By Sergio Bologna The “salotti buoni” of the title, which literally translates into English as “good salons”, refers to the informal meeting spaces of Italian societal elites. In what could be described as an “anti-obituary” for Mario Tronti, in this article, originally published in Italian and translated into English by one of the comrades in […]
Before the era of digital production and social media, militants regularly produced paper leaflets and bulletins to convey their political opinions and to build for direct action. Often produced with little or no formal design training, these leaflets were rough and ready-hastily produced in response to a pressing need. However, these leaflets operated like little […]
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Sergio Bologna in English
As with all writings of the operaisti, translation and publication of Sergio Bologona’s key texts into English has been a fairly sporadic and dispersed affair. Although published in a variety of places, Libcom has luckily got the majority of texts hosted – but it’s often hard to trace the publication history of his work, so […]
A presentation featuring Leopoldina Fortunati and Arlen Austin based on the archives of Lotta Femminista and Fortunati’s subsequent projects. As the primary feminist movement to emerge within the workerist culture of the Triveneto region of northeastern Italy in the 1970s, Lotta Femminista would form a basis for the international Wages for Housework movement internationally. We […]
On Wednesday night, 35 comrades met together for the first London Workers’ Assembly. In attendance were members of a broad range of movements – local solidarity networks, various worker organisations, renters’ union organisers, activists from nation-wide projects, and a few currently unaffiliated comrades looking for a space to join. We heard and agreed upon a […]
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London Workers Assembly
An open call to comrades and militants everywhere.
In this first discussion in planned a series on operaismo and art, we were kindly joined by Jacopo Galimberti, author of the upcoming book ‘Images of Class: Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1961-1988)’. Jacopo began the event with a presentation on the workerist political art which existed in opposition to that of the official […]
In anticipation of our discussion event with Jacopo Galimberti, ‘Against Humanism: Artists and Architects within Operaismo and Autonomia’, we are publishing this short gallery of art pieces from and/or associated with the journal classe operaia.
The workers’ committees of Porto Marghera existed, under various names, throughout the 1960s to 1980s. This group of workers, related to the ‘workerist’ current in Italy during these years, and through their struggle against ‘noxiousness’, the workers of Porto Marghera developed a working-class environmentalism that has often been overlooked in many histories of workers’ and […]
Co-hosted with Notes from Below, a talk on “The Weapon of Organization: Mario Tronti’s Political Revolution in Marxism”, by Mario Tronti, edited and translated by Andrew Anastasi. The book is available in the UK from Active Distribution: https://www.activedistributionshop.or… Timings of the talk: 0:00 – Introduction and outline of event. 3:45 – Andrew’s introduction. 12:03 – […]
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