Insurgent Notes

How the French pension system works - Henri Simon

Henri Simon looks behind the pension reform demonstrations and sees discontent with politics and politicians, and with the capitalist system itself.

John Garvey critically examines the contemporary American education system.

S Artesian on the Wisconsin protests and the governor's attack on workers.

Loren Goldner examines the Wisconsin protests against the background of the capitalist assault against workers since the 1970s.

Issue three of the journal of communist theory and practice.

S Artesian writes for Insurgent Notes on how the very mechanism of capital accumulation becomes a barrier to its own accumulation.

Lance Carter gives an account and analysis of the hugely successful wildcat strike wave at mostly Japanese-owned auto factories in China, 2010.

Kadir Ateş and Toros Korkmaz analyse the Tekel tobacco plant strikes in Turkey between 2009 and 2010.

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Graffiti from the uprising in Cairo

Photographs of graffiti painted up during the riots.

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Bar humbug: the new shape of work

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