Cattivi Maestri: Reflections on the Legacy of Guido Bianchini, Luciano Ferrari Bravo and Primo

Steve Wright

You were like one who, traveling by night,

Carries the torch behind - no help to him -

But he makes those who follow him the wiser.(1)

How to interpret the contours of autonomist Marxism over the past quarter century? Before 1979, any discussion of the topic would necessarily have centred upon the Italian experience.

An extract from Steve Wright’s book 'Storming Heaven'

Extract from Steve Wright’s book 'Storming Heaven'

'We Are All Delegates!'

[b]Living In The Heart Of The Beast - Italy's Social Centres[/b]
Every May Day since 1986, Forte Prenestino in Rome has hosted the 'Festival of Non-Labour'.

Through music, videos, theatre, good food, and debate, its occupants celebrate not only the coming of Spring, but the ongoing efforts of people like themselves to challenge and overturn the rhythms of capital and the state.

From Reconstruction 8 (Winter/Spring 1996)

Over the past decade, Toni Negri's association with Deleuze and Guattari has made his name well known to English-language readers of radical thought. But as STEVE WRIGHT shows, Negri's most distinctive ideas would first be debated within the Italian revolutionary movement of the seventies.

Pondering Information and Communication in Contemporary Anti-Capitalist Movements

Steve Wright

This article by Steve Wright appeared in The Commoner, No.5, in 2002.

Confronting the crisis of 'fordism':
Italian debates around social transition*

Steve Wright
[First published in 'Reconstruction' #6 (Summer 1995/96)]

A Party of Autonomy?

Steve Wright

In loving memory of Ivan Conabere-'Uno di noi'

Autonomia operaia is a party, from the phenomenal, organisational and structural point of view-Judge Pietro Calogero (La Repubblica 1979: 120).

If only!-Mario Dalmaviva, Luciano Ferrari Bravo, Toni Negri, Oreste Scalzone, Emilio Vesce, Lauso Zagato (1979: 23).

This chapter seeks to explore, in a critical manner, the debate over the party-form played out within and around the groups of Autonomia Operaia during the late seventies, when that area of revolutionary politics was briefly the dominant force within the Italian far left.