Abe Lincoln and the 'sublime heroism' of British workers
A blog by Paul Mason detailing the support of Manchester's white textile workers of black slaves during the American civil war. This article is reproduced here not as an uncritical endorsement of Mason or his conclusions, but as worthwhile and interesting piece exploring a little known chapter of international and racial solidarity.
Lincoln and Emancipation - Howard Zinn
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 30 2013 15:28
Historian Howard Zinn on Abraham Lincoln and the eventual abolition of slavery in the US. Which shows that Spielberg's new film, Lincoln, is far from historically accurate.
The struggle of migrant workers in Castelnuovo Scrivia
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Jul 13 2012 15:29
Forty migrant workers have been protesting in Castelnuovo Scrivia (in Piedmont, in the district of Alessandria) since June 22.
The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class-Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620–1877
Most US historians assume that capitalism either “came in the first ships” or was the inevitable result of the expansion of the market. Unable to analyze the dynamics of specific forms of social labour in the antebellum US, most historians of the US Civil War have privileged autonomous political and ideological factors, ignoring the deep social roots of the conflict. This book applies theoretical insights derived from the debates on the transition to capitalism in Europe to the historical literature on the US to produce a new analysis of the origins of capitalism in the US, and the social roots of the Civil War.
Domination and resistance in the transatlantic world - Max Schwarz
Submitted by Schwarz on Feb 22 2012 17:50
Max Schwarz on the importance of the transatlantic slave trade in the transition from the provincial feudalism of medieval Europe to the global capitalism of the early modern world.
Turning Modes of Production Inside Out, or, Why Capitalism is a Transformation of Slavery
In this article anarchist anthropologist David Graber puts forward his own views on the 'mode of production' and gives a more sophisticated materialist alternative.
1619-1741: Slavery and slave rebellion in the US - Howard Zinn
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 21 2011 15:09
Howard Zinn's history of slavery and slave revolts in the United States from 1619 up until 1741.
Inmates in Six Georgia Prisons on Strike for Third Work Day
Submitted by starcityred on Dec 14 2010 02:27
An historic prisoners' strike underway in the state of Georgia with inmates in at least six separate prisons refusing to leave their cells for the third work day.
'As many enemies as there are slaves’: Spartacus and the politics of servile rebellion in the late republic
Submitted by Boris Badenov on Jun 8 2010 02:38
A short essay on the politics (real and imagined) of the Three Servile Wars that shook the Roman Empire, with an emphasis on the rebellion led by Spartacus between 73 and 71 B.C.
Spartacus revolt: inspiration for the proletariat
Submitted by Alf on May 17 2010 20:56
While waiting to hear someone justify what looks at first sight at least like an attempt to sell the Spartacus story as a form of pornography, it's worth drawing attention to why communists from Marx onwards and no doubt before have held the name Spartacus in such high esteem. This is an article published in World Revolution and the ICC's website. It came out not long after the success of Russel Crowe's Gladiator.
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