class
A class is a group of people connected by a common relationship to the means of production. On this site class is not a system of individual classification, it is a model for understanding and thus changing society.
Jack Common - selected articles
A selection of articles by the undeservably obscure Jack Common, a Geordie who wrote both novels and essays on various aspects of culture and class relations. His friend George Orwell had written of Common: "he is of proletarian origin, and much more than most writers of this kind he preserves his proletarian viewpoint".
A fascinating writer, his analysis of the emerging mass consumerism of the 1930s & 40s seems to closely anticipate the concept of the 'society of the spectacle' later developed by the situationists.
From the endangered phoenix.com website; http://www.endangeredphoenix.com/
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A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Review of "The Enemy is Middle Class"
A review of Andy Anderson's "The Enemy is Middle Class"/
Multitude or working class? - Antonio Negri
Negri explains his concept of ‘multitude’ in a response to the SWP’s Alex Callinicos at the European Social Forum in Paris, 2003.
Neither Species 8472 Nor The Borg: No War but the Class War - Melancholic Troglodytes
Neither Species 8472 Nor The Borg:
No War But The Class War
'They use flags first to shrink-wrap peoples' minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial
Unfinished Business - The politics of Class War
The definitive book about the politics of the Class War Federation, including brief histories and descriptions of the capitalist system and how it functions.
Clearly written and interesting, it is a good introduction to CW's ideas, though we at libcom.org would have several important disagreements with it. Notably on the issues of class and nationalism
The changing face of the anti-CPE movement
The CPE France blog takes a look back at the past fortnight and traces the changing face of the anti-CPE protests.
From being a university student led movement centred around their campus buildings, the protest has become something '1000 times as revolutionary' according to France Soir.
Financial Times: This is no middle class revolt
In an article which shatters every accusation of a privileged revolt, the Financial Times has become the first UK newspaper to point out the growing class angle of this rebellion against labour casualisation.
They say Villepin faces crisis as "as criticism of his labour market reforms spreads from increasingly violent student protesters to immigrant youth in poor riot-hit suburbs, undermining his claims to be helping the most disadvantaged."
On the closure of the Nestle plant in Norwich, 1995
This article originally appeared in Black Flag #206, Autumn 1995. It was written by Norwich Solidarity Federation, who had contacts in the plant and tried to organise action against the closure.
Nestlé Plant to Shut in Norwich
Nestlé's decision last year to shut the Norwich factory came as little surprise after years of rumours.
What is the Middle Class?
WHAT IS THE MIDDLE CLASS?
"A Class Act" - review of "Educating Who about What - the circled a and its parasites"
A CLASS ACT - Anarchism, Class and who we really want to talk to.
