomorrow is my birthday, so I get to choose the song.
youtu.be/pkgcRbyudIU
Amazing things are happening in Italian Television. (I 100% agree with Odifreddi btw)
Rifondazione Comunista won the poll, I will contact them in March to schedule for an interview.
Communist Refoundation is the spiritual successor of the PCI, it's an eurocommunist and reformist party
Submit your questions on my Discord server. Link: discord.com/invite/3QHgs2dueS
The Apartment is an Italian communist song making fun of the first article of the italian constitution: "Italy is a democratic Republic founded on labour". It also works as an anti-landlord song
youtu.be/L5QfVkJHQfY
Natale 68 - Christmas 1968 (1968 Aleardo Caliari, women on strike) was written during the strike of the workers of the Rinascente department store in Milan in 1968.
youtu.be/dgTuX3SIXhc
"How's the job market in Italy?"
"Pay 6000 € for an internship!"
"You died on the road to Communism,
killed by capitalists and by revisionism.
Comrade Saltarelli, we will avenge you;
we will hang every bureaucrats and every capitalist.
Bombs and reforms are the weapons of the capitalist;
our only weapon is revolution"
Who Killed Saltarelli? is a song about the homicide of Saverio Saltarelli, a member of the Internationalist Communist Party. He was shot and killed in 1970 by the police during a demonstration for the anniversary of the Fontana Square massacre.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc7H...
Rifondazione Comunista won the poll, I will contact them next year to schedule for an interview. RC is the spiritual successor of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), it's an eurocommunist and reformist party. Submit your questions on my discord: discord.com/invite/3QHgs...
Rice Weeders Against The Cavalry is a song about the agricultural strike of 1912. A strike to demand an 8 hour workday that was contested by the cavalry sent to break the strikes. In the end, they arrest strike leaders Maria Provera and Eugenio Riba
youtu.be/RJk2Ten5_zM
Currently writing a script for the first video from the serie "Revolutionary history through music" . The video will cover the period from 1880 to 1939. Here's the list of the songs that will be mentioned and that you will hear in the video (in order):
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Fascist terrorism in italy stopped because the fascists realised that they were being used by liberals.
Valerio Fioravanti disbanded the NAR by saying, quote "the armed struggle is over, it's just a trap". He confirmed that he was being used by the liberals during his trial
