The emergence of a new wave of anti-capitalist activism on the streets of Seattle, Prague and Genoa has been accompanied by a growing interest in autonomist Marxism. Steve Wright s study brilliantly illuminates the history, complexity and internal debates of this tradition . . . A vital, lucid contribution to understanding how the red threads of Marxism are being rewoven into the fabric of twenty-first century radicalism. Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of Cyber-Marx Storming Heaven is the first comprehensive survey of Italian autonomist theory, from its origins in the anti-stalinist and workerist left of the 1950s to its heyday twenty years later. Autonomist marxism was a political tendency which privileged themes self-organisation, construction of identity, grassroots politics, subjects in struggle which in many ways can be seen as the precursor of today s debates around direct action protest. Emphasising the dynamic nature of class struggle as the distinguishing feature of autonom