Tag: Class struggle
The UAW Needs a Strategy for the Future of Manufacturing
The corporate reversal on electric vehicle production is restructuring the US auto
industry and creating worker insecurity faster than the UAW can fight back. The long-standing
culture of collaboration between the union and corporations has been devastating to labor’s
power. Will the UAW reverse its decline by stepping up to fight over the future of manufacturing,
or continue to take a back seat to capital? Labor needs new strategies that take on
corporations on a class basis, focus fights on worker control alongside bread-and-butter issues,
and set a course for collectively controlled manufacturing that serves the working class.
The Lovers’ International
Emma Heaney reviews Alex Stoffel’s Eros and Empire.
LA’s Left-Liberal Electoral Problem
Promise Li argues that Los Angeles’s left has grown stronger than ever, but without political independence, its electoral gains may never translate into working-class power.
What Happened at Harvester?
Using International Harvester’s McCormick works as a lens, Robin Peterson chronicles over a century of class struggle in the United States.
Service with a Scowl
Sarah Brouillette reviews Annie McClanahan’s Beneath the Wage.
Worker Experiments in New Kinds of Politics
John Schultz challenges the “official history”‘s naturalization of the links between the Democratic Party and the labor movement. Turning to the historical record, Schultz argues the 1930s featured numerous worker experiments in independent labor politics.
Municipal Socialism’s “YIMBY” Problem
Ben Rosenfield and Holden Taylor challenge technocratic Abundance-style solutions to the New York “housing crisis” and argue for a militant movement with tenants as the protagonists.
Class Struggle in France in 2025
John Mullen analyzes the instability of French national politics and how Marxists and revolutionaries have the space to intervene in the France Insoumise.
There Are No Ceasefires on Stolen Land
Tithi Bhattacharya challenges recent criticisms of the Palestinian solidarity movement from Eric Blanc, Bashir Abu-Manneh, and Hoda Mitwally, arguing that our movement need not embrace Liberal Zionism.
Class Revenge Fanfiction
Tish Turl writes about the anticapitalist class politics of fanfiction.