class struggle
Articles about mass working class struggles and the theory of class struggle.
Yugoslavery: Yugoslavia: Capitalism and class struggle 1918-1967
An overview of developments in Yugoslavia between 1918 and 1967, including the wildcat strikes of 1965.
Yugoslavery
Yugoslavia: Capitalism and Class struggle 1918-1967
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Some Basic Ingredients of Yugoslav Ideology
Introduction
1911-1970s: Unions and workers: limitations and possibilities, by Martin Glaberman
Detroit auto-worker Martin Glaberman analyses the bureaucratisation and decline of the US trade union movement. An interesting article interspersed with historical information and personal reminiscences
Consider these two units of time: 36 seconds, the rest of your life. The job that takes 36 seconds to do that you're going to do for the rest of your life. I don't know a better definition of alienation than that...
1600-1980: Introduction to the United States - Noel Ignatiev
Introduction to the United States: An Autonomist Political History, Noel Ignatiev
PUBLISHER'S INTRODUCTION
The Zanj Slaves Rebellion, AD 869-883
A history of the Zanj slave rebellion - East African slaves in Mesopotamia during the 9th century. These events took place around Basra, in modern day Iraq.
Zapping the Zanj: Towards a History of the Zanj Slaves' Rebellion
Revised on: 16 October 2002. This is an ongoing investigation. Credible sources regarding the Zanj are hard to come by. Melancholic Troglodytes would appreciate any assistance from readers.
Statement from Ghazl el-Mahalla's "7th of December Movement- Workers For Change"
In December, Egypt saw a wildcat strike of 27,000 people at the Ghazl el-Mahalla textile factory. As militancy has spread across and beyond the sector in the region, workers in Ghazl el-Mahalla have formulated the following statement.
This is a rough translation of one of two statements distributed by, the previously unknown, "7th December Movement - Workers for Change" in Ghazl el-Mahalla, 19th and 20th June 2007.
Nicolas Sarkozy: A mandate for class war
Conservative politician Nicolas Sarkozy has won the French Presidential election ...
He managed to convince 53% of the population that he represents change and this message has dutifully been repeated in the media over here. Yet he is basically the chosen successor to the incumbent party so, surely, it makes far more sense to say the French were looking for “more of the same” rather than the Royal victory would have been the mandate for “change.”
Trade unionism and the class war - Guy Aldred
Pamphlet on class struggle and the unions by the anarchist-communist Guy Aldred.
Taken from a collection of Aldred's pamphlets Studies in Communism,(1940). Originally published in Pamphlets for the Proletarian, No. 11, (1911). Second edition published in The Spur series,No. 4,(1919).
Guy Aldred was an Anarchist-Communist, based for most of his life in Glasgow and active for many years as a pamphleteer and public speaker.
Kafr el-Dawwar workers are in the same trench as Ghazl el-Mahalla
A very significant statement of solidarity with the Ghazl el-Mahalla workers from the workers at Kaffr el-Dawwar, April 2007.
They promise to conduct political actions in solidarity with Mahalla workers if they will take further industrial action, and stress the need to struggle not only against their bosses but also the official unions which are obstructing their struggle.
Whither the world - Gilles Dauvé & Karl Nesic
Gilles Dauvé & Karl Nesic of the Troploin journal discuss the changing nature of capitalism and class struggle in the globalised 'post-Fordist' era.
WHAT? WHY? HOW?1
- 1. This is a slightly modified version of G.Dauvé and K.Nesic's Il va falloir attendre I Bref rapport sur l'état du monde, troploin, 2002 (also available on our site). We've left out nearly all notes that refer to French language books and magazines.
The call of the void - Karl Nesic
The sequel to the pamphlet Whither the world on the changing nature of today's 'post-Fordist' capitalism, this pamphlet looks at the connections between the current wars, financial crises and class struggle.
Nesic writes: "The present situation reminds us that capitalism is not a framework within which class struggle takes place, but is itself class struggle."
