Red Notes
Working Class Autonomy and the Crisis
These are some excerpts from the Red Notes book, Working Class Autonomy and the Crisis
Excerpts from Red Notes, Working Class Autonomy and the Crisis
1. Red Notes' preface and chronology
2. Potere Operaio, Italy 1973
3. Negri, One Step Forward Two Steps Back
4. Negri, The Workers Party of Mirafiori
1. Red Notes: Working Class Autonomy and the Crisis
Prefaces and Chronology
PREFACE BY RED NOTES
Some aspects of the class struggle in Portugal in 1976 - Red Notes
A pamphlet produced in 1976 about the development of class struggle in Portugal.
Workers' struggles and the development of Ford in Britain
This essay by Ferruccio Gambino first appeared in the book Operai e Stato (Feltrinelli, 1972). It was translated into English and published by Red Notes in 1976 as their first pamphlet. The PDF file is in 2 parts, both about 4MB.
Italy 1977-8: Living with an earthquake - Red Notes
A superb pamphlet from a time when a very high level of class struggle dominated Italian society. Despite their differences - the state, church, fascists, Communist Party and unions were all united in opposition to the the radical social movement. In text and PDF format.
Link to PDF of pamphlet.
Published by Red Notes, London, UK, late 1970s
Text version from www.classagainstclass.com, lightly edited by libcom.org
Reclus, Jean Jacques Elisée, 1830-1905
A short biography of French anarchist geographer and writer, famous for his travels, Elisée Reclus.
Jean Jacques Elisée Reclus
Born 15 March 1830 - France , died 4 July 1905 - Belgium
French geographer, was born at Sainte-Foy la Grande (Gironde), on the 15th of March 1830. He was the second son of a Protestant pastor, who had a family of twelve children, several of whom acquired some celebrity either as men of letters, politicians or members of the learned professions.
Archaeology and Project.. The Mass Worker and the Social Worker
Introduction
This text, like the preceding one, belongs to Negri's period in prison and was published, in the same anthology, Macchina Tempo, Feltrinelli, Milano 1982. The problematic of these essays is outlined in the introduction to the article above, 'crisis of the Crisis-state'. The underlying theme is the need to redefine the class antagonism in advanced capitalism, at a level corresponding to the real, total subsumption of society, of social labour as a whole, to capitalist domination. This means, as Negri argues here - but also in earlier articles included in this volume - that the conception of the 'working class' has to be broadened and extended to contradiction and antagonism in the sphere of social reproduction as a whole - ie beyond direct production as such.
