Steve Wright
Australian Marxist academic with a focus on Italian workerist theory and social movements.
Wildcat interview with Steve Wright on "Storming Heaven"
Wildcat interview with Steve Wright, author of Storming Heaven. Class composition and struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism (Pluto Press 2002).
What did you do before the book came out, what are you living on?
Review - Storming Heaven by Steve Wright - Red and Black Notes
Red and Black Notes review of Steve Wright's Storming Heaven. An extract from Storming Heaven can be found here.
One of the many drawbacks of English being the de facto lingua franca is that English speakers do not as urgently feel the need to learn a second language as others. In effect, this can have the disadvantage of cutting off of entire traditions. Case in point, Italy.
Radical traditions: council communism - Steve Wright
Steve Wright gives a brief overview of the origins, history and basic tenets of council communism, and provides suggestions for further reading on the topic.
Asked to characterise the significance of the October Revolution, John Maynard Keynes - always one of capital's most astute thinkers - once suggested that 1917 heralded the victory of 'the Party of Catastrophe'.
Cattivi Maestri: Some Reflections on the Legacy of Guido Bianchini, Luciano Ferrari Bravo and Primo Moroni - Steve Wright
Steve Wright's analysis of the ideas of three Marxists who, along with Antonio Negri, were accused of being the "evil masters" of red terrorism in 1960s and 1970s Italy.
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)
There and back again: mapping the pathways within autonomist Marxism - Steve Wright
Steve Wright analysis different currents of autonomist Marxism, centred in Italy from the 1960s and 70s to today.
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.
Classe Operaia - The birth of Italian Workerism
A history of the origins of the radical Italian theoretical current known as 'Operaismo' (Workerism), which began with Mario Tronti's Journal Classe Operaia.
An extract from Steve Wright’s book 'Storming Heaven'
The Workerists and the unions in Italy's 'Hot Autumn'
A brief history of the Italian Workerists in the 'Hot Autumn' of 1969, when unions succeeded in recuperating radical working class demands - leaving the Workerists to pursue the doomed road of all-or-nothing armed struggle
Extract from Steve Wright’s book 'Storming Heaven'
'We Are All Delegates!'
In the Shell of the Old - Italy's Social Centres
Article from the 1990s containing information about Italy's movement of political squats called "social centres."
[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.
The limits of Negri's class analysis: Italian autonomist theory in the seventies - Steve Wright
Steve Wright's critical analysis of Negri's ideas.
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
Pondering Information and Communication in Contemporary Anti-Capitalist Movements
Steve Wright
