Red Notes

A brief chronology and glossary of the Italian autonomous left movement. This sketch political chronology was prepared for us by a member of the Italy '79 Defence Committee.

Prefaces to "Working Class Autonomy and the Crisis" by Red Notes and Conference of Socialist Economists.

In June 1982 the trial begins against the Italian workers' autonomy movement — a show-trial without precedent in post-War Europe. Here the…

Red Notes' preface to Revolution Retrieved by Antonio Negri.

Red Notes publication from 1978 on workers’ resistance to restructuring in the Ford car manufacturing plant in Dagenham, Essex.

Red Notes' pamphlet charting the repression of Italy's 1970s extraparliamentary…

First published in English in "Revolution Retrieved" by Red Notes in 1988. This text, a joint statement by the "April 7th" trial accused, as translated by Ed Emery, was originally published in il Manifesto in 1983.

A selection of Negri's articles written between 1967 and 1983. First published in…

Some excerpts from the Red Notes book, Working Class Autonomy and the Crisis

A pamphlet produced in 1976 about the development of class struggle in Portugal.

This essay by Ferruccio Gambino first appeared in the book Operai e Stato (Feltrinelli, 1972). It…

A superb pamphlet from a time when a very high level of class struggle dominated Italian society. Despite their differences - the state, church,…