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Guns and Gray Matter: Terrorism in Italy

Alberto Ronchey
Spring 1979
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The terrorism that is now endemic in Italy evolved gradually, from the ideological extremism of the revolutionary generation of 1968, through the "hot autumn" of labor unrest in the Turin-Milan-Genoa industrial triangle, through the first guerrilla skirmishes in the "piazzas," to the ambushes that, beginning in the middle of the 1970s, marked the birth of a new category of citizens who walk on crutches.

Alberto Ronchey is a political columnist for Corriere della Sera (Milan) and the author of Accadde in Italia (1968-1977). This article is adapted from his Libro bianco sull'Ultima Generazione, Milan: Garzanti, 1978. Copyright (c) Alberto Ronchey.

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