Tag: Labor
The Rank and File Strategy on New Terrain
Spectre editor Kate Doyle Griffiths reflects on Kim Moody’s rank and file strategy in this final part of a three-part essay, considering the rank and file strategy in relation to ongoing strategic debates on the US left.
Striking for Racial Justice
Dave Zirin talks about what led to the NBA players’ strike, where it can go from here, and its implications for the Black Lives Matter and labor movements.
Why China Isn’t Capitalist (Despite the Pink Ferraris)
Contra Eli Friedman, Richard Smith argues that China is not capitalist.
The Rank and File Strategy on New Terrain
Danyal Kade Doyle Griffiths rethinks the rank-and-file strategy in light of recent developments, arguing for the incorporation of social reproduction analyses in our strategic reflections.
Our Children Are in Crisis
A preschool teacher in Vermont writes about the calamity of going back to work in the fall.
Why China Is Capitalist
Eli Friedman argues that, as of the late 1970s, China has become a fully fledged capitalist nation-state complete with its own settler colonial projects. Friedman argues China’s economy is characterized by the law of value and the commodity-form.
Art Workers Rise Up
For too long, gatekeepers of the art world have spoken in the name of the sector’s most marginalized workers. But now these workers are taking back the narrative, linking antiracist mobilization to struggles in their own workplaces.
Passing the Whip to Bezos
Adrienne Williams speaking at Oakland Port Shutdown, June 19, 2020.
A Semester to Die For
In our latest dispatch, an English professor argues that plowing ahead with university reopening in the fall is akin to the Thatcherite mantra, “There is no alternative.”