Communities of resistance unite! The Edinburgh Unemployed Workers Centre (1980-1994)
Submitted by bambule on Feb 6 2021 17:37
This paper looks into the history of the Edinburgh Unemployed Workers Centre (EUWC) and the struggles of anti-authoritarian revolutionary groups in Edinburgh during the 1980s and early 1990s. Grassroots and direct action oriented groups started to organise together in the early 1980s against the various attacks on the working class. They were often based in the EUWC and developed highly sophisticated forms of community resistance which culminated in their crucial role in the Poll Tax rebellion.
Unrest in the USA: A Perfect Storm
Submitted by Internationalis... on Aug 6 2020 20:46
The spread of COVID-19 to the United States earlier this year both triggered and exacerbated the economic crisis which has been building up for decades. Around 50 million workers in America have been thrown out of work since the start of the lockdown, the great majority of whom have no alternative source of income for the necessities of life.
Down But Not Out: The Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression
Submitted by Marx-lover on Dec 27 2019 00:50
This is a Ph.D. dissertation in the field of U.S. labor history. See www.wrightswriting.com/ for more Marxist scholarship.
Workers are Paying for the Bosses' Crisis
Submitted by Internationalis... on Dec 15 2019 13:56
For years now the whole Brexit issue has diverted attention from the declining quality of life experienced by the working class in the aftermath of the financial crash. Now we have an election campaign where Labour and the Conservatives are vying to outdo each other as to how much they will increase state spending in order to end austerity. Labour's plans for a kind of soft nationalisation (a sort of John Lewis employee share scheme, “when the market will allow it”) and Boris' gob shite about the NHS (as the break-up continues) are not going to alter the fact that the working class is paying for capitalism's crisis.
It's Not Working: Steeltown USA and Worker Ownership
In the late 1970s American manufacturing was in extreme difficulty. The Carter administration turned to a series of radical (for the American government) new inititatives including letting workers buy their workplaces when the owners wanted to pull out.
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.
The History of the Workers' Unemployment Insurance Bill
Submitted by Marx-lover on Aug 23 2018 00:25
In this article I tell the story of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, both to fill a gap in our historical knowledge and because it resonates in our own time of troubles and struggles.
Universal Basic Income
Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 17 2018 13:57
UBI is gaining traction amongst the capitalist class because it presents a last-ditch ploy to maintain ‘social peace’ and undermine a collective working class fight back in the economic turbulence to come. Not so much a “utopia for realists” as a dystopian reformist panacea in the face of declining ‘economic growth’, wages, services and general quality of life.
