Pub Date : 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1163/26667185-bja10042
Hibist Kassa
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Pub Date : 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1163/26667185-bja10041
Camilla Sclocco
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Pub Date : 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1163/26667185-bja10045
Andreas Petrossiants
In 1970, at a congress in Rome of the extra-parliamentary Marxist organization Potere Operaio (workers’ power), it was decided that several members would head south to Sicily to agitate with workers at a petrochemical plant. I argue that this is a generative example for considering the postwar reception of Antonio Gramsci’s writing by revolutionaries outside official party frameworks and for thinking through the Southern Question today. Furthermore, it invites us to reconsider how the notion of subalternity is deployed in some contemporary critical theory. I apply operaismo’s key notion of “class composition” to the Southern Question, proposing the term “subaltern composition.” If, as Mario Tronti famously demonstrated in Workers and Capital, the “bible” of operaismo, that there is no class without class struggle, then I ask here: is there a subaltern subject without subaltern struggle?
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Pub Date : 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1163/26667185-bja10043
Ian McKay
Bulgaria’s particularly tragic experience with covid-19, with one of the largest death tolls per 100,000 in Europe, can be analysed in terms of purely natural factors (more lethal variants), the foibles and missteps of leaders, and unpredictable vaccine supplies. From a Gramscian critical materialist perspective, the pattern is better understood in terms of four interlocking structures: Bulgaria’s subaltern status as a downtrodden colony of Europe, its mode of insertion into globalised capitalism, the Orthodox Church’s strenuous effort to maintain its hegemonic position within Bulgarian nationalism, and the crisis of hegemony that engulfed a government already reliant on corruption more than persuasion, with an inchoate and ideologically variegated ‘Great National Revolt’ against it coinciding with the pandemic. The upshot of these structures was a rate of vaccination that was unusually low by European standards, leaving many Bulgarians, especially the elderly, lethally exposed to the disease and harmed by a widely distrusted corrupt neoliberal state.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1163/26667185-bja10044
Giorgio Grimaldi
In a 1954 work titled Dialogue on Power and Access to the Powerful, Carl Schmitt reflects on power and its ‘essence’. On the one hand, a strategy is in place to demonstrate Schmitt’s own non-involvement with the concrete exertion of power in the Third Reich, a non-involvement about which it is legitimate to have more than one doubt. What interests us in this article, however, is another side of the Dialogue: Schmitt’s reflection on power as such. Extremely careful about the mechanisms of power that men exert among themselves, Schmitt’s analysis has a background – to be deciphered – that refers to a non-immanent original dimension of power. To trace this dimension, whose references are scattered throughout the text, (a) we shall proceed to follow the course of the Dialogue on Power, pinpointing the tragic character established here with regard to human power, and (b) we will try to establish what for Schmitt is the origin, in its truth, of power. Lastly, (c) we will attempt to indicate a possible line of research in view of a horizon unacknowledged by Schmitt, that of a power that can have the possibility and the potency to destitute itself as domination, that is, as a series of relations of subordination that repeat and follow those between master (dominus) and servant.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1163/26667185-bja10047
Sophie Béroud
This article analyses the exceptional social movement that took place in France between January and June 2023 against the increase in the retirement age imposed by the government. The mobilisation took place within a unified framework that brought together all the trade unions and encouraged massive participation by workers. On several occasions, the demonstrations brought together more than three million people. However, although there were strong individual strikes, these did not develop into a general strike. This article explores these contradictions by looking at the various industrial relations reforms that have weakened union action in the workplace and now make it difficult to build strike action.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1163/26667185-bja10030
Alesssandra Marchi
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Pub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1163/26667185-bja10028
Maurizio Atzeni
Abstract The following is an interview with Pocho, Union Trabajadores de la Tierra ( utt ) activist from the Argentinean province of Chubut. The interview highlights the struggle based process of growth of the organisation, the labour centred strategy that have characterised utt , but also how workers direct economic concerns were built into an economically alternative and ecologically sustainable project. The interview put in evidence the challenges and opportunities for a social movement that accepts to play on both the front of workers’ rights and demands and that of market competition.
{"title":"Collective Action, Organisation and the Struggle for an Alternative Food System: An Interview with Pocho, Union Trabajadores de la Tierra, Argentina","authors":"Maurizio Atzeni","doi":"10.1163/26667185-bja10028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26667185-bja10028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The following is an interview with Pocho, Union Trabajadores de la Tierra ( utt ) activist from the Argentinean province of Chubut. The interview highlights the struggle based process of growth of the organisation, the labour centred strategy that have characterised utt , but also how workers direct economic concerns were built into an economically alternative and ecologically sustainable project. The interview put in evidence the challenges and opportunities for a social movement that accepts to play on both the front of workers’ rights and demands and that of market competition.","PeriodicalId":498100,"journal":{"name":"Notebooks: the journal for studies on power","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136356818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1163/26667185-02010000
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Pub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1163/26667185-02010001
{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/26667185-02010001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26667185-02010001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":498100,"journal":{"name":"Notebooks: the journal for studies on power","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136356826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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