Books and films

Workers and the State. Workers’ Struggles and Reform of the Capitalist State from the October Revolution to the New Deal / Operai e Stato. Lotte operaie e riforma dello Stato capitalistico tra Rivoluzione d’Ottobre e New Deal

First published in the early 1970s, Operai e Stato is a classic of radical and workerist thought that shaped a generation of political activists. Its essays examine class composition, political organization, Keynes and the New Deal, and workers’ struggles in Britain and the United States, connecting European and American labor history.

Workerism in the 1960s. From “Quaderni rossi” to “classe operaia” / L’operaismo degli anni Sessanta. Da «Quaderni rossi» a «classe operaia»

A documentary history of Italian workerism, from Quaderni rossi to classe operaia. Edited by Giuseppe Trotta and Fabio Milana, it brings together mostly unpublished documents from 1959–1968, thirteen participants’ testimonies, images, a chronology and bibliography, with an introductory essay by Mario Tronti.

The Workerists. Autobiographies of the “Bad Teachers” / Gli operaisti. Autobiografie dei cattivi maestri

First-person autobiographical interviews trace Italian workerism from Quaderni rossi through the student and workers’ struggles of 1968–1969, new political and union organizations, and later international movements. Edited by Guido Borio, Francesca Pozzi and Gigi Roggero, the collection explores its participants’ ideas, political practices and methods of…