Social Centres - of the type discussed here- have little to do with the PCI- and everything to do with a rejection of their strategies (the maintenance of workplace discipline/compromise with the capitalist class) by younger worker militants during Italy’s tumultuous 1970s
As British cities are increasingly hollowed out by property developers, a tradition on the Italian left has seen the creation of ‘social centres’, where radical ways of being and thinking can take root. Can we replicate their success? https://t.co/YqYgbP5ya7
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As to squatting in England- things have certainly been made more difficult by successive legislation- however commercial property remains ‘fair game’ and could still provide the space for experiments with radical politics, community building and militant culture.
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For a discussion of the emergence of social centres in the Italian context see @jamsqu and my introduction to ‘A Thousand Little Machines’ -
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@sethnotes Weird article. Says more about commissioning processes in left media than anything else.
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