In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels sketched what has come to be known as the gravedigger thesis, widely believed to propose that the objective conditions of capitalism would inevitably produce a revolutionary working class which would overthrow… Continue Reading
A review of Joshua Clover, Riot. Strike. Riot: The new era of uprisings Verso (2016), £20 Joshua Clover identifies a cycle of struggle occurring over the centuries which he categorises respectively as riot, strike and “riot prime”. Riots first occurred… Continue Reading
A review of Hao Ren, Eli Friedman and Zhongjin Li (editors), China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance (Haymarket, 2016),£15.99 China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance is an exciting and illuminating book focused on the labour struggles waged by… Continue Reading
When I wrote “Why Are There So Few Strikes?”1 I expected that it would generate some discussion. I was not prepared, though, for the huge number of words and length of time taken up by responses. In addition to numerous… Continue Reading
During the blisteringly hot summer of 1976 a group of Asian workers, predominantly women, walked out on strike at a small factory in north west London. Most were recently arrived migrants from Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya and were as unlikely… Continue Reading
Technical advances in new information and communication technologies (ICT) have led to debates on the left about the impact of digitalisation on the world of work. Alongside digitalisation and advances in interactive web-based communication, we have also witnessed new advances… Continue Reading