Building the infrastructure state: plans, anti-politics and sullen refusal
Submitted by With Sober Senses on Sep 21 2014 11:45
The text of my paper that I presented at Historical Materialism Australasia 2014. I haven’t had much time to generate much new research so this paper serves two roles: it is a summation of the argument made in Roads to Nowhere – Capital’s Plan A and it introduces a new problem. This problem is that despite an existing and clear strategy for stimulating capital accumulation, a plan shared by many of the thinkers and political forces of capital, the state has not been able to effectively realise it.
Solidarity Federation wins unpaid wages in Newcastle
Submitted by plasmatelly on May 1 2014 16:14
Just in time for May Day, another pay packet win for SolFed - this time it's Newcastle Local's turn.
Roads to nowhere: capital's plan A (in Australia)
Submitted by With Sober Senses on Mar 30 2014 01:55
An analysis of capital's attempt to build a way out of the end of the mining boom via massive infrastructure construction
All in a day’s work: life and labor in the day labor industry
An article by Everett Martinez about the day labor industry in the construction trades.
The lump: an heretical analysis - Dave Lamb
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 16 2014 16:03
1974 pamphlet by Solidarity criticising the standard left and union response to "the lump": the paying of building workers by lump sums for a job instead of union rates on national terms and conditions. Deeply controversial at the time, it criticised the slogan "Defend the unions, smash the lump!" and pointed out that the building unions agreeing to enforce a government pay freeze in "national interest" bore much responsibility for the development.
Solidarity for workers' full control #06
Issue of South London Solidarity from 21 September, 1969, with articles about struggles in construction engineering at Kingsnorth, Northfleet, Fawley and more.
Workers building Samsung factory riot in Vietnam
Submitted by Jim Clarke on Jan 9 2014 14:53
Thousands of construction workers building a Samsung's factory in Vietnam's northern Thai Nguyen province clashed with security guards on Thursday, leaving 13 people injured, four critically.
Meet my mates, the bastards
Submitted by plasmatelly on Nov 5 2013 23:22
Fancy a challenge? Try keeping your politics intact whilst working with ordinary, apolitical workmates to build an unofficial union. Apolitical workplace organisers have it easy! If, like me, you hold dear a set of political beliefs that can only be fully realised once state and capital are no more, organising with your workmates may prove the most frustrating way of spending your precious time.
The common struggle: the firefighters show the way!
Submitted by plasmatelly on Oct 3 2013 15:49
Following the first fire brigade strike of 2013 over proposed pension changes, a short look at how injury and incapacity unites all manual workers.
Solidarity for workers' power #2.12
Issue of Solidarity for workers' power containing a Building Stewards Committee of London statement in favour of higher wages, commentry on the 1963 Public Order Act and more.
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