Destroying his final exam papers at Cambridge University during the summer of 1968, Ed Emery embarked on a life committed to the furtherance of revolutionary class struggle: travelling Italy throughout the 1970s where he encountered the Operaisti, whose novel analytical frameworks and modes of practice had a profound influence on Ed’s personal trajectory and the wider anglophone communist movement(s). Through the pages of his own visually striking journal Red Notes, Ed’s tireless translation of key Italian texts alongside his own workplace inquires, introduced anglophone militants to the insights, theory and practice of Italy's revolutionary workers’ movement.
Including extensive archival material alongside never before published texts, Letters To A Future Republic is the first collected volume of the writing of Ed Emery, an incredibly important, albeit somewhat subterranean link in the transnational diffusion of autonomist Marxism.
This volume contains selections from across Ed's Red Notes series assessing class struggle in Italy, Britain and further afield between 1969-1981. This volume also contains Ed's translation work (and troubled relationship) with the playwrights Dario Fo and Franca Rame; his photographic travel diary across Jordan and occupied Palestine in 1982; his seminal call to arms No Politics without Inquiry; his obituary to his late friend Toni Negri; recipes for fish stew, marmalade, a spaghetti dish and much more beside. His personal writing, collated in this volume under the subtitle Autothapsis (self-burial) will bring readers up to the present day, where Ed is very much still with the struggle and can often be found wherever class conflict erupts: on picket lines, strikes or student occupations, or uncovering the political economy underpinning 'migrant boats'.
At 540 pages, this book is presented in an oversized A4 format to match the original size and style of Ed's former Red Notes publications.
Texts by Ed Emery.
Foreword by Seth Wheeler and Jamila Squire.
Front cover design by Tom Greenwood.
Internal layout by Rory Robertson-Shaw.
Edited by Jamila Squire & Seth Wheeler.
Archival scans courtesy of MayDay Rooms.
ISBN: 978-0-906305-32-4
Softcover, 210 mm x 297 mm, 540 pages.
Destroying his final exam papers at Cambridge University during the summer of 1968, Ed Emery embarked on a life committed to the furtherance of revolutionary class struggle: travelling Italy throughout the 1970s where he encountered the Operaisti, whose novel analytical frameworks and modes of practice had a profound influence on Ed’s personal trajectory and the wider anglophone communist movement(s). Through the pages of his own visually striking journal Red Notes, Ed’s tireless translation of key Italian texts alongside his own workplace inquires, introduced anglophone militants to the insights, theory and practice of Italy's revolutionary workers’ movement.
Including extensive archival material alongside never before published texts, Letters To A Future Republic is the first collected volume of the writing of Ed Emery, an incredibly important, albeit somewhat subterranean link in the transnational diffusion of autonomist Marxism.
This volume contains selections from across Ed's Red Notes series assessing class struggle in Italy, Britain and further afield between 1969-1981. This volume also contains Ed's translation work (and troubled relationship) with the playwrights Dario Fo and Franca Rame; his photographic travel diary across Jordan and occupied Palestine in 1982; his seminal call to arms No Politics without Inquiry; his obituary to his late friend Toni Negri; recipes for fish stew, marmalade, a spaghetti dish and much more beside. His personal writing, collated in this volume under the subtitle Autothapsis (self-burial) will bring readers up to the present day, where Ed is very much still with the struggle and can often be found wherever class conflict erupts: on picket lines, strikes or student occupations, or uncovering the political economy underpinning 'migrant boats'.
At 540 pages, this book is presented in an oversized A4 format to match the original size and style of Ed's former Red Notes publications.
Texts by Ed Emery.
Foreword by Seth Wheeler and Jamila Squire.
Front cover design by Tom Greenwood.
Internal layout by Rory Robertson-Shaw.
Edited by Jamila Squire & Seth Wheeler.
Archival scans courtesy of MayDay Rooms.
ISBN: 978-0-906305-32-4
Softcover, 210 mm x 297 mm, 540 pages.
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