class struggle
Articles about mass working class struggles and the theory of class struggle.
Intellectuals & Power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze
This is a transcript of a 1972 conversation between the post-structuralist philosophers Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, which discusses the links between the struggles of women, homosexuals, prisoners etc to class struggle, and also the relationship between theory, practice and power (4,000 words).
1850-today: Thailand
A brief people's history of Thailand over the past 150 years from its feudal past to its current state as a parliamentary capitalist democracy.
The historical processes that have transformed Thai society, and which are still in the process of transforming it, are no exception from the general world trend. Thailand has been changed out of all recognition during the last 150 years.
1867-2000: A people’s history of Mexico
A working class history of Mexico from the Diaz administration of 1876, through the Revolution of 1910 to the beginning of the 21st century.
The Revolution was the period which saw the Mexican state begin its transformation from an oligarchical-landowners' government to the one-party corporatist model which survived for so long
1900-2000: Iraq timeline
A timeline of key events in Iraqi history and class struggle in the 20th century.
Since the state of Iraq was created early this century, the working class in the area have suffered brutal exploitation and repression at the hands of the rival ruling class groups competing for power.
24. The Coming Revolt of the Guards
The title of this chapter is not a prediction, but a hope, which I will soon explain.
23. The Clinton Presidency and the Crisis of Democracy
President Bill Clinton was reelected in 1996 with a distinct lack of voter enthusiasm. As was true in
1992 (when 19 percent of the voters showed their distaste for both parties by voting for a third-
party candidate, Ross Perot), the electorate was clearly not happy about its choices. Half of the
eligible voters stayed away from the polls, and of those who did vote, only 49 percent chose
22. The Unreported Resistance
In the early 1990s, a writer for the New Republic magazine, reviewing with approval in the New
York Times a book about the influence of dangerously unpatriotic elements among American
intellectuals, warned his readers of the existence of "a permanent adversarial culture" in the United
States.
15. Self-help in Hard Times
The war was hardly over, it was February 1919, the IWW leadership was in jail, but the IWW idea
of the general strike became reality for five days in Seattle, Washington, when a walkout of
100,000 working people brought the city to a halt.
13. The Socialist Challenge
War and jingoism might postpone, but could not fully suppress, the class anger that came from the
realities of ordinary life. As the twentieth century opened, that anger reemerged. Emma Goldman,
the anarchist and feminist, whose political consciousness was shaped by factory work, the
Haymarket executions, the Homestead strike, the long prison term of her lover and comrade,
11. Robber Barons And Rebels
In the year 1877, the signals were given for the rest of the century: the blacks would be put back;
the strikes of white workers would not be tolerated; the industrial and political elites of North and
South would take hold of the country and organize the greatest march of economic growth in
human history. They would do it with the aid of, and at the expense of, black labor, white labor,
