Loren Goldner

American Marxist writer on contemporary capitalism and workers struggles against it.

Class Struggle in the Unemployment Capital of Europe Lower Andalucia, 1995-96 - Loren Goldner

This article deals with a number of specific episodes of class struggle in Lower Andalucia[1] in the recent period. Although these struggles have specific regional characteristics, connected to the highest unemployment rate in Europe (43% in Jerez[2] and Cadiz[3]) and exceptional poverty (only a handful of regions in Europe are poorer), they actually fit a national and, above all, international pattern.

Fictitious capital and the transition out of capitalism - Loren Goldner

An exploration of the growing fictitious dimension of the economy and its implications for class struggle.

This text is from the Break Their Haughty Power web site at http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner

Fictitious Capital and the Transition Out of Capitalism

(Loren Goldner)

Notes on Another Defeat for Workers in the US: The Los Angeles Supermarket Strike of 2003-2004

The story of a defeated supermarket strike in LA, 2003-4.

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.