Harry Cleaver

Content by our about Harry Cleaver, autonomist Marxist theoretician, and author of Reading Capital Politically, an autonomist reading of Karl Marx's Capital. (b. 1944)

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Looting during LA riots

"NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!" - Harry Cleaver

Harry Cleaver on the LA Riots, from London Notes #1 1992.

The Uses of an Earthquake - Harry Cleaver

Midnight Notes on the disaster communism and refual of work in the Mexican community of Tepito.

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The Commoner #10: The Carnival of Values and the Exchange Value of Carnivals

Issue 10 of The Commoner magazine

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The Commoner #5: Crises

Issue 5 of The Commoner magazine

Harry Cleaver debates Hillel Ticktin: on capitalism's present crisis... danger and opportunity

A debate organised by Radical Chains and London Notes in London in the 1990s.

General introduction to Zerowork

A short introduction to the Zerowork journal by Harry Cleaver.

Immigration: The blockage of mobility in the Mediterranean basin - Yann Moulier and Pierre Ewenzyck

1978 article with an introduction by Harry Cleaver on migration controls in the Mediterranean basin area.

Internationalisation of capital and mode of production in agriculture - Harry Cleaver

Article on agricultural policy by American autonomist Harry Cleaver

Close the IMF, abolish debt and end development: a class analysis of the international debt crisis - Harry Cleaver

The political targets of this article are reformist understandings of international…

Kropotkin, Self-valorization And The Crisis Of Marxism

This paper was written for and presented to the Conference on Pyotr Alexeevich Kropotkin organized…

On Schoolwork and the Struggle Against It - Harry Cleaver

“On Schoolwork and the Struggle Against It” is an article about the organisation of and resistance to the contemporary capitalist university by Harry Cleaver, a relatively well known autonomist Marxist and professor of economics at the University of Texas in Austin.

The Chiapas Uprising and the Future of Class Struggle in the New World Order

Autonomist Marxist, Harry Cleaver, analyses the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas and its relevence to class struggle in the era of globalisation.