FdCA Timeline
The history of the Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici throughout the years: its congresses, meetings and activities

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1980 1981 1982

 

Nocera Inferiore (Campania), 10 January: 4th Council of Delegates of the Organizzazione Rivoluzionaria Anarchica (ORA)

ORA branch premises

 
  • The Campanian branches of the ORA leave in order to join the Italian Anarchist Party (Partito Anarchico Italiano - PAI)
  • The Cremona Gruppo Comunista Anarchico (Anarchist Communist Group) joins the ORA
  • Preparation for the 5th Congress.
 

Bari (Apulia), 17-18 January: 2nd Congress of the Bari ORA branch

 
  • Political work
  • Press & propaganda
  • Local and national situation.
 

Cremona (Lombardy), 18 January: Meeting between the Labour Commissions of the ORA and the Unione dei Comunisti Anarchici Toscani (UCAT)

 
  • Publication of 3 issues of an anarchist communist labour bulletin for the setting up of a coalition of anarchist communist workers
  • Opening the debate on analysis of the economic phase and organizational dualism.
 

Genoa-Pegli (Liguria), 7 February: Meeting between the editorial group of the "Solidarietà Operaia" (Worker Solidarity) magazine and the ORA

 
  • Debate on the political path of the ORA and the Ligurian comrades
  • ORA support for the magazine.
 

Suzzara (Lombardy), 14 February: 5th Council of Delegates of the ORA

ORA branch premises, Via Curtatone e Montanara

 
  • National reports
  • Branch activities
  • Debate on political strategy
  • Experimental publication in Bari of the anarchist communist paper "Il Punto" (The Tip).
 

Florence, 7 March: Meeting between the UCAT and the ORA

 
Comparison of positions on analysis of the economic phase and on organizational dualism.
 

Bari (Apulia), 7 March: Provincial workshop of ORA branches

 
  • Re-launching the Altamura branch
  • Local and nationwide intervention.
 

Florence, 28-29 March: 4th Congress of the UCAT

 
  • Membership
  • Branches
  • National strategy
  • Press.
 

Bari (Apulia), 11-12 April: 3rd Congress of the Bari ORA branch

 
  • Political and social intervention
  • Support for Democrazia Proletaria's referendum on index-linked wages
  • Editing the magazine "Il Punto".
 

Cremona (Lombardy), 12 April: 1st Congress of the ORA's Provincial Federation of Cremona

 
  • Analysis of the current political and labour situation
  • Political and social intervention
  • Internal education
  • Greetings sent by  the Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia (National Partisan's Association of Italy - ANPI, the Partito di Unità Proletaria-Movimento Lavoratori per il Socialismo (Proletarian Unity Party-Workers for Socialism Movement - PdUP-MLS), the Partito Comunista Italiana (Italian Communist Party -  PCI), the Partito Radicale (Radical Party).
 

Cremona (Lombardy), 25 April: 6th Council of Delegates of the ORA

ORA branch premises, Via Massarotti, 44/b

 
  • Branch activity
  • "Il punto della lotta di classe" (The Tip of the Class Struggle) as national ORA newspaper
  • The referendum called by the Radical Party and Democrazia Proletaria (Proletarian Democracy - DP)
  • Local elections to be held on 21st June.
 

Cremona (Lombardy), 26 April: 1st Pre-Congress Convention of the ORA (northern Italy area)

 
  • The state of the organization
  • Areas to be dealt with at the Congress.
 

National referenda, 17 May: For the repeal of Law 194 on abortion (requested by Democrazia Cristiana and the Vatican) and other questions (requested by the Partito Radicale)

 

The ORA invites a NO vote on the repeal of Law 194 regarding abortion and a YES vote to repeal certain laws on some other questions such as the repressive Cossiga Law and the law on life sentences.
 

Genoa (Liguria), 23-24 May: National Assembly of Workers, Delegates and Grassroots Bodies

 
Organized by the Genoan magazine "Solidarietà Operaia". The ORA participates at the event.
 

Suzzara (Lombardy), 20 June: Meeting between the ORA and the UCAT

 
  • Labour bulletin
  • Relations with the PAI
  • Debate on analysis of the economic phase
  • Organizational dualism.
 

Bari (Apulia), 27 June: 7th Council of Delegates of the ORA

ORA branch premises, Via Nicolai, 57

 
  • National reports
  • Branch activities
  • Press
  • Evaluation of the results of the referenda and the local elections.
 

Bari (Apulia), 28 June: 2nd Pre-Congress Convention of the ORA (southern Italy area)

 
  • Political strategy for Southern Italy
  • The organization's newspaper
  • Areas to be dealt with at the Congress.
 

Cremona (Lombardy), 1 September: Meeting between local ORA federations and the PdUP

 
  • The role of the left in Cremona
  • Possible forms of cooperation.
 

Genoa (Liguria), 26 September: Meeting between libertarian communist groups from the Genoa-Savona-Imperia area and the ORA

 
  • The current state of the anarchist movement
  • The role of the Unione Sindacale Italiana (USI)
  • Debate on political intervention
  • Organizational dualism
  • Proposal for the involvement of Ligurian comrades in the national anarchist communist network and the anarchist communist workers' coalition.
 

Modena (Emilia Romagna), 4 October: Anarchist Convention on CGIL Congress documents

 
The convention is called by the PAI. The Organizzazione Comunista Libertaria (Libertarian Communist Organization) of Livorno, the UCAT and the ORA also participate. Comparison of positions on the documents passed by the CGIL's 10th Congress.
 

Suzzara (Lombardy), 10 October: 8th Council of Delegates of the ORA

ORA branch premises, Via Curtatone e Montanara

 
  • National reports
  • Branch activities
  • Press & propaganda
  • National Congress.
 

Suzzara (Lombardy), 17 October: Meeting between the ORA and the UCAT

 
  • Organization of labour conventions
  • Debate on analysis of the economic phase
  • Organizational dualism.
 

Spezzano Albanese (Calabria), 17-18 October: 4th Central-Southern Italy Anarchist Convention

 
Organized by the local Gruppo Comunista Anarchico (Anarchist Communist Group). The ORA participates in the event.
 

Paris (France), 30 October: Meeting between the Union des Travailleurs Communistes Libertaires (Union of Libertarian Communist Workers - UTCL) and the ORA

 
  • Current state of the Italian and French anarchist movement and the role of the two organizations
  • Bilateral relations
  • The current situation in Europe.
 

Modena (Emilia-Romagna), 1 November: National Assembly of Anarchist Workers in the CGIL

 
The event sees the participation of union activists and anarchist workers who are members of the CGIL. The aim is to coordinate action in view of the CGIL's upcoming 10th Congress.
 

Cremona (Lombardy), 5-6-7 December: 5th National Congress of the Organizzazione Rivoluzionaria Anarchica (ORA)

Sala Consiglio di Quartiere San Pietro

 
  • “Political Strategy for the work of anarchist communists in labour unions and in the community”
  • “Re-launching the building of a national anarchist communist organization”
  • The newspaper “Il punto della lotta di classe” becomes the official organ of the ORA.
  • Members and branches in the regions of Apulia, Lombardy, Marches and Emilia.
  • Presence of delegates from all those anarchist communist organizations that supported the proposal for a National Network of Anarchist Communists.