Loren Goldner

The Korean Working Class: From Mass Strike to Casualization and Retreat, 1987-2007

Loren Goldner

ABSTRACT

This pamphlet was produced to make available information about the massive working class revolts in Argentina in 2001-2. These struggles were probably the most important action of the global proletariat in recent years. In time what happened in Argentina will come to be seen as an event of similar importance to May 1968 in France when 10 million workers went on wildcat strike for three weeks.

An analysis of the struggles by workers in Faridabad and of the involvement of the Kamunist Kranti.

Goldner interviews Scott McGuire about the attempts of Boston Public Workers to resist the effects of proposition 2 1/2.

Communism is the Material Human Community: Amadeo Bordiga Today

For many decades, revolutionary Marxists have understood the social realities of the Soviet Union, China and other so-called "socialist" societies to be the negation of Marx's project of working-class and human emancipation. Many theoreticians, beginning with Rosa Luxemburg in her 1918 "The Russian Revolution", and followed by Mattick, Korsch, Bordiga, Trotsky, Schachtmanor, CLR James (to name only a few), have devoted major energies to settling the famous "Russian question"': the specific meaning, for Marxists, of the defeat of the Russian revolution and the international success of Stalinism.

"Revolution on the continent is ripe and will quickly assume a proletarian form; but will it not be snuffed out in the bud by the nascent capitalisms of Russia and China, where bourgeois society is still in its embryo?"
Letter of Marx to Engels, 1857

The Restructuring of Global Capital and the Recomposition of Class Terrain

Preface to the 1999 Edition

Moved to http://libcom.org/library/remaking-american-working-class-goldner

"We do not come before the world and proclaim: Here is the truth! Down on your knees! We merely tell the world why it struggles, and consciousness is something the world must acquire even if it does not want to".
Marx, Letter to Ruge, 1843

(The following originally appeared as a book review in 'z' magazine, 1989)

This article deals with a number of specific episodes of class struggle in Lower Andalucia[1] in the recent period.

Fictitious Capital and the Transition Out of Capitalism

By Loren Goldner

Media coverage was eclipsed by Hollywood's Academy Awards, but on Sunday, Feb. 29, Southern California supermarket workers voted 86% to end their five-month old strike, accepting a contract that amounts to a serious, if not total, victory for a determined employer offensive with national implications.Thus one of the most important strikes in the U.S. in years has ended in defeat.

An account of the French "Solidarity Collective" group. Casualised workers in Paris win several strikes, honorably lose another with combined union and extra-union, legal and illegal tactics.

UBU SAVED FROM DROWNING: WORKER INSURGENCY AND STATIST CONTAINMENT IN PORTUGAL AND SPAIN, 1974-1977

Loren Goldner

Queequeg Publications PO Box 441597 West Somerville MA 02144

ISBN 0-970-03080- 0

CONTENTS

PART ONE: CLASS STRUGGLE AND THE MODERNIZATION OF CAPITAL IN PORTUGAL, 1974-1975

"Economics" is, as everyone knows, the dismal science. This is, unfortunately, no less true of left economists than of their mainstream colleagues.