Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BELLO Walden
’The great insecurity, both in terms of safety and economic survival, that our OFWs in Afghanistan face is one that they share with many OFWs in other parts of the world’
Those following the news from Afghanistan in the last few days may be wondering why there are Filipino workers there when (…)
, by ALBO Greg, ASCHOFF Nicole M., CHASE Eric, LUXEMBURG Rosa, MARX Eleanor, PALMER Bryan D., PANITCH Leo, ROWBOTHAM Sheila, SCHMIDT Ingo, Socialist Project, ZETKIN Clara
A pamphlet for May Day, published by Socialist Project. Below an excerpt from the pamphlet that includes a speech by Eleanor Marx on the first May Day at a rally held in Hyde Park (London), 1890.
Eleanor Marx
We have not come to do the work of political parties, but we have come here in the (…)
, by AKERS CHACON Justin, ARRUZZA Cinzia, AZZELLINI Dario, CARVER Terrell, DAS Raju, DINLER Demet Şahende, HANIEH Adam, LARA María Pía, LEITE GONÇALVES Guilherme, MOJAB Shahrzad, NESS Immanuel, SARACOGLU Cenk, UMNEY Charles, WEBBER Jeffery R.
One Question is a monthly series in which we ask leading thinkers to give a brief answer to a single question.
This month we ask:
What does class struggle mean today?
With responses from: Dario Azzellini; Cinzia Arruzza; Jeffery R Webber; Adam Hanieh; Shahrzad Mojab; Guilherme Leite (…)
, by ALI Tariq, EDGAR David
David Edgar: Would you say a few things about your family background.
Tariq Ali: My family belonged to the Khattar tribe in the Attock District. It was a landed family. Genealogists traced its descent from the 11th-century Rajputs whose conversion to Islam began a hundred years later, boosted (…)
, by ROSS Kristin
Kristin Ross describes the history behind two territorial struggles in Europe and examines their political consequences.
The Zad — Zone à Defendre, a small piece of land near the proposed airport — is site of the longest and largest social struggle in France, and yesterday’s decision was seen (…)
, by CASILLI Antonio, CICCARELLI Roberto
Interview. We spoke with Antonio Casilli, author of pioneering research on the new digital capitalism. “We continue to work more and more, and the platforms are fragmenting and rendering invisible the labor that is necessary to make the algorithms work.”
Antonio Casilli, a professor at (…)
, by GINDIN Sam, HURLEY Michael
Talk to workers in any sector, in any workplace and sooner or later they’ll get to their frustrations with their ever-increasing workloads: ‘I’m struggling’, they’ll lament to fellow workers or anyone ready to listen, ‘to just do the job, never mind do it well’. And yet even though few (…)
, by POST Charles
Neoliberalism isn’t a new concept any more. Using it, along with “deindustrialization,” to describe changes in the core economies since the 1970s has become a kind of truism. But more recently, activists have started to consider what the implications of this regime of capital have been on class (…)
BOTH THE SIZE and composition of the world working class have changed dramatically over the past four decades. But these massive shifts are not reflected in the strength of workers’ organizations.
In what was traditionally called the global South, capital accumulation has resulted in the fast (…)
, by GUTIERREZ Bernardo
New forms of social mobilisation by networked movements have created a new “social atmosphere” that is already having an irreversible impact on other more traditional social and political actors and their practices.
This is the first piece of a new TNI series of articles: At the crossroads - (…)
, by ECHEVERRIA Tessa, POST Charles, SERNATINGER Andrew
Work and labor have always been a central concern for anticapitalists of all stripes. Like just about everything else in the history of capitalism, the world of work is a force in motion. Capitalism changes and responds to the world market, new technologies and developments in the class (…)
, by SOLIS Richard
This contribution was first delivered in the 5th Asian Global Justice School (AGJS) held by the International Institute for Research and Eduction-Manila (IIRE-Manila). It became richer with the incorporation of the results of the discussion of the 2013 batch of AGJS-Manila.
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, by RACHLEFF Peter
On December 4, 2011, the labor movement, the left, the academy, and the historical profession lost a leader and friend. Eighty-four years young, David Montgomery had remained active and vital until his passing, giving an address at a labor history conference at the University of Iowa in July and (…)
, by FRANK Dana
When people first met him, they were sometimes confused or fooled. Surely this mild-mannered, shy, even a bit socially awkward man couldn’t be the great David Montgomery, the towering figure at the top of US labor history? I remember once in 1985 I got a ride to a labor history conference in (…)
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