German Artisans and Artisan movements in the 1840s
An article about the conditions of the working class in the German States and Vienna in the 1840s and the early beginnings of class consciousness it provoked and its expression in the 1848 revolutions.
Is an over-supply of labour depressing wages?
Submitted by QQ on Oct 30 2018 19:10
Are trade union bureaucrats correct in saying Marx believed an over-supply of labour depresses wages? We take a look at what Marx called "the absolute general law of capitalist accumulation" to discover if this is true.
Report on the 2018 IWW Organising Summit
Submitted by Reddebrek on Oct 21 2018 19:24
My notes on the UK IWW's organising summit in Sheffield.
1960- Japan's Coal Miners Strike
Submitted by Reddebrek on Aug 27 2018 01:20
A history of Japan podcast about the massive coalminers strike in Miike on the island of Kyushu in 1960, and its impact on the Japanese economy, Japanese unions and the Japanese left.
Beware False Friends!
Submitted by Internationalis... on Aug 21 2018 18:42
Many working class people do not believe that their class has the potential to change the world. Indeed many of us do not even recognise the idea of class, let alone see themselves as part of the class of “women and men of no property”. This is not surprising. The ruling capitalist class have powerful tools to confuse and distract the working class.
Anarchism and Trade Unionism
GASTON GERARD is a lecturer in political science whose valuable discussion of an anarchist approach to trade unionism first appeared in the University Libertarian in 1957.
