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.
1980: The Remaking of the American Working Class - Loren Goldner
The changing nature of capital and its exploitation.
The Restructuring of Global Capital and the Recomposition of Class Terrain
Preface to the 1999 Edition
A Commune in Chiapas? Mexico and the Zapatista Rebellion, 1994-2000
Since the occupation of January 1994, many have projected their hopes onto this 'exotic' struggle against 'neo-liberalism'. We examine the nature of the Zapatista uprising by moving beyond the bluster of the EZLN communiqués, on which so many base their analysis.
[b]Not proletarian, yet not entirely peasant, the Zapatistas' political ideas are riven with contradictions. We reject the academics' argument of Zapatismo's centrality as the new revolutionary subject, just as we reject the assertions of the 'ultra-left' that because the Zapatistas do not have a communist programme they are simply complicit with capital.
Appeal to the Proletariat of Germany!
Appeal to German workers from the Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands (KAPD - Communist Workers Party of Germany) on the 4th August 1920, with added notes
South Africa: Class Struggle vs. Race Struggle - ICG
From Communism #3
Slogans Foreign to the Proletariat, Alienated WorkersÂ’ Consciousness - Communism #13
Concerning slogans such as:
"Protect work"
"Protect the workplace"
"Protect the company"
"Protect the national economy"
DOWN WITH LABOUR! - Communism #13
"Political economy conceals the estrangement in the nature of labour by ignoring the direct relationship between the worker (labour) and production. It is true that labour produces marvels for the rich, but it produces privation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker.
What Reduction of Working Time? - Communism #10
The following text was first published in Communism No.2 in 1985. At that time we were faced with language difficulties that made our texts in English quite obscure for our readers. Now, thanks to the effort of more and more English-speaking comrades, the texts published in Communism are far easier to read. This is one reason why we are republishing this text.
What Reduction of Working Time? - Communism #2
Introduction
One of the bourgeoisie's strengths is to present the reforms needed for the accumulation of capital as working class conquests. This is the case of the so-called 'reduction of working time' preached by all the unions and left parties of the world.
General intellect - Maurizio Lazzarato
Maurizio Lazzarato's inquiry into the production of informational/cultural content as a commodity.
GENERAL INTELLECT:
Towards an Inquiry into Immaterial Labour
by Maurizio Lazzarato
translated by Ed Emery
[TRANSLATOR'S NOTE: This is a rough working version. I have put it on this site while we work on the final text. Please do not copy or circulate]
