The Piazza Fontana bombing, which took place in Milan on 12 December 1969, represents a wound that remains open in Italy’s history. A chapter closely linked to a disturbing behind-the-scenes web of political and economic-financial manoeuvre. A question to which the author responds, drawing on unpublished sources and interviews, by putting forward the thesis that this attack can be regarded as a ‘rural strand’ woven into the fabric of the ‘strategy of tension’, spanning politics and finance. They decided to choose that particular credit institution from among so many others (to the BNL and the Banca Commerciale), because it was both a symbol and a reality of a rural world in crisis, of an Italy undergoing profound social upheaval and at the mercy of global finance, intent on taking over companies¬, banks and parts of the Italian market, in the midst of a veritable flight of capital abroad. Involving a rather unsettling figure, Michele Sindona, who, along with other British and American financial groups, had a stake in the Banca Nazionale dell’Agricoltura and was fiercely opposed by the Banca d’Italia and Mediobanca, led by Enrico Cuccia. A shareholding battle for control of that institution broke out well before that terrible 12 December, on both a national and international scale. It directly affected the representatives of that wounded world, such as Coldiretti and Confagricoltura, along with key organisations such as Federconsorzi, which were urged to shift to the right. An economic and financial war that became intertwined with the political crisis, fuelling the subversive manoeuvres underway in the country aimed at forming an authoritarian right-wing government. A scenario averted only thanks to the mobilisation of the political parties and trade unions in defence of republican democracy.
La strage di piazza Fontana, avvenuta a Milano il 12 dicembre 1969, rappresen¬ta una ferita ancora aperta nella storia d’Italia. Una pagina strettamente legata a un inquietante dietro le quinte fatto di manovre politiche ed economico-finan¬ziarie, prima e dopo quella data spartiac¬que. Se molte sono state le interpretazio¬ni storiche e giudiziarie su quanto avven¬ne quel triste pomeriggio, in pochi si so¬no posti la domanda da cui parte questo libro: perché proprio la Banca nazionale dell’Agricoltura? Un quesito cui l’autore risponde, sulla base di fonti inedite e di interviste, avan¬zando la tesi che quell’attentato possa es¬sere considerato una «gamba rurale» dei tessitori della strategia della tensione, fra politica e finanza. Che decisero di sceglie¬re quell’istituto di credito fra tanti (insie¬me alla Bnl e alla Banca commerciale), per¬ché simbolo e realtà di un mondo rurale in crisi, di un’Italia attraversata da profondi sommovimenti sociali e in balia della fi¬nanza globale, intenta a conquistare azien¬de, banche, pezzi di mercato italiano, nel pieno di una vera e propria fuga dei capi¬tali all’estero. Con un inquietante perso¬naggio, Michele Sindona, interessato in¬sieme ad altri gruppi finanziari inglesi e americani alla Banca nazionale dell’agri¬coltura e duramente osteggiato dalla Ban¬ca d’Italia e da Mediobanca, guidata da Enrico Cuccia. Una guerra azionaria per il controllo di quell’istituto scoppiata ben prima di quel terribile 12 dicembre, fra di¬mensione nazionale e internazionale. Che toccò da vicino le rappresentanze di quel mondo ferito, quali la Coldiretti e la Con¬fagricoltura, insieme ad organizzazioni pure centrali, come la Federconsorzi, invi¬tate a svoltare a destra. Una guerra econo¬mico-finanziaria che s’intrecciò alla crisi politica, alimentando le manovre eversive in atto nel paese per la formazione di un governo autoritario di destra. Uno scena¬rio scongiurato solo grazie alla mobilita¬zione dei partiti e dei sindacati in difesa della democrazia repubblicana.
Orrenda strage a Milano. Piazza Fontana, la questione agraria, la finanza globale / Bernardi, E.. - (2025), pp. 1-185.
Orrenda strage a Milano. Piazza Fontana, la questione agraria, la finanza globale
Bernardi, Emanuele
2025
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The Piazza Fontana bombing, which took place in Milan on 12 December 1969, represents a wound that remains open in Italy’s history. A chapter closely linked to a disturbing behind-the-scenes web of political and economic-financial manoeuvre. A question to which the author responds, drawing on unpublished sources and interviews, by putting forward the thesis that this attack can be regarded as a ‘rural strand’ woven into the fabric of the ‘strategy of tension’, spanning politics and finance. They decided to choose that particular credit institution from among so many others (to the BNL and the Banca Commerciale), because it was both a symbol and a reality of a rural world in crisis, of an Italy undergoing profound social upheaval and at the mercy of global finance, intent on taking over companies¬, banks and parts of the Italian market, in the midst of a veritable flight of capital abroad. Involving a rather unsettling figure, Michele Sindona, who, along with other British and American financial groups, had a stake in the Banca Nazionale dell’Agricoltura and was fiercely opposed by the Banca d’Italia and Mediobanca, led by Enrico Cuccia. A shareholding battle for control of that institution broke out well before that terrible 12 December, on both a national and international scale. It directly affected the representatives of that wounded world, such as Coldiretti and Confagricoltura, along with key organisations such as Federconsorzi, which were urged to shift to the right. An economic and financial war that became intertwined with the political crisis, fuelling the subversive manoeuvres underway in the country aimed at forming an authoritarian right-wing government. A scenario averted only thanks to the mobilisation of the political parties and trade unions in defence of republican democracy.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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