" A spectre is haunting multinational capitalism -- the spectre of free information. All the powers of globalism have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Microsoft and Disney, the World Trade Organization, the United States Congress and the European Commission.

Where are the advocates of freedom in the new digital society who have not been decried as pirates, anarchists, communists?

Have we not seen that many of those hurling the epithets were merely thieves in power, whose talk of intellectual property was merely an attempt to retain unjustifiable priveliges in a world irrevocably changing?

But it is acknowledged by all powers of globalism that the movement for freedom is itself a power. And it is high time that the movement for freedom should publish our views in the face of the whole world to meet this nursery tale of the spectre of free information with a manifesto of our own.

That's where it begins....."

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Luther Blissett/Wu Ming & the Musti Affair: Court decision

Some readers will be aware that one of the Italian sections of the Luther Blissett Project encountered serious legal problems in 1998, owing to a book they penned named "Let the Children.....". The bad news is that the decision of the court has finally arrived, and they lost. The good news is that they remain undaunted, and the text remians available. You can enjoy the offending text at this location. Some of the individuals formerly involved in LB now animate the Wu Ming Foundation.

Read more. Autonomia

Few movements are as randomly characterised in contempoary political discussion as Autonomia or 'autonomism'. Whilst the term has recently become synonymous with the historical trajectory of Toni Negri, and the origins of the White Overall movement in particular, it is important to understand that historically Autonomia Operaia was composed of divergent practices, strategies and organisational models. Sergio Bologna played a key role during the 'golden era' of the Italian Movement and represents a tendency quite distinct from that of Negri. This little distributed interview from 1995 illustartes some of these differences. If readers find this piece interesting or useful, or in general believe that such a redistribution of historical materials is worthwhile, please let us know in the comments section.

For an Analysis of Autonomia -An Interview with Sergio Bologna
by Patrick Cuninghame

Sergio Bologna[i], as one of the leading intellectuals of the Italian ‘operaism’ (workerism)[ii] Marxist current, has maintained a sympathetic but critical stance towards the social movements of autonomous workers, self-organised students, radical feminists and counter-cultural youth that made up Autonomia (Autonomy) in the 1970s. His essay on the 1977 Movement (in which Autonomia was one of the main protagonists), ‘The Tribe of Moles’, provides one of the most complete analyses of the social, political and economic origins and composition of one of Italy’s most important mass political and social movements, the roots of the present widespread network of centri sociali (squatted social centres) and free radio stations.

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