Doing militant co-research in Bologna

What does it mean to develop subversive knowledge for social transformation? It entails generating knowledge to support struggles. This isn’t about merely ‘understanding’ or ‘interpreting’ reality, but rather about creating knowledge that can be used as a tool to actively intervene in social conflicts and transformation processes. To develop such knowledge, the Into the Black …

Presentation of Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle

Tuesday 20 April, 6pm (Italian Time)Into the Black Box in dialogue with Robert Ovetz and Raquel VarelaLive streaming at www.facebook.com/intotheblackbox.com Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle (Pluto Press 2020)Edited by Robert Ovetz Rumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated. Rising phoenix-like from the ashes of the old trade union …

[ENG] Officina Primo Maggio – Manifesto

We publish the Manifesto of Officina Primo Maggio, a “partisan political-cultural project, consciously aimed at exploring the conditions that make conflict practicable, understood as the ability of those directly involved in the production processes” that will take the form of a magazine, inspired by the historical Primo Maggio. Everything was ready, the first issue packed, …

Investigating the Frontiers of Capitalism. An Introduction to Into the Black Box Collective Research

Here we publish an introduction to the collective research of Into the Black Box we presented at last Historical Materialism Conference. In fact, the 7th of November we participated to a panel on workers’ inquiry with Notes From Below, Viewpoint Mag and Plateforme d’Enquêtes Militantes. The goal of this meeting was to create a transnational networking …

“Un lavoro da tempo libero”: il caso Foodora

Chi sono i rider? Dalle interviste realizzate emerge che i rider sono generalmente giovani, studenti universitari (o ex in quanto delusi dai percorsi di studio per la maggior parte italiani, per la stragrande maggioranza uomini. A causa della crisi, e della conseguente mancanza di opportunità lavorative, di questa categoria fanno parte anche persone adulte: noi …