through europe - autonomia http://th-rough.eu/taxonomy/term/136/0 en Tra gli Indiani e Berlinguer http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-ita/tra-gli-indiani-e-berlinguer <span class='print-link'></span><div class="rtecenter"> <img alt="" rel="lightbox" src="/sites/default/files2/gallery/gov_19_672-458_resize.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 382px;" /></div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <div> <div class="rtejustify"> <strong>Chiude l&rsquo;Unit&agrave;</strong></div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <div class="rtejustify"> Negli anni &rsquo;50 e &rsquo;60 mio padre portava a casa ogni giorno L&rsquo;Unit&agrave;. Dopo il &rsquo;68 lessi altri giornali, e L&rsquo;Unit&agrave; mi divenne sempre pi&ugrave; antipatico, poi il movimento del 1977 ebbe nell&rsquo;Unit&agrave; un avversario, spesso sleale. Quel giornale attacc&ograve; il movimento di studenti ed emarginati fino ad&nbsp; accusarlo di squadrismo. Diffam&ograve; le avanguardie operaie che alla Fiat al Petrolchimico e all&rsquo;Alfa cercavano di dare alle lotte operaie una direzione radicalmente anticapitalista.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <div class="rtejustify"> Oggi quel giornale non esiste pi&ugrave;.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> Ha chiuso perch&eacute; la sconfitta generale del movimento operaio ha disaffezionato i suoi lettori che sono rimasti pochi, almeno a paragone del milione di lettori che aveva negli anni in cui mio padre ne era diffusore. Ha chiuso perch&eacute; la classe politica ignorante liberista e autoritaria che&nbsp; oggi dirige il partito democratico vuol cancellare le tracce del passato. La chiusura di quel giornale provoca in me un sentimento di tristezza immensa: un mondo che potevo capire, con cui potevo interagire polemicamente &egrave; cancellato da un mondo opaco che non &egrave; pi&ugrave; comprensibile secondo le categorie della lotta di classe, ma neppure secondo le categorie della democrazia e della razionalit&agrave; politica, e forse neppure secondo le categorie dell&rsquo;umanesimo e dell&rsquo;umanit&agrave;.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <div class="rtejustify"> Non rimpiango L&rsquo;Unit&agrave; che nel 1977, seguendo un copione classicamente stalinista accus&ograve; me e migliaia di intellettuali operai e studenti di essere provocatori, come non rimpiango il movimento cui partecipai in quegli anni. N&eacute; L&rsquo;Unit&agrave; n&eacute; il movimento autonomo seppero anticipare e interpretare praticamente la trasformazione che si stava determinando nel rapporto tra operai e capitale, e tra societ&agrave; tecnologia e potere.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> <div class="rtejustify"> </div></div></div><p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-ita/tra-gli-indiani-e-berlinguer" target="_blank">read more</a></p> bifo-ita autonomia Berlinguer desiderio Indiani Metropolitani Italy L'Unita Italian Tue, 05 Aug 2014 14:13:19 +0000 Franco Berardi Bifo 369 at http://th-rough.eu How the Town of Pomigliano Had Its Own Anarchic Carnival http://th-rough.eu/writers/mossetti-eng/how-town-pomigliano-had-its-own-anarchic-carnival <span class='print-link'></span><div class="rtecenter"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/JaEV_A3Bk4c" width="420"></iframe></div> <div> <br /> <em>The People&rsquo;s Carnival that took place in the town of Pomigliano (Southern Italy) in 1977 was an exemplary moment in the history of the Italian Left. Combining folk music, art performance and a radical language, thousands automobile workers and their families gathered up against austerity. The event was depicted in a documentary that I screened (in an edited version) during the event&nbsp;New Politics of Autonomy,&nbsp;at Bluestockings Bookstore, New York, on October 27, 2013, together with Ben Morea (founder of the Black Mask group). This is an excerpt from the talk.</em> <p> <strong>The &ldquo;Dialogue&rdquo;</strong><br /> &nbsp;</p></div> <div class="rteright"> I&#39;ve been working in this factory</div> <div class="rteright"> For nigh on fifteen years
</div> <div class="rteright"> All this time I watched my woman</div> <div class="rteright"> 
Drowning in a pool of tears<br /> And I&#39;ve seen a lot of good folks die
</div> <div class="rteright"> That had a lot of bills to pay
</div> <div class="rteright"> I&#39;d give the shirt right off my back
</div> <div class="rteright"> If I had the guts to say</div> <div class="rteright"> Take This Job And Shove It</div> <div class="rteright"> <br /> David Allan Coe &ndash;&nbsp;<em>Take This Job And Shove It</em>&nbsp;(1977)<br /> &nbsp;</div> <div class="rtejustify"> At the end of the 1970s, Italy was going through a traumatic yet extremely creative phase of its history. Those were the heydays of the Autonomia movement: radical extra-parliamentary groups (composed by students, unionists, workers, unemployed) were fiercely confronting the austerity politics imposed by the bigot, mafia ridden Christian-Democrats (DC) with the complicity of&nbsp;the Communist Party (PCI). While society was increasingly subjected to militarization, corruption was rampant;&nbsp;the decaying political establishment was more arrogant than ever. The party founded by Antonio Gramsci was seen as a Stalinist oppressor by the movement, the big unions as its partners in crime. Not a single day passed without a major demonstration or a few Molotov bombs thrown at the police.</div> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/mossetti-eng/how-town-pomigliano-had-its-own-anarchic-carnival" target="_blank">read more</a></p> mossetti-eng 1977 anti-work autonomia carnival Italy Pomigliano English Sun, 13 Apr 2014 14:59:34 +0000 Paolo Mossetti 363 at http://th-rough.eu Points of Identification http://th-rough.eu/writers/jones-eng/points-identification <span class='print-link'></span><div class="rtejustify"> <em>Transcribed from an introduction to Il Trasloco (Moving out of the Future) presented at Parasol Unit, 13<sup>th</sup> February 2013 by Richard John Jones.</em></div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <div class="rtejustify"> <img alt="" rel="lightbox" src="/sites/default/files2/gallery/Rich and Fed.jpeg" style="width: 618px; height: 412px;" /></div> <div class="rtejustify"> <span style="font-size:10px;"><em>Image courtesy of Parasol Unit</em></span></div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <div class="rtejustify"> I wanted to introduce the film by considering two different encounters that I have had with it, prioritising the sensation and experience of my encounters and considering how these two encounters have shaped my understanding of the film and what it means to have screened it in a variety of locations over the past 3 years. It goes without saying that my experience of the film now is vastly different to how it was three years ago so this has not been the way in which I have introduced the film up to now and I am leaving the opportunity open to find alternative ways of learning from each encounter. That is to say, this is not going to be the only way to introduce it in subsequent screenings &ndash; this presentation now, is not a model for future presentations.</div> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/jones-eng/points-identification" target="_blank">read more</a></p> jones-eng affects autonomia Bologna Franco Berardi Bifo Il Trasloco translation English Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:47:28 +0000 Richard John Jones 317 at http://th-rough.eu A Riot of My Own - trailer http://th-rough.eu/writers/dorigo-ita/riot-my-own-trailer <span class='print-link'></span><p>Devo essermi perso, in un sonno senza sogni.<br /> Li ho semplicemente chiusi. Gli occhi. Senza accorgermene. Accompagnando il battito del mio cuore al ritmo, intermittente, di quello del treno. Un dondolio meccanico, che appena si &egrave; arrestato mi ha riportato alla realt&agrave;. Ma siamo gi&agrave; qui?<br /> Il treno &egrave; gi&agrave; a Chambery?</p> <p> Ultima stazione. Prima di oltrepassare le Alpi e arrivare in Italia.<br /> Finalmente potr&ograve; rivedere questo splendido paesaggio, dall&rsquo;altra parte delle montagne. Per quanto tempo mi &egrave; stata preclusa la vista del versante Italiano?</p> <p> Condannato una prima volta a sette anni e mezzo, con l&rsquo;aggravante del &ldquo;terrorismo&rdquo;. Hanno cos&igrave; potuto utilizzare il moltiplicatore di pena del &ldquo;2,5&rdquo;: se ti becchi 3 anni te li moltiplicano per 2,5 cosicch&eacute; alla fine prendi 7 anni e mezzo. Dopo altri nove anni dalla sentenza mi affibbiano un&rsquo;altra condanna per gli stessi tipi di reato, con con l&rsquo;applicazione di nove mesi in &ldquo;reato continuato&rdquo; &hellip; Dopo appena ventitr&eacute; anni posso finalmente andare in estinzione di pena.<br /> Ventitr&eacute;.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/dorigo-ita/riot-my-own-trailer" target="_blank">read more</a></p> dorigo-ita 1970s autonomia fiction Italy riot struggle Italian Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:40:49 +0000 Stefano Dorigo 260 at http://th-rough.eu Translating Autonomia http://th-rough.eu/writers/jones-eng/translating-autonomia <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> <a href="http://th-rough.eu/side-projects/il-trasloco-moving-out-future"><em>Il Trasloco (Moving out of the future)</em></a> is a 1991 independent documentary directed by Renato de Maria, was screened for the first time in the UK with English subtitles as part of a project by Auto Italia South East, London. The film is set in Bologna and retrospectively depicts the history of one of the key places where Autonomia took place during the 1970s. It was translated and subtitled through a collaboration between <a href="http://www.autoitaliasoutheast.org/">Auto Italia</a> and <a href="http://th-rough.eu">Through Europe</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/jones-eng/translating-autonomia" target="_blank">read more</a></p> jones-eng autonomia Il Trasloco Moving out the Future English Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:43:44 +0000 Richard John Jones 187 at http://th-rough.eu Il Trasloco - Moving out the Future http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/il-trasloco-moving-out-future <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> In 1972, Franco Berardi, aka &lsquo;Bifo&rsquo;, moved with couple of friends into a flat at the number 19 of Via Marsili, in Bologna&rsquo;s medieval city centre. In January 1991, a young man from Iran, one from Zaire and the 41 year-old Bifo were evicted from that same flat by the landlord. In between those two dates, not only 19 years had passed through those walls, but also an incalculable amount of people, stories, political movements, zines, free radios, police raids, and all sorts of poetic and existential experiments.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/il-trasloco-moving-out-future" target="_blank">read more</a></p> campagna-eng autonomia Il Trasloco Moving out the Future English Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:43:30 +0000 Federico Campagna 188 at http://th-rough.eu From Tute Bianche to the Book Bloc: the Italian movement and the coming European insurrection http://th-rough.eu/side-projects/tute-bianche-book-bloc-italian-movement-and-coming-european-insurrection <span class='print-link'></span><p> <em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 6pm,&nbsp; 23rd February 2011 @ Lecture Theatre, Courtauld Institute, London<br /> </em></p> <p class="rtecenter"> The transcript of the speech is avaible now in <a href="http://th-rough.eu/side-projects/tute-bianche-book-bloc-english-transcript">[english]</a> and in <a href="http://th-rough.eu/side-projects/tute-bianche-book-bloc-italian-transcript">[italian]</a></p> <p class="rtecenter"> <img alt="" rel="lightbox" src="http://th-rough.eu/images/we-will-kiss.png" /></p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/side-projects/tute-bianche-book-bloc-italian-movement-and-coming-european-insurrection" target="_blank">read more</a></p> side projects autonomia european movement Italy struggle students urge Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:15:50 +0000 administrator 126 at http://th-rough.eu