Potere Operaio [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Potere Operaio
Potere Operaio ("Workers' Power") was a radical left-wing Italian political group, active between 1967 and 1973. (It shouldn't be confused with "Potere Operaio Pisano" which was one of the components of a competing revolutionary group, Lotta Continua.) Among the group's leaders were Antonio ('Toni') Negri, Nanni Balestrini, Franco Piperno, Oreste Scalzone and Valerio Morucci, who led its clandestine armed wing. It was part of the "workerist" movement ("
Brigades (speaking of "phantom" Red Brigades), emphasizing instead that of neo-fascist groups.
The year before, "Potere Operaio" had disbanded, although "Autonomia Operaia" carried on in its wake. "Lotta Continua" also dissolved in 1976, although their magazine struggled on for several years. From the remnants of "Lotta Continua" and similar groups, the terror organization "Prima Linea" emerged.
Chronology 1975.
On 28 February, student and right activist Mikis Mantakas was killed by far