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Article Dans Une Revue Contemporary European History Année : 2023

‘Power is in the Streets’: Protest and Militancy in France, Italy and West Germany, 1968–1979

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This article explores cultures of militancy in public space among currents of the revolutionary left in France, Italy and West Germany during the ‘red decade’. It shows how radicals embraced convergent strategic perspectives, discourses on violence and insubordinate practices for confronting the police. However, patterns of militancy subsequently diverged along national lines in the face of different experiences of neo-fascist violence, domestic social conflict, and legacies of armed resistance and civil war. In particular, the relatively frequent use of lethal force by Italian police in defence of public order motivated a current of the Italian revolutionary left to endorse the use of firearms during protests. Across national experiences, domestic protest policing conditioned the use of force by protestors and the transformation – or not – of protestors into terrorists.
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hal-04682384 , version 1 (30-08-2024)

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Luca Provenzano. ‘Power is in the Streets’: Protest and Militancy in France, Italy and West Germany, 1968–1979. Contemporary European History, 2023, pp.1-18. ⟨10.1017/S096077732300022X⟩. ⟨hal-04682384⟩
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