Caliban and the Witch - Silvia Federici
Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against the rebel body and the conflict between body and mind are essential conditions for the development of labor power and self-ownership, two central principles of modern social organization.
A worldwide strike wave, austerity and the political crisis of global governance - Steven Colatrella
Steven Colatrella on the global wave of strikes and uprisings which has been the working class response to austerity measures pushed by national governments and global governance bodies like the IMF, G20 and the World Bank.
In Our Hands is Placed a Power
By Steven Colatrella1
With thanks to Silvia Bedulli
[i] In our hands is placed a power, greater than their hoarded gold
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold
- 1. Many of the citations on strike activity that follow in this article came from the indispensable website www.labourstart.org.
Policing Us - Midnight Notes
Midnight Notes outline the history of policing in USA. They analyzes the cycles of policing which swing between reformism and repression depending on the changing circumstances of working class position against capital.
From Midnight Notes 8 (1985) http://www.midnightnotes.org/outlawnotes.html
Reviews
Book reviews in Processed World #31.
MIDNIGHT OIL: Work, Energy, War 1973‑1993
by the Midnight Notes Collective ($12, Autonomedia, POB 568 Williamsburg Station, Brooklyn, NY 11211‑0568)
The Incomplete, True, Authentic and Wonderful History of May Day - Peter Linebaugh
Submitted by Django on Oct 4 2010 09:02
Peter Linebaugh's overview of the historical roots of the traditional workers' day.
The Green
Not Our Own: Demystifying Goals & Methods of "Progressive" Work
Analytical Tale of Toil by Steven Colatrella
"Transform the world by labor! But the world is being transformed by labor, which is why it is being transformed so badly."
--Raoul Vaneigem
"Anything built on sacrifice and self-renunciation only demands more sacrifice and renunciation."
--BOLO-BOLO
Promissory Notes: From Crisis to Commons
Historical overview of the recent financial crisis from the North American autonomist Marxist group Midnight Notes Collective
Spatial deconcentration in D.C. - Midnight Notes
Submitted by Red Marriott on May 16 2007 23:13
The story of a covert US Government housing policy - conceived in the aftermath of the 1960s ghetto riots - to remove concentrations of potentially rebellious Blacks and other poor people from the inner city and disperse them in small groups to the suburbs.
Published in 'Midnight Notes', Vol. II, #2, July 1981, MA, USA
Original article first published by the Yulanda Ward Memorial Fund, Washington, 1981(?).
Darkness at midnight: Review of Midnight Oil - Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992 by Midnight Notes
Submitted by Red Marriott on Apr 28 2007 00:36
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
Strange Victories - Midnight Notes
Midnight Notes analyse the nuclear power industry and the 1970s anti-nuclear movement.
INTRODUCTION by Alfredo M. Bonanno
At a certain point in their development, capital and the State manage to rationalise exploitation.
This is happening at the present time to a certain extent: pure repression is giving way to 'being involved'.
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