Mario Tronti’s work formed something of a pivot in the development of communist politics in Italy, and informed many of the premises, or at least touchstones, that would become more familiar to English-language readers through the work of Toni Negri, Paolo Virno and others. 
The AU Treasurer (Peter Costello) - currently in a holding pattern for the Prime Ministership which rivals that of Heathrow’s for duration, and therefore not to be outdone in his defense of the nation - suggested that Muslims who don’t uphold “Australian values” should be stripped of their citizenship.
Cross-trainers, I guess.
Also, in case I haven’t already linked to it: Migreurop’s map of camps in Europe. And, a recent post to the noborder list (which discussed the targeting of companies involved in administering and/or servicing the system of camps), as well as a not-so recent posting over at Icite (via Hysterical Blackness) on the involvement of a Halliburton subsidiary with immigrant detention, produced one of those flashback moments.
Now, none of those postings was in any way suggestive of the same kind of politics I’m about to note, but (nevertheless) I did find myself recalling the pronouncements of some socialist wingnut to the media during Woomera2002 about how ‘we’ all wanted to return the management and running of the camps to state ownership. (Camps in AU, of course, having been subcontracted to private companies for over a decade now.) Controlling the means of production - in this case, the means of producing the exception - I suppose.
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