The working class struggle against the crisis: self-reduction of prices in Italy, 1975 - Bruno Ramirez

Bruno Ramirez's analysis of the Italian working class' response to the economic crisis of the 1970s, with particular focus on "the refusal to comply with price increases of essential services", also known as 'self-reduction'.

With an inflation rate of over 25%, widespread unemployment, and increasing repression, Italy's current economic crisis shows how far capital is willing to push its attack against the living conditions of the working class.

Darkness at midnight: Review of Midnight Oil - Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992 by Midnight Notes

Kuwaiti oil fields burn

A review of an anthology of articles by the US autonomist Marxist-influenced Midnight Notes collective and the earlier Zerowork group.

From issue no. 17 of the Wildcat (UK) journal.

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DARKNESS AT MIDNIGHT


TPTG's Conversation with George Caffentzis

Interview with George Caffentzis on Zerowork, Midnight Notes, autonomist Marxism and American social movements, amongst other things.

TPTG's Conversation with George Caffentzis

PREFACE
George Caffentzis, an offspring of Greek immigrants from Lakonia, a place in southern Greece, is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine. But, as you will see it for yourselves, the 15th of October, 2000, was not for us "an evening with a philosopher". George is an activist to a fault. We met him for the first time in Athens on the 14th of October, 2000, but we have been in correspondence with Midnight Notes editors since 1993.

Food, famine and the international crisis - Harry Cleaver

This article by Harry Cleaver describes the technological development and introduction of high-yield grains into South-East Asia as a method of controlling class struggle.

Since it runs to over 25000 words, we present it here in its original online format of PDF (270kb).

Money in the World Crisis

MONEY IN THE WORLD CRISIS:
The New Basis of Capitalist Power
Christian Marazzi

Wildcats In The Appalachian Coal Fields -William Cleaver

A little blow-out don't hurt nothin'.
A coal miner ain't nobody until he goes on strike,
then everybody's looking at him.

Wildcats In The Appalachian Coal Fields
William Cleaver

U.S. Class Composition in the Sixties

U.S. Class Composition in the Sixties
Capital's "New: Dimensions": The Kennedy Initiative
by
Paolo Carpignano

The year 1959 ends the Fifties in more ways than one. One phase of the initiative of American capital comes to an end and a new one that will characterize a large part of the Sixties in the United States begins.

Notes On The International Crisis

Notes On The International Crisis
Mario Montano

Throwing away the ladder: the universities in the crisis - George Caffentzis

Students during the 1968 San Francisco State student strike.

George Caffentzis' article on the development of class struggle in American universities since 1960.

Throwing Away The Ladder: The Universities In The Crisis
George Caffentzis

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