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Fires that have burned for as long as we can remember

A look at, and a critique of, both Blaumachen and Alain Badiou's theories on riots.

Sabotage: a study in industrial conflict - Geoff Brown

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Industrial Workers of the World post advocating sabotage

A superb and detailed 1977 study of the practice of worker sabotage of production, particularly by go-slows from the late 19th century to the late 20th.

The rise of Islam: What did happen to women? - Azar Tabari

Iranian feminist Azar Tabari subjects to critical examination the widespread view that the rise of Islam improved the lot of Middle-Eastern women compared with their situation in pre-Islamic Arabia.

What happened to Canada?

An article by Marianne LeNabat about austerity in Canada and the right-wing shift in politics.

Five liberal tendencies that plagued Occupy

The liberal tendencies of some Occupiers severely undermined the movement’s strength; identifying them will make it easier to resist them next time.

WSA proposal regarding affiliated industrial networks

A proposal by Mike Kolhoff to the 1992 convention of the Workers' Solidarity Alliance in regards discussion of building affiliated industrial networks. The author argues for affiliating industrial networks to the WSA, instead of keeping them as independent syndicalist formations.

On elder care work and the limits of Marxism - Silvia Federici

Text by Silvia Federici on elder care and its relationship with capitalism, feminism, and the left.

Observations in Gaza - S. Ur

Woman confronts soldiers during the first Intifada.

An eye-witness account of everyday life in Israeli occupied Gaza in 1982.

The Oriental support for Begin - Avishai Ehrlich

Sephardic Jewish labourers.

Avishai Ehrlich critiques Emmanuel Farjoun's article Class divisions in Israeli society, particularly Farjoun's claim that Oriental Jewish rejection of the Israeli centre-left is one made as a class.

Class divisions in Israeli society - Emmanuel Farjoun

Menachem Begin, Likud.

A look at the overwhelming support of the Oriental Jewish working class for the right-wing bourgeois Zionist Likkud party, and arguing that this support comes from the socio-economic structure of Israeli society.