Red Notes

Content by or about Red Notes, a radical publisher founded by Ed Emery in 1976 with a focus on working class autonomy.

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Fighting the Layoffs at Fords - Red Notes

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

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Italy 1980-81: After Marx, jail! The attempted destruction of a communist movement - Red Notes

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

Do You Remember Revolution?

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.

Revolution retrieved: writings on Marx, Keynes, capitalist crisis and new social subjects - Antonio Negri

A selection of Negri's articles written between 1967 and 1983.

Working class autonomy and the crisis - Red Notes

These are some excerpts from the Red Notes book, Working Class Autonomy and the Crisis

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.

Ford strike, Winter of Discontent.

Workers' struggles and the development of Ford in Britain - Ferruccio Gambino

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

Bologna, 13th March 1977.

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,…

Elisée Reclus on his balcony in 1879

Reclus, Jean Jacques Elisée, 1830-1905

A short biography of French anarchist geographer and writer, famous for his travels, Elisée Reclus.

Archaeology and Project.. The Mass Worker and the Social Worker