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  • Azawu general secretary Patrick Mkhize said the April 27 poll would not emancipate workers from exploitation because the impending government was not "workerist" orientated.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • The split broke out into the open on July 25, 1979, when the leftist paper Lotta Continua published a long document that had been left anonymously at their offices by "workerist" Brigadists and that severely criticized Curcio and other hard-line Brigadists for pursuing a terrorist policy of "provocation."

    Terror in Italy: An Exchange Palma, Armando De 1980

  • On August 10, 1979, Curcio responded from jail with an excommunication both of the "workerist" Brigades and of Toni Negri.

    Terror in Italy: An Exchange Palma, Armando De 1980

  • The Left was generally "workerist," in the sense that what didn't come out of the factories was suspect.

    Signs of the Times 2009

  • The Left was generally "workerist," in the sense that what didn't come out of the factories was suspect.

    Signs of the Times 2009

  • Like Mayekiso, Erwin was one of the "workerist" trade unionists who helped to build the modern union movement.

    IOL: News 2009

  • I think there has been a tendency in the movement for us to become "workerist," but if you look at the literature and the history of the left, including the communist left, I don't think that that has generally been the case, that it has been so exclusively focused on a kind of workerism or primarily concerned with the immediate needs of the working class.

    Political Affairs Magazine 2009

  • I think there has been a tendency in the movement for us to become "workerist," but if you look at the literature and the history of the left, including the communist left, I don't think that that has generally been the case, that it has been so exclusively focused on a kind of workerism or primarily concerned with the immediate needs of the working class.

    Political Affairs Magazine 2009

  • This may mark the schism between Negri and the Red Brigades and may be the root of the split in the Red Brigades between the extreme Stalinist wing and the more moderate "workerist" wing composed of such dissidents as Valerio Morucci and Adriana Faranda, both arrested last May.

    Terror in Italy: An Exchange Palma, Armando De 1980

  • "workerist" and then we imagine we can dismiss them.

    Contents: 2003

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