Communist Combatant Units
| Communist Combatant Units | |
|---|---|
| Unità Comuniste Combattenti | |
| Leaders | Paolo Bonano, Stefano Neri |
| Dates of operation | 1976–1977 |
| Active regions | Italy |
| Political position | far left |
| Allies | Communist parties |
The Communist Combatant Units (Unità Comuniste Combattenti, UCC) was an Italian terrorist group committed to far left. It was formed in 1976 between Lazio, Tuscany and Lombardy after a split of the Communist Armed Formations and the joining of veterans from experiences among the extra-parliamentary left. Its members were mostly students, professionals and employees while the acknowledged leaders were Paolo Bonano,[1] Stefano Neri and Romano Bandoli.[2]
Ideals and actions
[edit]UCC was dedicated to attacks against small and medium enterprises (considered as guilty also for the unreported employment), against those who were considered as means of oppression of capital on work. UCC had a particular attention of the problems related to factories of Southern Italy and the struggle against the calculation instruments.[3]
The most notable actions were the injuring of the general director Vittorio Morgera of Poligrafico dello Stato[4][5][6] and the raid on the headquarter of Florence of the Associazione delle Piccole e Medie Industrie,[5] both occurred on 29 March 1977. Other notable raids were those in the Calculation Center of Sapienza University of Rome, in the Intersind headquarter of Palermo,[6] in the offices of Tecnotessille in Prato[7] and in the Datamont calculation center of Montedison in Milan.[4][6]
In 1977, the group was dissolved and some members joined Prima Linea.
In July 1977, the police forces discovered a refuge in the countryside near Vescovio (located in Torri in Sabina, Rieti) where UCCs stored weapons and imprisoned kidnapped people.[8][6] In June 1984, the Assize Court of Appeal of Rome issued 26 sentences against the UCCs, with a period of reclusion between 2 and 31 years.[8]
UCC had been active in Calabria, Campania, Lazio, Lombardy, Piedmont, Tuscany and Sicily while 102 people had been investigated by the Italian judiciary.[9]
See also
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Notes
[edit]- ^ "Roma, al processo contro le UCC un altro pentito scagiona Leoni". la Repubblica (in Italian). 17 May 1984. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ "Ventisette accuse per Bandoli e Neri arrestati nel covo di via della Rosa" (PDF). l'Unità (in Italian). 12 November 1978. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ "Anni di piombo tra utopie e speranze". Circolo Culturale L'Agorà (in Italian). 14 June 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ a b Galli, Giorgio (27 September 2013). Piombo rosso. Baldini & Castoldi. ISBN 9788868651169.
- ^ a b Various Authors (1992). Venti anni di violenza politica in Italia 1969–1988. Vol. 1, 2nd part. Rome: Ricerca Isodarco – Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza". Archived from the original on 14 October 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ a b c d Camera dei Deputati, Senato della Repubblica (1994). "Commissione parlamentare d'inchiesta sulla strage di via Fani, sul sequestro e l'assassinio di Aldo Moro e sul terrorismo in Italia" (PDF). Atti giudiziari (in Italian). 92 – via Senato della Repubblica.
- ^ Toccafondi, Paolo (11 February 2018). "Quarant'anni fa l'omicidio Spighi: così Prato scoprì gli Anni di piombo". Il Tirreno (in Italian). Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ a b "Pene piu' miti per le UCC". la Repubblica (in Italian). 30 June 1984. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ Gabanelli, Milena (6 May 2018). "Dove sono oggi i terroristi degli anni di piombo?". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 23 August 2019.