Darkness at midnight: Review of Midnight Oil - Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992 by Midnight Notes
Submitted by Red Marriott on Apr 28 2007 00:36
A review of an anthology of articles by the US autonomist Marxist-influenced Midnight Notes collective and the earlier Zerowork group.
Theses on the mass worker and social capital - Silvia Federici and Mario Montano
A text from the first wave of Italian ‘autonomist Marxist’ theory, first published under the name Guido Baldi in Radical America (Vol. 6, No. 3, May-June 1972).
There and back again: mapping the pathways within autonomist Marxism - Steve Wright
Steve Wright analysis different currents of autonomist Marxism, centred in Italy from the 1960s and 70s to today.
Keep on smiling - questions on immaterial labour
Aufheben critically review Negri and Hardt's works, Empire and Multitude, examining in particular their conception of "immaterial labour".
The door to the garden: feminism and Operaismo - Mariarosa Dalla Costa
A paper on the history of Italian Marxist feminism given at a seminar on Operaismo ('workerism') held in Rome, June 2002 (3,000 words).
When two sevens clash: punk and autonomia
An article on the relationship between punk and Autonomia presented by Keir at the No Future conference, September 2001.
Take over the city: community struggle in Italy - Lotta Continua
Submitted by libcom on Jan 12 2006 15:08
Excellent article from Lotta Continua about different struggles of workers in their local areas in 1973. It covers self-reduction of prices, squatting and more.
The limits of Negri's class analysis: Italian autonomist theory in the seventies - Steve Wright
Submitted by libcom on Dec 8 2005 11:34
Steve Wright's critical analysis of Negri's ideas.
The power of women and the subversion of the community - Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James
An influential pamphlet by Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James in 1972 that used a feminist reading of Marx to challenge Left orthodoxy on the role of women, their labour and their struggles.
The transgression of a laborer: Malcom X in the wilderness of America
Submitted by libcom on Oct 28 2005 19:19
Italian Autonomist Ferruccio Gambino's analysis of the development of Malcolm X's thought, from prison and the factory through to the Nation of Islam, and its deviation from the traditional state-allocated path of ethnic leadership.
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