ISSUE ELEVEN

A search for a new equilibrium. This is without doubt the dominant theme of the political moment that we are going through. Not only in Italy, but all over the world.
However, considering things from the point of view of our own reality we must say right away that this research is not only happening with the consultations on institutional reforms at various levels, not only with the roped climbers against the wild protests of a certain trade unionism of new coinage but also with a certain way of facing the problem of the past legislative and judicial emergency.
On various sides they are again taking up the question of amnesty, pardon and all the other judicial instruments that are capable of resolving the delicate situation in which we have come to find State institutions in the face of the phenomenon of armed struggle as this phenomenon has been developing over past years.
We do not know how things will turn out, sure that they had to be sorted out in one way or another. To be convinced of this are not only the dissociated old and new with all their more or less intelligent nuances, but also those who - like Piperno - are on the point of returning to Italy or have already done so.
The solution will, in the first place, be a useful fact in the prospects of new Italian political equilibrium. The State, especially in the face of a prospect of institutional and constitutional reshuffles, needs an old-style political “opposition” even stuffed with opportunely recycled unglorious signatures . From this “opposition” one could, as everyone understands, make the most opportune and optimal use as a lubricant to avoid the risky frictions of the past, i.e. greater unrest. Certainly, men have bargained with the State, even in “intelligent” terms, such as those who “suggest” that the State looks at its cards again and remedies the “wrongs” of the past to avoid a gloomy future of “useless” and bloody clashes, must necessarily be available for manipulation, to suitable use. We are not talking about a Curcio in parliament like Negri and perhaps worse than him. But we are talking of an opposition that is insinuating itself beyond the institutions (that’s a manner of speaking) recuperating the real dissent of the country that is precisely the greatest preoccupation of our governers at a time that is presenting itself as transitory, to go towards an institutional resystemisation. Think of the great importance of a fictitious opposition of the old stamp organised in the streets, supported by the official forces of the parties and of the left, or even by recycled organisations or those of a new stamp, to serve as a safety valve at a time when they finally want to gag the possibilities of strikes, spontaneous workers’ organisations, freedom of movement, of thought, meeting, etc. Because that is what we are talking about.
The State is prospecting a more adequate refoundation in the nineties, which will be years of struggle for the drastic restructuring of production on the basis of the post-industrial economy. In this perspective it could be very comfortable to have a fictitious opposition that pushes the great masses of the past in piazza, people with so many years’ prison to display as a guarantee and hazy ambivalent discourses to contraband as new horizons of revolutionary struggle.
The thing is not so strange. It is necessary to reflect on it. After all, in the perspective of State restructuring it is precisely the highly politicised minorities that scare, those who could constitute a point of reference, a potentially subversive struggle. And it would be difficult to control these minorities and repress them with the classical means (police, judiciary, etc.) that a democratic State has as its disposal. While they could easily fall into the arms of a fictitious orientation of opposition and, so doing, definitively disarm themselves.
That is why - and we remind all those who have not understood it yet - we have always been against all struggles for amnesty. That is why, once again, we are pointing out the dangers of a turning in the direction of “pardon”, legitimisation, or whatever more or less clean term they want to indicate the abandonment and renunciation of ideals and the practice of revolutionary struggle.

NUMBER ELEVEN

Celebration of a Massacre (PLP)
Ethopia Exports Beef
Ed Koch at the Stake: The Homeless Rebel
The “Last Mazurka” and the Parenthesis of “Corriere”
Editorial
No Expulsions, No Extraditions
Against the Persecution of a Comrade
Attacks in Corsica
Attacks in Bretagne
Solidarity with “Action Directe”/Trial
Lottery Rebibbia
Lesbians against the House of Lords
Revolt in Prison in Brasil
“AnNew Black Contestation
Racism in Direct on American TV
THE TYRANNY OF WEAKNESS AMB* (Insurrection)
Revolt in the Soviet Prisons
Thefts in soviet supermarkets
USSR: Sacked workers Struggle
Indians Rebel
How to Jinx Police
“Down with Work” “Disintegrate control” centre pages
The Anarchist Movement Must React
Attacks in Sardinia
What Pluralism?
Palermo - Counterinformation on the Walls
New Year in Germany
Inaugural Tee Shirt
Two Pylons sabotaged
Organised anarchism
A Letter
“Post Festum”
Communicato
Attack against Fininvest
Digos Raid Home of AMB
Bomb against Pretura
Solidarity With the Palestinians
On the Side of the Palestinians
Unexpected Explosion
Struggle Against apartheid is Struggle against Caopital and the State
Freedom For Roberto Gemignani
Night Creatures in Court
Fire to Building society
Enel Pylons Sawn Down at Caorso and Montalto
Proletarian Expropriation
Against an Army Barracks
Teacher Punished