The Italian radical left and the Arab-Israeli question (1969-1977)

This chapter will reconstruct how the Arab-Israeli question has been portrayed on the pages of newspapers and magazines of the Italian radical left between 1969 and 1977. In the 1970s, the Italian Radical left coincided with the extra-parliamentary left, operating and existing outside of the representative institutions of the State. Of the groups comprising it, this paper is primarily concerned with Lotta Continua (Continuous Struggle), Potere Operaio (Workers’ Power), and il Manifesto. These radical groups owned newspapers of their same name: “il manifesto” (issued monthly until 1969, and printed daily since the 28th of April 1971); “Lotta Continua” (issued weekly from the 1st of November 1969, then daily from the 11th of April 1972); and “Potere operaio” (founded in 1967, and active primarily between 1969 and 1972, with irregular publishing).