‘Archives of Lotta Feminista’ with Leopoldina Fortunati and Arlen Austin

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 […]

“Against Humanism: Artists and Architects within Operaismo and Autonomia” with Jacopo Galimberti

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 […]

The Workers’ Committees of Porto Marghera and ‘Workerist Environmentalism’ with Lorenzo Feltrin

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 […]

“The Weapon of Organization” with Andrew Anastasi

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 – […]

A Moment With Marx | Introduction to Workers’ Inquiry #1

An annotated video script and some more resources on workers’ inquiry can be found here. Cheers!