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'the last firebrands' refers to the heat waves of class struggles that swept across this industrial zone near Venice in the 1950s, 60s and 70s; struggles that characterised the area and left a lasting impact upon it.
Sometimes history takes a violent leap: in 1968 inexperienced peasants from the countryside were catapulted into the centre of the worldwide revolution. No working class had previously identified the factory as a trigger of fatal diseases and as a destroyer of life as clearly as they did in this struggle. The union expelled the organisers of the struggles. Those who were expelled found their own organisational forms. Porto Marghera's Autonomous Assembly in the early 1970s not only co-ordinated the struggles in the factories of the industrial zone, but also squatted houses, formed neighbourhood committees, organised price reductions in the supermarkets, and together with thousands of workers burned their electricity bills. The unions and the government could only react.
DVD, 52 minutes with a booklet in english on the subject edited by
Wildcat
Subtitles in German, English, French, Spanish, Romanian, Polish, Slovak, Serbian, Russian and Turkish.
special feature
Portrait of Augusto Finzi (26 min.)
Finzi was one of the protagonists of the struggles at the petrochemical factory. Shortly before his death he takes stock of his political activities in a very personal way.
German and English subtitles
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