Stories written by Steven ColatrellaSteven Colatrella lives in Padua, Italy. Long active in the Midnight Notes Collective, he is also author of Workers of the World: African and Asian Migrants in Italy in the 1990s (2001:Africa World Press), and is currently at work on a book analyzing the current world crisis not as an "economic" dysfunction but rather understanding it as a crisis of class relations in which the political and economic aspects are inseparable.
He has a Ph.D. from Binghamton University and has taught Sociology and International Relations at a number of colleges including Bard College, the New School, Mount Mercy College in Iowa, The American University of Rome and John Cabot University. He has run into some political problems at a couple of these places due to his outspoken defense of the working class including himself and his colleagues. He has trouble following orders and looks forward to a world without bosses.

The uprising in Egypt, a crucial ally of the U.S., marks the undoing of four of the five pillars–built on past defeats of revolutions and movements– that have maintained the current economic order. As I write this hundreds of thousands have again filled Tahrir Square in Cairo, and hundreds of thousands more march in Alexandria [...]
February 8th, 2011 | Posted in News Blog | Read More »