California Italian Studies

The article is a reflection on the genealogy of the organizations of the Italian revolutionary left of the 1970s and on the relationship of this multifaceted topic within the context of "Sixty-eight", understood not so much as "the long sixty-eight", but rather as a student and youth protest in the phase of welding with other forms of social and political antagonism (that is the period from 1967 to 1969, with its antecedents and aftermath). The aim is to understand whether there is a “parental relationship” between the far-left and 1968 and, if so, what kind of bond might be conceivable. Are we facing a revolutionary left of the seventies born from the student and workers movements of the sixties, or is this event-process, instead, a consequence of the diffusion of the political culture of the revolutionary left in the previous decade?