Loren Goldner
American Marxist writer on contemporary capitalism and workers struggles against it.
Argentina 2001 uprising Treason pamphlet
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.
2003-2004: Los Angeles supermarket strike
The history of a huge five-month strike and lockout of 70,000 supermarket workers in California, which ended in defeat.
The walkout was against cuts in benefits, and run almost entirely by union leaderships. While the supermarkets lost $2.5bn in profits, they succeeded in beating the strike and imposing the cuts.
Notes on Another Defeat for Workers in the US
Revolutionary "termites" in Faridabad: a proletarian current in India confronts third worldist statism
An analysis of the struggles by workers in Faridabad and of the involvement of the Kamunist Kranti.
Class Struggle Beyond Unionism: Boston-Area Public Workers' Ferment. 1981-82
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
Goldner assesses Bordiga's contribution to communist theory.
150 Years After the Communist Manifesto
Reflecting on 150 years of communist theory and practice within capitalism.
"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
1980: The Remaking of the American Working Class - Loren Goldner
The changing nature of capital and its exploitation.
The Restructuring of Global Capital and the Recomposition of Class Terrain
Preface to the 1999 Edition
Facing Reality 45 Years Later: Critical Dialogue with James/Lee/Chaulieu - Loren Goldner
Looking back at a landmark text that influenced Italian Autonomism, the French group Socialisme Ou Barbarie and various US radicals.
"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
A Critique of Kim Moody's An Injury to All
(The following originally appeared as a book review in 'z' magazine, 1989)
