La FISBA-CISL negli anni 1950-1970: una politica per l'agricoltura

The author examines a series of documents written by the Agricultural Labourers’ Federation which was affiliated to CGIL, later CISL. In these documents, the agrarian and agricultural policies carried out by centrist and centre-left governments are critically analyzed. In particular, the author points out the limits of agrarian reforms and the “green plans”, by recalling the considerations raised by Amos Zanibelli, Giulio Pastore and Feliciano Benvenuti at that time. Paolo Sirtori is also mentioned, as he denounced the incapacity of politicians and leaders of the agricultural associations to understand the implications generated by the European agricultural policy which had been drafted by Sicco Mansholt in the memorandum he wrote in December 1968.