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Anti-capitalism

The Political Social Ontology of Astrology

Astrology has regained prominence as a resistance practice that challenges capitalist modernity. Matthew Cull and Nadia Mehdi ask: How might forms of thought inherent to astrological practice render us more, rather than less, susceptible to capitalist control?

Class struggle

Notes on America’s Railroads

Guy Miller explains the roots of Congressional strikebreaking in the railroad industry.

Photograph of a large, modern train station in England.
Class struggle

Tories Collapse Amidst a Growing Strike Wave

Raymond Morell writes about the latest wave of strikes across the United Kingdom, the failures of Tory austerity, and challenges facing the new movement.

Green-blue Casa Ejidal in an agrarian setting in Comonfort, Mexico
Anti-capitalism

Mexico’s Ejido Experiment

Richard Velázquez Perales shows that, while Mexico’s ejidos offer more liberated relations of productionm, they cannot resolve rural inequalities on their own.

Chicanx politics

Farah’s Fifty Years Later

Fifty years ago, thousands of garment workers along the US–Mexico border launched a two-year strike and boycott at Farah Manufacturing. Gabriel Solis draws lessons from their struggle for social movements on the border today.

A man working alone on a laptop at a white table in a room with rows of identical white tables.
Anti-capitalism

Working Alone

Douglas Young asks how a twenty-first century labor movement can develop the bonds required for robust anticapitalist organization in the face of reduced socialization while working?

Anti-capitalism

Payback Time

Kim Moody argues that the current economic conjuncture is among the most favorable for workers in decades. But might we see the organized militancy required to bring about better working conditions, wages, and contracts?

Anti-capitalism

Coming Home from the Mines

Robert Ovetz reflects on the centenary of the Kansas wildcat coal strikes, considering the role of the Amazon Army and reflecting on lessons to be drawn from this labor history.

COVID-19

Upticks, Waves, and Social Upsurge

Kim Moody explores the significance of Striketober 2021: what it means and, just as importantly, what it doesn’t.

A red rose is breaking through a solid white/grey background
Anti-capitalism

What Happened to the “Dirty Break”?

Charles Post puts the DSA’s current strategy in the context of the formation of independent worker’s parties in the United Kingdom and United States in the twentieth century.

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