Tag: Labor
Labor’s Upsurge and the Search for Workers’ Power
Kim Moody writes about how we should understand the UAW strike against the backdrop of a larger wave.
Germany 1923
Part two of Sean Larson’s reconstruction of the failed German Revolution of 1923 and the episode’s lessons for revolutionaries today.
Germany 1923
Part one of Sean Larson’s reconstruction of the failed German Revolution of 1923 and the episode’s lessons for revolutionaries today.
Popular Protest and Labor Insurgency in Iran
Shirin Kamangar analyzes the strengths and the weaknesses of Iran’s movement cycle.
Marching to a Different Drummer
Susan Ferguson explains how an analytic focus on time and temporalities might help us better understand how capitalism concretely conditions the work of life-making.
“We Won!”: University Professors Strike in Québec City
This February, thirteen-hundred faculty members walked off the job at Québec City’s Université Laval for nearly five weeks, winning a number of concessions from the university including pay raises and improvements to faculty workloads. Rhiannon Maton interviews Nat Nesvaderani about life on the picket line and the lessons learned for future struggles.
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?
Notes on America’s Railroads
Guy Miller explains the roots of Congressional strikebreaking in the railroad industry.
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.
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.