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.
Strata in the working class - Martin Glaberman
Article by Martin Glaberman on the divisions within the working class.
The following article was written by Martin glaberman under the pen name Martin Harvey. It first appeared in the Internal Bulletin of the Johnson-Forest tendency no. 6 August 21 1947
Notes on Class
Richard Gunn's notes offer a lucid contribution to the attempt of elaborating what is meant when the concept "class" is employed in Marxist thought.
NOTES ON 'CLASS'
Richard Gunn
(Common Sense, No. 2, 1987)
Amber Films and UK social-realist cinema
Tom Jennings questions the documentary claims of film fictions of lower-class life.
Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting the Working Classes. Film review essay – Tom Jennings
Crimethinc and the corrupting influence of art
In this article for Freedom, first published in 2008, Jim L looks at the gulf between creations enjoyed by the masses and Art for the elites
The left has always had something of a love affair with art. From the mural paintings of the Mexican revolution, to the Bolshevik Constructivists and Left Front of the Arts, to the Situationist International.
Dancehall Dreams by Tom Jennings (2004). Music review – Tom Jennings
Tom Jennings’ essay on contemporary urban music, gender and class.
Dancehall Dreams by Tom Jennings
Time 'to dump' multiculturalism - Joe Reilly
Currently there is much discussion on how the rise of the far right can be halted. The truthful answer, says Joe Reilly, is that an anti-fascism joined at the hip with multiculturalism cannot do so.
Britain 'has the highest number of interracial relationships in the world' according to the Institute for Social and Economic Research. This supremely natural and healthy state of affairs, is however, not due to multiculturalism but in spite of it.
Race attack - Red Action on multiculturalism
G. O'Halloran argues that by its betrayal of principle, multiculturalism is a major propaganda gift to the far right, as well as laying the foundations for the political extermination of the working class itself.
Born of the desire to combat communism, multiculturalism was conceived out of cynicism and embraced by the left out of defeatism.
While we do not agree with the article in its entirety, we feel that it contains a number of useful points and arguments, and reproduce it here for reference.
Race, class and organisation - Workers Solidarity Federation
An interesting analysis of race, anarchism and class from South African organisation the Workers Solidarity Federation from 1998.
INTRODUCTION BY BLACK FLAG:
We recently observed a very fruitful discussion on race and class on the internet, particularly around "black" anarchism, special oppressions and the desirability of separate organisation.
Multitude or working class - Paolo Virno
Virno explores the relationship of the concepts...
There are some analogies and many differences between the contemporary multitude and the multitude studied by the political philosophers of C17th.
The housing question
Aufheben's incredibly detailed and comprehensive history and analysis of housing and the working class in UK.
Introduction
For the vast majority of people living in a capitalist society housing is an ever-present concern.
