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The relevance of Gramsci’s theory for today

By Peter Latham
January 3, 2010 -- I
first read Gramsci in English over 40 years ago. Moreover, my thesis on Theories of the Labour Movement—a Marxist
critique of non-Marxist theories of industrial relations—used Gramsci’s concept
of the “organic” working class intellectual to explain twentieth century rank
and file movements in the British building industry.[1]
This paper is based on the Gramsci section in my forthcoming book on The State and Local Government.[2]
Gramsci dan Hegemoni

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oleh Trent Brown
[Pernah dimuat di http://links.org.au/node/1260, dan diterjemahkan ke dalam bahasa Indonesia oleh Data Brainanta, Staff Dept. Kaderisasi dan Komunikasi Massa DPP Papernas.]
Gramsci and hegemony

Graphic from http://www.i-italy.org.
By Trent Brown
Antonio Gramsci is an important figure in the history of Marxist theory. While Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels provided a rigorous analysis of capital at the social and economic levels – particularly showing how capital antagonises the working class and gives rise to crisis – Gramsci supplemented this with a sophisticated theory of the political realm and how it is organically/dialectically related to social and economic conditions. He provides us with a theory of how the proletariat must organise politically if it is to effectively respond to capital’s crises and failures, and bring about revolutionary change.
Italian metalworkers, Western Australian maritime workers call for boycott of apartheid Israel
Italy's metalworkers: Prosecute Israeli war crimes, suspend EU-Israel agreement
Federazione Impiegati Operai Metallurgici nazionale (FIOM), the largest metalworkers' union in Italy, whose membership numbers 360,000, called for prosecution of Israeli officials for war crimes and suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, as well as of the military cooperation agreement between Italy and Israel. The following is FIOM's January 13 2009 statement on Gaza, published on the union's web site.
Federazione Impiegati Operai Metallurgici nazionale, Corso Trieste, 36 - 00198 Roma, tel. +39 06 85262341-2 fax +39 06 85303079, http://www.fiom.cgil.it/, email: protocollo@fiom.cgil.it.
COMITATO CENTRALE F.I.O.M.
13 gennaio 2009
GAZA
A rough guide to the Italian election
Right-winger Silvio Berlusconi's election victory on April 13-14, the disastrous results for the Rainbow Left (Sinistra Arcobaleno) -- `` new party born old’’ -- and the increased number of no-voters in this election present new yet anticipated challenges for the radical left in Italy. Below, Paolo Gerbaudo discusses the election result and the challenge for the Italian
'We live to tread on kings'* -- The significance of Genoa
By James Vassilopoulos
- Intimidation fails
- Democratic organisation
- The revolutionary left
- Migration issues
- State violence
- Black Bloc
- Battle of ideas
- War
- Notes
``We honour our dead not with a moment's silence but with a lifetime's struggle.''—Words on a poster showing protester Carlo Giuliani lying in a pool of blood during the G8 summit in Genoa.






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