Lotta Continua (LC; English: Continuous Struggle) was a far-left militant organization in Italy, during the historical period of social turmoil and political violence in the country known as the "Years of Lead".

Its influence was greatest among recently immigrated, young, unqualified workers in large factories, while the "traditional" working class kept its allegiance to the Italian Communist Party and the trade union movement.

[1] The group's leadership included Adriano Sofri, Mauro Rostagno, Guido Viale, Giorgio Pietrostefani, Erri De Luca, Paolo Brogi and Marco Boato.

Since Italian law required that every newspaper needed a professional journalist to act as its managing editor, for some time Pier Paolo Pasolini lent his name in order to allow Lotta Continua's publication.

Adriano Sofri and Giorgio Pietrostefani, former leaders of Lotta Continua, were condemned to long prison sentences for organizing the murder, and Ovidio Bompressi and Leonardo Marino for carrying it out.

[4] On 1 October 1977, during a protest march in Turin, following the murderer of LC militant Walter Rossi, in Rome, by neo-fascists activists, a bar was attacked by means of Molotov cocktails.