Antonio Gramsci: working-class revolutionary

Antonio Gramsci was a leader of the Italian Communist Party in its revolutionary days, and spent all his last years bar a few weeks in Mussolini's fascist jails. The Prison Notebooks he wrote in jail have been quarried to justify many varieties of reformist or liberal politics. A new Workers' Liberty booklet, discusses a major recent study on the Notebooks — Peter Thomas’s The Gramscian Moment — and argues that the Notebooks were in fact a powerful contribution to the working-out of revolutionary working-class strategy in developed capitalist societies. • Gramsci’s life and ideas: an introduction • The philosophy of praxis, by Peter Thomas • The Gramscian Moment: an interview with Peter Thomas • The revolutionary socialist as democratic philosopher • Anderson’s antinomies: a discussion of Perry Anderson's analysis of the “antinomies” of Gramsci • The other shore of Gramsci’s bridge: Gramsci and “post-Marxism” • Gramsci and Trotsky