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Tag Archives: italy
A roundup of Italy’s ‘Scripta Scelera’ raids
From Freedom News (13/09/2023) … Solidarity spaces raided, presses stolen, and homes invaded – anarchists are feeling the full force of Meloni-era repression after police went after a radical newspaper using anti-mafia and anti-terror legislation. The below article, adapted from … Continue reading
For Mario Tronti (1931-2023)
For Mario Tronti, who died this last August 7th, we share a short text by Diego Sztulwark and Mario Tronti’s Thesis on Benjamin. Today Mario Tronti passed away. His 92 years were many, but he will surely remain the author … Continue reading
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Alfredo Cospito: “I am ready to die”
From Organise Magazine (05/03/2023) … For a year, Alfredo Cospito has been isolated and tortured under the Italian state’s 41-bis prison regime, in violation of his human rights to a fair trial, private life and correspondence. In the face of this criminal denial of life, Cospito had … Continue reading
For Alfred Cospito
After Supreme Court Confirmed 41Bis, Anarchist Comrade Alfredo Cospito Returned to Opera Prison in Milan We have learned that the anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, who has been on hunger strike for 131 days, today, on February 27, was moved by … 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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Mario Tronti: “I am defeated”
For Mario Tronti, from Communists in situ; Italian original / Mar 3rd, 2015 Translated by Rees Nicolas Under the soles of his shoes, you can still recognise the dirt of history. “This is all that remains. A mix of straw and shit … Continue reading →