For Manchester members

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A member of Mouvement Communiste will give a presentation on what is workers inquiry and the experience of its use by Porto Marghera workers committee. Which will be followed by a showing of the film, The Suspended Years: Movements and Political Journeys in Porto Marghera.

This film is concerned with the intense series of workers’ struggles which took place in and around the chemical production plants of Porto Marghera (close to Venice), starting in the mid-1960s up until the late 1970s. The Porto Marghera workers became one of the emblematic figures of the whole experience of “workers autonomy” in Italy in this period, alongside the Fiat workers. They were part of a movement which began in the factories but which rapidly spread far beyond the factory walls, to encompass and question the whole of social life under capitalism.

The film consists of a series of interviews with participants in these momentous events, including workers in the plants, students from Venice and Padua, and activists involved in such things as “self-reduction” in supermarkets.

Friday January 24
6.30pm to 9pm
Manchester
Friends Meeting House
6 Mount Street
M2 5NS

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