USA: Overview of Auto Workers' Strike
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 12 2020 21:24
The article here, from our ICT affiliate in the United States, evaluates the longest strike by US car workers in a decade. After six weeks, members of the United Auto Workers voted for the union’s deal with General Motors.
The Iranian Revolution at the Twilight of the Workers' Council
Submitted by mobarez on Jan 3 2020 16:18
A short history and analysis of the Iranian Revolution with a focus on the role of the working class and the rise and fall of the shoras workers councils.
Latin America Burns between Revolt and Repression
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 3 2020 16:13
For decades Latin America was the United States’ "backyard", although more recently it has also been seen as a den of "socialists". Today it is undergoing a deep crisis that spares neither the big countries such as Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, nor the small ones such as Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.
The Second World War: A Marxist History
Submitted by Marx-lover on Dec 28 2019 07:04
A summary of an exemplary work of Marxist scholarship. (More such summaries here.)
Down But Not Out: The Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression
Submitted by Marx-lover on Dec 27 2019 00:50
This is a Ph.D. dissertation in the field of U.S. labor history. See www.wrightswriting.com/ for more Marxist scholarship.
The Worker and the Government - Max Stirner
Short excerpt from Stirners Unique and its Property focussing on the proletariat and its relationships with government.
The Self-Organised Struggle of Liverpool Couriers Highlights the Difficulties of Organising in the 'Gig Economy'
Submitted by Internationalis... on Dec 3 2019 09:24
Deliveroo was founded in 2013 by Will Shu, an investment banker, and Greg Orlowski, a software developer. It was a simple idea whereby customers place food orders through an app or on the website, and couriers, with the app on their mobile phones, deliver the food from the restaurant to the customer. However, like any technology (no matter how life changing) utilised under capitalism, in practice Deliveroo means exploitation for the workers on whose labour the success of the company depends.
France: Following the SNCF Mechanics' Struggle, The Fight in the Hospitals Shows the Way
Submitted by Internationalis... on Nov 27 2019 19:19
In spring 2019, a crisis on an unprecedented scale was sparked in French hospitals. The emergency services went on strike in massive numbers. Barely three months from its beginnings on 18 March, in the Saint-Antoine Hospital in Paris, it had spread to around a hundred establishments all across France by July. The movement will not stop spreading as long as the situation remains untenable. In September, the number of emergency services on strike was 239, or more than half of all services. This mobilisation has not died down and even rose to 267 services on strike in mid-October.
Perspectives for the Coming Period
Submitted by Internationalis... on Nov 22 2019 14:36
Statement of the Internationalist Communist Tendency
Balance sheet and perspective of the current proletarian struggles all over the world
Submitted by Guerre de Classe on Nov 14 2019 16:49
This past year we see revolts one after the other all over the world: revolts that lead Macron to visit the bunkers of the Elysée, that make Lenin Moreno move the seat of the government to Guayaquil, that assault the barracks and the headquarters of bourgeois parties in Iraq while reviving the memory of the insurrection of 1991, that topple one after the other prime ministers in Haiti or that plant a black flag in the Hong Kong parliament. The world bourgeoisie is beginning to get afraid.
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