Barracks anarchists
The Barracks anarchists (Italian: Anarchici della Baracca) were a group of five young adults who lost their lives in a car accident on the night of 26 September 1970, while they were on their way to Rome. They intended to deliver to their contacts denunciation material concerning the Gioia Tauro massacre, which took place on 22 July 1970, and the contextual events of the Reggio revolt. The name derives from the Liberty villa, near Reggio Calabria, where young anarchists used to meet, the so-called "Baracca". The building was built as emergency accommodation after the 1908 Messina earthquake and became a meeting place for the Reggio alternative movement in the 1960s.
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