Cox 18 was squatted in 1976 as the Conchetta self-managed social centre, at via Conchetta 18 in the Ticinese district of Milan in Italy. The squatters were anarchist workers and families, who ran Conchetta and also another squat called Torricelli as a place for housing people and providing local services to the community. It was evicted in January 1989 and then re-occupied a month later by punks from the evicted Virus social centre, who reformulated it as Cox 18. The centre was again evicted in 2009, in an attempt by the municipality to stop the squatters gaining title to the building through adverse possession. Public figures such as Dario Fo, Moni Ovadia, Franca Rame, Paolo Rossi, and Elio Fiorucci voiced their support and the building was re-occupied.
