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.
Class struggle or Class hatred?
About my trial published in Umanità Nova, n. 137, September 20, 1921
I expressed to the jury in Milan some ideas about class struggle and proletariat that raised criticism and amazement. I better come back to those ideas.
Working for Wages
Note: This article was originally published in Red and Black Notes.
Working for Wages: The Roots of Insurgency
Martin Glaberman and Seymour Faber, General Hall Inc: New York, 1998
The Working Class and Social Change - Martin Glaberman
Glaberman discusses different notions of class consciousness, based partly on his experiences as both a factory worker and, later, an academic.
Sex, Race and Class
How capitalism and the Left have mystified the real relationships between these categories.
State of the Unions: Recent US Labour Struggles in Perspective
In the USA, the recent resurgence of workplace struggles and their mediation through unions indicate a possible future for the UK and Europe: will social democracy be reborn from its ashes, perhaps in a more radical form, through the initiative of rank-and-file militants?
Aufheben on Decadence
The notion that capitalism must inevitably decline and, by implication, that history is on our side, has been a dominant idea that has shaped much marxist and revolutionary thought, particularly that of Trotskyists and left communists. In the wake of the collapse of the Eastern Bloc it has become more important than ever to challenge such notions of capitalist decline and decadence. In the first part of our critique we examine the development of the various theories of capitalist decline that emerged out of the collapse of the Second International up until the end of the Second World War.
Class Decomposition In The New World Order: Yugoslavia Unravelled
(1) Introduction
Workers and Capital
"Workers & Capital"
by
Mario Tronti
The historiography of the mass worker - Steve Wright
Steve Wright's historical study of the development of the mass worker across the world and the effect it had on working class struggle.
This article by Steve Wright appeared in The Commoner, No.5, in 2002. It is also reproduced here in its original pdf format (100kb).
The Historiography of the Mass Worker
(Chapter 8 of Storming Heaven: Class composition and struggle in Italian autonomist marxism)
Confronting the crisis of 'fordism': Italian debates around social transition - Steve Wright
Steve Wright's in-depth look at views of the Italian workerists on the working class response to Fordism and its effects on class composition.
[First published in 'Reconstruction' #6 (Summer 1995/96)]
