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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Fraguas Communique February 2023
From El Lokal (24/02/2023) Call for solidarity to prevent the incarceration of the Fraguas 6 In 2013, the Fraguas Revive project was born in a town abandoned since 1968, expropriated (forcibly and fraudulently) by the Franco regime and destroyed with … Continue reading
Italy: Autonomia (20) – Porto Marghera: the last firebrands
We close our brief selection of texts dedicated to Italy’s operaismo and Autonomia returning to where in some sense it all began, amidst the workers of the country’s large industrial complexes and their struggles for dignity as workers, but struggles … Continue reading
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Italy: Autonomia (19) – Feminism: Carla Lonzi
Woman must not be defined in relation to man. This awareness is the foundation of both our struggle and our liberation. Man is not the model to hold up for the process of woman’s self-discovery. Woman is the other in … Continue reading
Italy: Autonomia (18) – Feminism: Silvia Federici
Italian autonomist Silvia Federici on wages and housework. Federici was co-founder of the International Feminist Collective, and an organizer with the wages for housework campaign. In 1973, she helped start Wages for Housework groups in the US. In 1975 she published Wages Against … Continue reading
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Italy: Autonomia (17) – Feminism: Leopoldina Fortunati
A personal reflection on the feminist movement within Italy’s Autonomia. Learning to struggle: my story between workerism and feminism When I encountered workerism, I was 19 years old. I was a grassroots militant of the students’ movement from the University … Continue reading
Italy: Autonomia (16) – Feminism: Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James
We share below the brilliant and very influential pamphlet The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community by Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James of 1972 that used a feminist reading of Marx to challenge Left orthodoxy on … Continue reading
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Italy: Autonomia (15) – Feminism
Hence we must refuse housework as women’s work, as work imposed upon us, which we never invented, which has never been paid for, in which they have forced us to cope with absurd hours, 12 and 13 a day, in … Continue reading
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Italy: Autonomia (14) – Félix Guattari
Félix Guattari reading the future into the past … The Proliferation of Margins Felix Guattari – Integrated world capitalism does not aim at a systematic and generalized repression of the workers, women, youth, minorities … The means of production on … Continue reading
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Italy: Autonomia (13) – Paolo Virno
Paolo Virno was active in Potere Operaio until its dissolution in 1973. He was actively in the movement of 1977 and with Oreste Scalzone and Franco Piperno, founded the Metropolitan magazine. Two years later, the editorial group of the magazine … Continue reading
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Ukraine: Listening to voices “from below”
It is one year today that Russia invaded Ukraine, with all of the horror and barbarism that follows any war. Over this time, we have sought to understand the conflict as best we can from a distance, without premade judgements. … Continue reading →