Capitalism is the system based on exchange of commodities, private ownership by a few of the means of production and the exploitation of wage workers. Wage workers are paid less than the value of our labour; our "surplus value" is expropriated from us and turned into profit and expanded capital.
news
Scotland faces more council strikes after local government employers refused to increase a 2.5% pay offer.
articles
Texts about and from 1966 British magazine Heatwave, which was linked to American Surrealists and radical unionists.
1968
A short biography of Spanish anarchist Vicente Marti who fought in the resistance to Franco and was involved in the anarchist movement in France.
Tea Break
First issue of an irregular workers' bulletin put together by users of the website, libcom.org. This issue focuses on the 2008 pay dispute over sub-inflation pay offers.