War is Declared! - Joseph Déjacque
An article in Le Libertaire written in response to the beginning of the Second War of Italian Independece. A conflict that heavily involved French troops against the Habsburg Empire.
Gig economy strike and the Bologna Riders Union
Submitted by Cipo Fraioli on Mar 5 2018 21:55
Riders for a range of food delivery apps in Bologna have taken strike action over poor wages and working conditions, setting up the Bologna Riders' Union.
Transnational radicals: labour dissent and political activism in Detroit and Turin (1950–1970) - Nicola Pizzolato
Investigates the entangled histories of radical auto-workers in Detroit and Turin who challenged capital, the state and the unions, and instead emphasized the importance of autonomous workers' struggle at the point of production for the destruction of capitalism. The article looks at the relations between black auto-workers of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement/League of Revolutionary Black Workers and the auto-workers, and workerist [operaismo] current in Italy.
Gewapende vreugde - Alfredo M. Bonanno
De meest beruchte tekst van de Italiaanse opstandsanarchist Alfredo Bonanno, Gewapende vreugde uit 1977, is een oproep tot militante, speelse actie. Het boek werd verboden in Italië en na publicatie vernietigd.
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Bologna supporters fined for anti-police brutality protest
Submitted by Ed on Jan 29 2018 15:54
Supporters of Bologna football club have been fined for their protest during an away game at Napoli on Sunday to commemorate the violent murder of a teenager by police officers in Ferrara, Northern Italy.
New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism
This is the first book to compile workers’ struggles on a global basis, examining the formation and expansion of radical unions in the Global South and Global North.
Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red
The history of the left is usually told as one of factionalism and division. This collection of essays casts new light to show how the boundaries between Marxism and anarchism have been more porous and fruitful than is conventionally recognised.
Black Friday strikes at Amazon warehouses in Italy and Germany
Submitted by Cipo Fraioli on Nov 24 2017 13:27
The CGIL, Italy's biggest trade union confederation, Cisl, Uil and Ugl have called for a strike on Friday at Amazon’s main distribution hub, following a failure to negotiate bonuses with the company.
Dead fascist poets society: why CasaPound are no book club
Submitted by libcom on Nov 10 2017 12:38
The liberal commentariat seems to be completely unable to resist the allure of the far-right. The latest example: an article on Literary Hub that portrays violent neo-fascist gang CasaPound as some sort of edgy poetry club.
Down with the Bourgeois Republic! Down with Its Constitution! – Amadeo Bordiga
An article from 1947 by Amadeo Bordiga in which he discusses the debate over the constitution of the new Italian republic, the role of religion and secularism in Italian history, the opportunism of the Communist Party, “conformism” in Italian politics, the incompatibility of religion and socialism, the idolatry of the “sacred and inviolable” rights of the “Individual”, the fraud of political decentralization (which he correctly saw as opening the door of politics to the Mafia), the “demagogic appeal to labor” in modern “totalitarian” ideologies (the goal of the workers movement is “a society founded not on labor, but on consumption”), the illusion of self-management, etc.
