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 The confrontation with the technical violence of MTM also led the Leboline to become an incredibly active force in the political struggles of the 1960s and 1970s in Italy. They not only rejected the new technical violence of the method, insisting on slower rhythms and more frequent breaks, they also fought with (and within) workers' unions and communist party for the recognition of their specific labour as women, engaging in battles for municipal kindergartens, for instance. 
 
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 At the beginning of the 1960s, as political organizing was forbidden during working hours, the Leboline begun their political organizing as they could, invented a number of cunning ways to coordinate amongst themselves, in via endless word of mouth outside the factory gates, on the bus to work, and during the very few moments of rest. Crucially, important messages were communicated in a relay during bathroom visits, a practice named "Radio Gabinetto" (Radio Toilet). They also revamped the use of the contrafacta technique, modifying the lyrics of traditional but also popular hit songs of the time  to convey their political messages while singing at work and at the rallies. 
 
 By developing in their own form of musical production, Lebole's workers intervened into the maddening rhythms that marked their experience in the factory, to compose other, more poetic, playful, counter-hegemonic rhythms and political horizons, as well as to "compose" themselves as an iconic posse within the political struggles that marked the Italian "long 1968".