class struggle
Articles about mass working class struggles and the theory of class struggle.
1920-2001: Afghanistan - A Potted Social History - Melancholic Troglodytes
AFGHANISTAN:
A Potted Social History
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If the history of Afghanistan is about any one thing, it is about playing hard to get when capital turns on the charm: a mainly small-holding peasantry and artisanal population that spurns the joys of wage-slavery; saturated carpet
1952-1973: Radical perspectives in the Caribbean
The experiences of Fundi, Carribean Situationist. " From the start we saw through the fraud of the "independent" unions ... We decided that the union bureaucracy must stop; that there should not be any mediation between us and the boss for this has been responsible for suppressing confidence in ourselves to take up the total task of ending capitalism. ... We developed the capacity for instant strike action. We had meetings on the factory compound and the farms during work hours against the wishes of the boss and traditional unionism. ... Such actions are the bedrock of direct participation which stands in truth against the lies of centralized leadership."
None Shall Escape:
Radical perspectives in the Caribbean - Fundi (Caribbean Situationist)
Published in 1988 by
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Nepal: A Long March towards bourgeois democracy?
In-depth analysis of the situation in Nepal, including the anti-monarchist protest movement, the Maoist insurgency, the international economic background and the Nepalese working class.
Notes on Nepal - Spring 2006
Terrain and culture
1945-84: Class struggle on the shop floor, the Japanese case - Muto Ichiyo
Class struggle on the shop floor, the Japanese case 1945-84
Muto Ichiyo
Presented in PDF Format (3mb).
Class war in the Middle East
Capitalism and Islam are twin parasites in the ‘Arab states’ – but workers are fighting back hard reports John Shute
The Gulf city-state of Dubai is, according to recent estimates, the fastest-growing city on earth, and is, after Shanghai, certainly the world’s biggest building site.
Vietnam: Happy meals, unhappy workers - the wave of workers’ discontent
Aaron Glantz and Ngoc Nguyen report on the conditions and views of Vietnamese manufacturing workers who have been responsible for waves of wildcat strikes in recent months.
Ho Chi Minh City - It’s nearly five p.m. and factory workers at one of Vietnam’s largest industrial parks flood into the streets of Ho Chi Minh City’s sprawling outskirts. Some of the workers are clocking out, others signing in. Those who are done for the day cross the busy highway to buy groceries from vendors camped along the dusty street.
Revolutionary "termites" in Faridabad: a proletarian current in India confronts third worldist statism
An analysis of the struggles by workers in Faridabad and of the involvement of the Kamunist Kranti.
The Japanese Labour Movement - Towards Total Dissolution?
The Japanese Labour Movement - Towards Total Dissolution?
Watanabe Ben
Presented in PDF format (1mb).
'The crisis in working class representation' conference report
A report by libcom.org on the recent conference called by the RMT on the 'Crisis in Working Class Representation'.
This event was called at the last RMT conference to discuss the ‘crisis in working class representation’. This is definitely a real issue and problem, however the main problem was that for most who would be attracted to such an event, ‘working class representation’ means a 'workers party'.
The Trouble with Islam
Over 130 years ago the anarchist Micheal Bakunin wrote "I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him." Writing of the Christian churches in Europe, he said "In talking to us of God they propose, they desire, to elevate us, emancipate us, ennoble us, and, on the contrary, they crush and degrade us.
