class struggle
Articles about mass working class struggles and the theory of class struggle.
Romania after the transition - restructuring and struggle, 2004
Article looking at capitalist restructuring and economic changes in Romania, and the growing militancy of the working class.
Romania after the Transition
Promised Land and Class Struggle
Wildcat Preface: Beverly Silver, ‘Forces of Labor’
Wildcat Germany explain why they translated Beverly Silver’s book ‘Forces of Labor’, which traces workers struggles since the 1860s.
[i]Comrades from Wildcat have just published the German translation of Beverly Silver’s book ‘Forces of Labor’.
Community struggles in South Africa, 1994-2004
A pamphlet about anti-eviction, water and electricity cut-off movements, and some workplace struggles in South Africa.
PDF taken from www.prol-position.net, converted to text by libcom
Anarcho-syndicalism, racism and Struggle
Anarcho-syndicalism, racism and struggle
The myth of passivity: class struggles against neoliberalism in Aotearoa in the 1990s - Toby Boraman
This article from 2004 discusses several episodes of resistance to austerity in New Zealand in the 1990s.
Whither the World - Gilles Dauve, Treason pamphlet
This pamphlet contains the articles "Whither the World" which was written by two communists from France Karl Nesic and Gilles Dauve in early 2002 and its sequel from September 2003, "The Call of the Void" by Nesic alone.
1872-1995: Anarchism in Chile
Article by Chilean anarchists which details the history of the anarchist and workers' movements over the previous 130 years.
We begin in 1872, when the Chilean Section of the International Working Men's Association was established in Valparaiso, a major coastal city. Tragically, this was also the year of the anarchists' expulsion from the International, and the section was not destined to last for long.
1912: The syndicalist trials
A short history of the trials and legal repression of radical trade unionists in the UK in the early twentieth century.
The relatively high degree of political liberty which was enjoyed during the first decade of the twentieth century in this country was the result of the continuous struggle which radicals and reformists had waged against their rulers for a century and a half.
1799-today: Repression in Britain
A short history of repressive and anti-worker government practice and legislation in Britain over the past two centuries.
Ever since the rise of capitalism and the modern state, governments have sought a compliant and quiescent workforce and have initiated various methods of control over those sections of the population that they see as a potential threat to the status quo.
Marx’s mole is dead! - Globalisation and communication - Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri
This text is effectively a summary of the arguments in Empire, in particular Negri & Hardt’s contention that Marx’s conception of class struggle is obsolete and that globalisation can be understood as capitalism's response to class struggle (7,000 words).
