COMING SOON: Letters To A Future Republic: Selected Writings of Ed Emery
Destroying his final exam papers at Cambridge University during the summer of 1969, Ed Emery then embarked on a life committed to the furtherance of revolutionary class struggle.
At 76 years of age, Ed is still engaged in 'the movement to abolish the present state of things', and can often be found wherever class conflict erupts- be that on picket lines, strikes or student occupations, through to his recent attempts to excavate the political economy underpinning 'migrant boats', Ed continues to stay with the trouble.
Cutting his teeth in the student movement of the late 1960s, Ed travelled Italy throughout the 1970s, where he encountered the Operaisti, whose novel analytical frameworks and modes of practice would have a profound influence on Ed’s personnel trajectory, as much as this encounter would impact the wider anglophone communist movement(s).
Through the pages of his own visually striking journal Red Notes, Ed’s tireless translation work of key Italian texts, alongside his own workplace inquires would introduce 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 and a spaghetti dish and much much more beside.
His personal writing, collated in this volume under the subtitle Autothapsis (self-burial) will bring readers up to the present day.
At 300 pages and growing, this book will be presented in A4 to match the original size and style of Ed's former Red Notes publications.
Destroying his final exam papers at Cambridge University during the summer of 1969, Ed Emery then embarked on a life committed to the furtherance of revolutionary class struggle.
At 76 years of age, Ed is still engaged in 'the movement to abolish the present state of things', and can often be found wherever class conflict erupts- be that on picket lines, strikes or student occupations, through to his recent attempts to excavate the political economy underpinning 'migrant boats', Ed continues to stay with the trouble.
Cutting his teeth in the student movement of the late 1960s, Ed travelled Italy throughout the 1970s, where he encountered the Operaisti, whose novel analytical frameworks and modes of practice would have a profound influence on Ed’s personnel trajectory, as much as this encounter would impact the wider anglophone communist movement(s).
Through the pages of his own visually striking journal Red Notes, Ed’s tireless translation work of key Italian texts, alongside his own workplace inquires would introduce 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 and a spaghetti dish and much much more beside.
His personal writing, collated in this volume under the subtitle Autothapsis (self-burial) will bring readers up to the present day.
At 300 pages and growing, this book will be presented in A4 to match the original size and style of Ed's former Red Notes publications.
Destroying his final exam papers at Cambridge University during the summer of 1969, Ed Emery then embarked on a life committed to the furtherance of revolutionary class struggle.
At 76 years of age, Ed is still engaged in 'the movement to abolish the present state of things', and can often be found wherever class conflict erupts- be that on picket lines, strikes or student occupations, through to his recent attempts to excavate the political economy underpinning 'migrant boats', Ed continues to stay with the trouble.
Cutting his teeth in the student movement of the late 1960s, Ed travelled Italy throughout the 1970s, where he encountered the Operaisti, whose novel analytical frameworks and modes of practice would have a profound influence on Ed’s personnel trajectory, as much as this encounter would impact the wider anglophone communist movement(s).
Through the pages of his own visually striking journal Red Notes, Ed’s tireless translation work of key Italian texts, alongside his own workplace inquires would introduce 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 and a spaghetti dish and much much more beside.
His personal writing, collated in this volume under the subtitle Autothapsis (self-burial) will bring readers up to the present day.
At 300 pages and growing, this book will be presented in A4 to match the original size and style of Ed's former Red Notes publications.