China’s workers seem set to get the right to strike.
For the last 30 years haven’t had this right as apparently in China they had “eradicated problems between the proletariat and enterprise owners”. The breakneck industrialization of the last twenty years has certainly changed that.
Chinese rapid industrial growth has been based on making itself the workshop [...]
Howard Zinn is probably best known for his book A Peoples History of the United States. Having sold more 1.7 million copies world-wide it still apparently sells 100,000 copies a year.
It is a classic of “history from below” and tells the story of the US from the point of view rarely [...]
The disintegration of Social Democracy in Europe, both organizationally and as a political project, presents both opportunities and problems for socialists and revolutionaries.
The Labour Party in Britain, and Social Democratic parties elsewhere in Europe have politically dominated the working class and the the labour movement for a most of the last century. Where mass Communist [...]
Film of strikers demonstrating in Shush, Khuzestan province, Southern Iran
On 16 June 2000 workers at the state-owned Haft Tapeh Sugar Mill met in a general meeting to form their own independent union. They have now been on stike for 42 days and despite mounting repression they remain unbowed.
This is the culmination [...]
Who says the working class is dead? Certainly no one in South Korea. Following a million strong demonstration last week against his government, President Lee Myung-bak is now facing a massive strike wave. Despite being elected in a landslide last December his neo-liberal administration is already in deep trouble as resistance mounts to pension reform, [...]
Continuing in our countdown to Mark Steel’s Vive la Revolution gig for Southwark Respect on 17th July we will be tracking the steps to the French Revolution.
For more information on the gig visit http://www.myspace.com/southlondonrespect
To buy tickets http://www.seetickets.com/see/event.asp?e|artist=Mark+Steel&e|promoter=6444&filler1=see
Following the Third Estate’s declaration on 17 June the King had prohibited the Third Estate from meeting. On 20 [...]
David Harvey’s A Short History of Neoliberalism is one of the best, if not the best, short introduction to the origins and nature of neolibearlsim. It’s concise and easy to read.
There is a talk he did on it on Youtube in five parts. The first is above.
In the lead up to Mark Steel’s Vive la Revolution gig for Southwark Respect on 17th July we will tracking the steps to revolution.
For more information on the gig visit http://www.myspace.com/southlondonrespect
To buy tickets http://www.seetickets.com/see/event.asp?e|artist=Mark+Steel&e|promoter=6444&filler1=see
The King, Louis XIV, had called the Estates General together to resolve the country’s financial crisis. The population was represented by the [...]
Professor David Harvey, anthropologist and geographer at City University of New York, and author of such excellent books as a Brief History of Neoliberalism and The New Imperialism, is putting his course on reading Capital on line.
The first two lecture are up already.
Apparently it’s very good.
http://davidharvey.org/
In this Youtube video Paolo Pietrangeli sings his classic song of rebellion Contessa across the forty or so years since he wrote it.
It was one of the great hymns of the movement of workers and students that erupted in 1968-69 and was to shake Italian society for the next ten years.
He [...]
