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Chicco Galmozzi talks about his time as a militant factory worker in Milan in the late 1960s and 1970s. He describes the changing composition and political attitudes within the work force and the establishment of committees that organised independently from mainstream unions. The factory-based struggle entered the neighbourhoods in form of housing occupations and antifascist self-defence.

We hear about the reasons for him and his comrades leaving Lotta Continua, one of the main extra-parliamentarian organisations in the 1970s, and to focus on proletarian direct actions as part of the wider workers' autonomy.

A review of his book 'Figli dell’officina' can be found here.

Galmozzi's historic experiences also cover the period and places that we explore in our upcoming documentary 'Every Acre, Every Factory', check out the trailer here.