European Unions

[Michael Pugliese]

> The American workers are very combative -- as we have seen during the
> strikes.  They have had the most rebellious strikes in the world.
> What the American worker misses is a spirit of generalization, or
> analysis, of his class position in society as a whole.


> Yoshie

Mario Tronti (who was around the Autonomia crowd, of Negri, no?

) had a a great piece here.
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/telospress/contents14.html By what I remember
of Jim O'Connor's classes and Harry Cleaver's, "Reading Capital Politically,
(just reissued by AK Press), Italian leftists in the 60's and 70's viewed
the USA w/c combativity with admiration.
BTW, looks like Tronti is in the Italian Senate now.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.parlamento.it
/leg/11/Bgt/Schede/Senatori/00002430.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dmario%2Btronti%2
6hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff
Della Porta, Donatella & Dieter Rucht (1995) “Left-Libertarian Movements
in Context: A Comparison of Italy and West Germany,
1965-1990” in J.
Craig Jenkins & Bert Klandermans (eds) op.cit.

Della Porta, Donatella & Sidney Tarrow (1986) “Unwanted Children:
Political Violence and the Cycle of Protest in Italy”
European Journal
of Political Research: 14(5-6): 607-632.

Lumley, Robert (1990) States of Emergency: Cultures of Revolt in Italy
from 1968 to 1978. London: Verso.

M.P.