Between rhetoric and reality: Evaluating the Oakland teachers’ strike
Submitted by Scott Jay on Mar 7 2019 06:04
The budget cuts immediately following the Oakland teachers' strike raise important questions about the union's strategy.
Mexican workers take matters into their own hands
Submitted by Soapy on Feb 14 2019 16:51
Largest North American strike wave in decades grows. Rebellion exposes union betrayal, is met with repression from “left-wing” government and a near total media blackout.
Class struggle frontiers in Hinterland
Submitted by Comrade Motopu on Feb 14 2019 00:01
Comrade Motopu provides an overview of Phil Neel’s book and attempts to place it in the ongoing debates over the centrality of labor movements vs. surplus populations and riots vs. strikes.
Matamoros strike threatens to shut down North American auto industry
Submitted by Soapy on Jan 22 2019 13:44
The strike by 70,000 auto parts workers in Matamoros, Mexico is beginning to affect production at US automobile assembly plants, raising the possibility that auto production across North America could be brought to a standstill.
Our passive society
Submitted by Marx-lover on Aug 23 2018 07:55
A short history of how our society became so rife with collective passiveness.
On "Bullshit Jobs"
This is a review of David Graeber's book "Bullshit Jobs."
Council communism or councilism? - The period of transition
Submitted by Fredo Corvo on Feb 23 2017 11:39
Book review of Philippe Bourrinet “The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-68); ‘Neither Lenin nor Trotsky nor Stalin!”, ‘All workers must think for themselves!’”, Leiden/Boston (Brill) ISBN 978-90-04-26977-4.
Why is there no labor party in the United States? - Robin Archer
Why is the United States the only advanced capitalist country with no labor party? This question is one of the great enduring puzzles of American political development, and it lies at the heart of a fundamental debate about the nature of American society. Tackling this debate head-on, Robin Archer puts forward a new explanation for why there is no American labor party–an explanation that suggests that much of the conventional wisdom about "American exceptionalism" is untenable.
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