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Class, power and revolution in Sudan

Posted on 28th March 2020 by Richard Donnelly

From Algiers to Beirut and Baghdad to Khartoum, it appears that revolution is once again “the choice of the people”—as a slogan echoed by tens of thousands on protests in Sudan puts it.1 Meanwhile, the temperature of social and political… Continue Reading →

Article Africa, Arab revolution, development, strategy, the working class

Marxist politics at work during the long boom and its breakdown

Posted on 2nd January 2019 by Camilla

Roger Cox was among the earliest members of the Socialist Review Group (SRG), founded by Tony Cliff in the 1950s, a group that would later evolve into the International Socialists (IS) and then the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). As one… Continue Reading →

Article, Interview the working class, Tony Cliff, Trade unions

Was Marx wrong about the working class? Reconsidering the gravedigger thesis

Posted on 14th April 2018 by Camilla

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 →

Article Karl Marx, the working class

Understanding the riot/strike cycle

Posted on 5th April 2017 by Camilla

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 →

Book reviews Riots, the working class

Striking back in the “world’s factory”

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

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 →

Book reviews China, Strikes, the working class

Once more on strikes: a reply to critics

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

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 →

Feedback Strikes, the working class

Here to stay, here to fight: How Asians transformed the British working class

Posted on 19th December 2016 by Camilla

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 →

Article Anti-racism, Grunwick, the working class

Into the digital void?

Posted on 7th October 2016 by Camilla

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 →

Article digital labour, the working class
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