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DESCRIPTION:Porto Marghera-The Last Firebrands (2004) 52 min. \nby Manuela 
 Pellarin\n40th Anniversary of Italy’s “Hot Autumn.”\nA film about 
 petrochemical workers who took matters into their own hands in the giant 
 industrial zone engulfing Venice. Porto Marghera documents autonomous 
 workers and their experiences from the point of view of the 
 worker-activists themselves.\n"The mass refusal of literally toxic work 
 forced hours on the job down at the same time as driving wages up. The 
 labour hierarchy that sets white collar against blue, permanent against 
 casual, was attacked by workers insisting on the maximum for everyone. The 
 battle in the factory was linked to working-class life outside through 
 direct appropriation of basic social needs (electricity, housing, 
 food).\nUnlike most more or less academic accounts of Italian Operaismo, 
 which tend to focus on high-profile groups and individual leaders, Porto 
 Marghera documents autonomous worker organization from the point of view of 
 the worker-activists themselves, who talk about their experiences in the 
 film. Many aspects and problems of this phase of class struggle are of 
 immediate relevance today”.\nTo be followed by a discussion of the strike 
 wave in Italy, sparked by the strike at FIAT’s Mirafiori plant in Turin, 
 that set into motion the “Hot Autumn” and which resulted in nearly a 
 decade of heightened class struggle throughout Italy.\nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.after1968.org/index.php/screenings/view/3\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2009schedule.htm\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/21/18603256.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Film Porto Marghera-The Last Firebrands from Italy
LOCATION:Niebyl Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland \n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/21/18603256.php
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