Giuseppe "Pino" Pinelli (1928 - 1969) was an Italian railroad worker and anarchist who fell to his death on this day in 1969 while being detained by Italian police. His death became the subject of the play "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" by Dario Fo.

Pinelli was a member of the Milan-based anarchist association named "Ponte della Ghisolfa", and was also the secretary of the Italian branch of the Anarchist Black Cross. He organized young anarchists in the "Gioventu Libertaria" (Libertarian Youth) in 1962 and helped found the "Sacco and Vanzetti anarchist association" in 1965.

A few days before Pinelli's death, Italian fascists from the "Ordine Nuovo" orchestrated a bombing campaign in Milan; one bomb in Piazza Fontana killed 17 people and injured 88. The bombing was blamed on Italian anarchists, and Pinelli was detained along with many other leftists, including Pietro Valpreda, who was falsely convicted and served eighteen years in prison.

Just before midnight on December 15th, 1969, Pinelli fell to his death from a fourth floor window of the Milan police station. Three police officers interrogating Pinelli, including Commissioner Luigi Calabresi, were put under investigation in 1971 for his death, but legal proceedings concluded it was due to accidental causes.

Calabresi was later gunned down at his home in 1972, for which left-wing journalist Adriano Sofri was convicted in 1997.

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  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    2 days ago

    People who have read Harry potter, why did the wizards even need slave elves anyway? They can just kinda use magic to do any labor effortlessly

    • Blakey [he/him]
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      2 days ago

      Saw an interesting take on this recently. Rowling decided it would be great to have her hero emancipate a slave, but she's so dedicated to neoliberalism that literally any systemic change - even ending the slavery of imaginary beings in her pretend universe - is unthinkable. So we end up with "uh actually they just like being slaves, it's part of their nature". But because she's completely invested in white supremacy and neoliberalism she can't even see how fucked up that is.

    • Barabas [he/him]
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      2 days ago

      The slave elves like being slaves, apart from Dobby.

      I also assume it takes at least some amount of concentration to use magic to wash dishes, cook food, clean etc.

    • buckykat [none/use name]
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      2 days ago

      Jowling just really likes slavery and thoughtlessly replicating every aspect of br*tish class society

    • hello_hello [comrade/them]
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      2 days ago

      Because it's commentary on how despite how technologically developed imperial core nations are they still depend on the exploited labor of "lesser races" to maintain control. Magic could liberate the world but it's gatekept to those who can attend elite schools and pass high stakes tests. The main conflict is just imperial core infighting on who gets to steer the ship but this time the core is just a select society of humans with genetic superpowers who don't want to share.

      Rowling just never wrote the payoff because after the second book she became part of the billionaire celebrity class and had to unlearn class solidarity.

      Note: I made this shit up made-it-the-fuck-up

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      2 days ago

      I would say "to make food" but there's a part in the earlier books where somebody just shoots various kinds of sauce out of their wand so who even knows what the rules are