Antonio Negri is an independent scholar and political activist. He has taught political science at the University of Paris and the University of Padua. He is the author of more than thirty books, many of which have been translated into several languages. Among his translated works in English are The Savage Anomaly (Minnesota, 1991); Marx beyond Marx; Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State (Minnesota, 1992); Time for Revolution; and Books for Burning. He is coauthor, with Michael Hardt, of Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State-Form (Minnesota, 1994); Empire; and Multitude. He was the most prominent figure in the Autonomia movement in Italy in the 1970s, and he has participated several times in the Global Social Forum. Many of his works have inspired contemporary antiglobalization political movements around the world.