slavery

Debunking the myth of "Irish slaves"

Submitted by Anonymous on Mar 20 2020 19:35

A photo of people who weren't Irish slaves

A detailed, seven part series of articles by Irish historian Liam Hogan systematically demolishing the white supremacist myth of there being Irish slaves in the Caribbean or Americas, and that these "slaves" were treated worse than enslaved Africans.

1881-4: Canboulay Riots

Submitted by Reddebrek on Jun 5 2019 14:57

Re-enactment of Port of Spain Canboulay Riots 1881

The history of the attempt by colonial police to suppress abolition commemorations by the islands freed slaves and their resistance.

A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905

Completed shortly before Walter Rodney's assassination in June 1980, A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 provides an original, well-informed, and perceptive contribution to the historiography of nineteenth-century Guyanese society.

Slaves and Proletarians: The Debate Continues

Martin Glaberman responds to Noel Ignatiev on the question of whether slaves are proletarians.

The Civil War in the United States

Marx writing in Die Presse No. 306, November 7, 1861. Marx makes explicit his concern that the Confederacy might win the US civil war, and that this would result in the system of slavery being expanded to the North.

1831 The Jamaica Slave Rebellion

Submitted by Reddebrek on Dec 7 2018 23:48

Destruction of the Roehampton Estate, January 1832, by Adolphe Duperly

A short account of the Baptist War, the revolt by Jamaican slaves in 1831 that forced the British Empire to abolish slavery within its borders in the aftermath.

1848: Impact of Revolution on French Colonies

Submitted by Reddebrek on Nov 22 2018 21:08

Daguerreotype view of a baptismal ceremony for slaves shortly after their emanci

An article on French Colonialization and the impact of the Revolution of 1848.

A summary of G. E. M. de Ste. Croix's "The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World"

Submitted by Marx-lover on Sep 30 2018 22:59

Dauvé versus Marx

Submitted by Mike Harman on Jul 31 2018 11:02

Juvenile convicts at work in the fields, 1905.

In critiquing Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch Gilles Dauvé highlights limitations in his own conception of the creation of the proletariat internationally, and his understanding of Marx’s work on slavery. These limitations are not unique to Dauvé, but as someone libcom cites as an influence, especially due to his insistence on the proletariat as a negative rather than positive category, and who has been influential on the communisation tendency generally, we should expect better.