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Classe Operaia (Italian language for "Working Class") was a Marxism monthly magazine which was published in Italy for three years between 1964 and 1967. Its subtitle was "political monthly of the workers in struggle."
Target audience of Classe Operaia was the workers, and it was not only a theoretical publication, but also a practice-oriented publication. The magazine's debut editorial, "Lenin in Inghilterra" (), by Mario Tronti emphasized the need to change the Marxist tradition which included the modification the dominant perspective of the period. Such a change was reported to be related to first the working class and its struggles and to the capital and its development. In the same issue an analysis of the technicians of production was presented which has been still used in the Workerism and practice. Its contributors claimed that the workers' strike at Fiat in Turin was so significant that it created a totally new revolutionary path in the Italian politics. The magazine praised the efforts of Raniero Panzieri to support the workers' movement.
The last issue of Classe Operaia appeared in March 1967. It was succeeded by another magazine Contropiano which was started in 1968.
In 1979 a Milan-based publishing house, Machina Libri, reproduced all issues of Classe Operaia.
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