is a veteran Italian activist who lectures on international migrations at the University of Padua. He was a co-editor of the journal altreragioni as well as Primo maggio. His publications include Migranti nella tempesta (Verona: Ombre corte, 2003) and "The Transgression of a Laborer: Malcolm X in the Wilderness of America," Radical History Review, no. 55 (1993). He is co- editor, with Devi Sacchetto, of Un arcipelago produttivo. Migranti e imprenditori tra Italia e Romania (Rome: Carocci, 2007) and a contributor to Pier Paolo Poggio (ed.), Comunismi eretici. Vol. 3 (Milan: Jaca Book, 2013).
What even the repression in Italy could not cancel was how seriously the so-called “workerists” took the whole dimension of human activity. That was an aspect of what made the extraparliamentary left in Italy different. It already contained, at least in embryo, the claims about who has produced what, who commands what, and who destroys what.
C.L.R. James linked the self-activity of the proletariat in the industrialized countries with the self-activity of the proletariat in the colonized countries.
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