The Magneti Marelli Workers Committee - The “Red Guard” Tells Its Story (Milan, 1975-78)

Introduction to the English edition
A final postscript
Preface to the French edition
Introduction by the author

CHAPTER ONE Magneti Marelli
Creation
Between the World Wars
From World War II to the mid-eighties

CHAPTER TWO
Struggles in the factory, 1945-1972
Employment and the evolution of worker composition
Labour conflict at Magneti Marelli Crescenzago
a) From the end of World War II to 1968
b) The period between 1968 and 1972
c) After 1972

CHAPTER THREE
The Story of the Workers’ Committee
Piece work
Egalitarianism
The workforce
The Workers Committee and Senza tregua
Corporate restructuring
“Drive the delegates out of the ‘bosses’ palace’!”
The “April Days”
The struggle spreads to other workplaces
Political layoffs
The expulsion
The verdict of 15 July
Repression and restructuring
Birth of the Autonomous Workers Coordination of Milan
“Against the union-government-Confindustria social pact”
The end of the movement