1968 events in Italy

1968 events in Italy
Part of Protests of 1968
Date 1968
Location Italy
Causes Generation gap
Result Continued political unrest

The '68 movement in Italy was inspired by distaste for traditional Italian society and international protests. In May 1968 all universities, except Bocconi, were occupied. In the same month a hundred artists, including Gio Pomodoro , Arnaldo Pomodoro, Ernesto Treccani and Gianni Dova occupy for 15 days the Palazzo della Triennale.[1]

Movement '68

Students of working or peasant backgrounds mainly drove the movement in an effort to change traditional capitalist and patriarchal society. The new education system allowed for a large populous to be educated and with such an education, question societal functions.[2] The unrest began in student protest which were initially underestimated by politicians and the press, this soon turned to the struggle of workers.[3]

In the first moments of the student protest, the right-wing in the universities are among the movement's leaders. The Battle of Valle Giulia at Rome University on 1 March 1968 will be the last action in which students left and right-wing will be together, because on March 16 following the assault on the University La Sapienza, there will be a gap between "movementists" and reactionaries.[4] The left comes to dominate the movement and the right-wing debates on what actions should be used to further their movement.[5]

Aftermath

The counter-cultural attitudes of the movement end up creating conflicts within the Italian Left.[6] The movement did bring a form of solidarity among the youth and a new politicized generation was created.[7] There is debate about when and how a new political generation formed. Was there even a non-political previous generation at all?.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ cfr. pag. 67 di Almanacco di Storia illustrata, 1968
  2. ↑ Marino, Giuseppe. "ITALY: “WE DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE”" (PDF). www.ghi-dc.org. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  3. ↑ Nicola Rao, La fiamma e la celtica, Sperling & Kupfer Editori, 2006
  4. ↑ Nicola Rao, La fiamma e la celtica, Sperling & Kupfer Editori, 2006
  5. ↑ annipiombo07
  6. ↑ Vi è poi chi ha ritenuto di leggervi anche una valenza contestatrice nei gruppi di destra verso il MSI-DN: Giorgia Meloni, Il Sessantotto visto da destra (L’Occidentale, 25 novembre 2007).
  7. ↑ Giampiero Mughini, Il grande disordine, 1998, Mondadori.
  8. ↑ Luca Codignola, Il Sessantotto fu una rivolta generazionale ma fino ad un certo punto (L'Occidentale, 9 dicembre 2007).
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