Tag: Labor
Agents of Repression
Cinzia Arruzza uses a thought experiment to argue that the police don’t deserve the protections of working class solidarity.
For a Grad Workers’ Strike
Eli B. Lichstenstein argues that graduate workers must be at the forefront of a strike against cops, austerity, and the capitalist university.
Sympathy Won’t Win Us Better Conditions
A care worker writes about the struggle for PPE, wages, and job security in the United Kingdom.
The Necropolitics of Heroism
Gediminas Lesutis and Jon Las Heras interrogate the politics of heroizing “essential” workers, arguing that our applause is no substitute for their health—and potentially their lives.
Crisis and the Global Factory at the US-Mexico Border
In light of the precarity of maquiladoras, Gabrielle Solis looks at the condition of workers along the border during the pandemic.
On Class Suicide
A younger comrade interviews Paul McLennan on the continuing relevance of his experience industrializing in the 1970s
From “Class Suicide” to Working-Class Rebirth
Paul McLennan, a former STO member, describes his experience committing class suicide and industrializing in the American South in the 1970s
Class, Race, and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century US South
Charles Post interviews Michael Goldfield about his new book The Southern Key.
NYC DOE: The Death of Educators
John Wilson, a NYC high school teacher, reports on the Department of Education’s deadly response to COVID-19, and the extreme attack on public education amidst the pandemic.
The COVID-19 Crisis and the End of the “Low-skilled” Worker
Mark Bergfeld and Sara Farris on the COVID-19 crisis and its dismantling of hierarchies of skill as an opening for class struggle.