Pasquale Palmieri's Book on Italy's 1977 Movement Reviewed on Doppiozero

A review published on Doppiozero on 13 October 2026 examines Pasquale Palmieri's book on Italy's 1977 movement, arguing that the disputes of that year remain unresolved. The review, titled "Il 1977 non finisce mai" and written by Enrico Palandri and Anita Romanello, contends that approaching 1977 is difficult because many of the accounts it left open are still on the table today. It draws a parallel between the US-Russia conflict, played out through third countries and shaping those countries' domestic politics, and the divide between the guaranteed and the unguaranteed — between a social group protected by permanent employment and a large reserve of precarious workers, from tomato fields to universities. That divide, the reviewers write, sometimes renders obsolete the traditional negotiation between capital and labour that was the role of trade unionism. Palmieri's volume, "1977, L'Italia leggera nell'anno del movimento," published by Il mulino with 228 pages, is presented as a useful contribution to detaching the endless discussion of those years from the label "Anni di piombo." The review notes that the book reads quickly, that Palmieri is always very clear, and that he writes with lightness.