Posts tagged: labour

The Widening Gap Between The Working Class and the Proletariat: A Conversation with Joshua Clover

Joshua Clover speaks with the IGDCast on contemporary struggles in the context of the conjuncture described in Riot. Strike. Riot.
The Only Way Out is Through: A Reply to Melinda Cooper

Kate Doyle Griffiths responds to Melinda Cooper's critique of Social Reproduction Theory.
The Walls of the WTO: A film by Ryan S. Jeffery and Quinn Slobodian

Watch The Walls of the WTO, a short film that revisits the history of twentieth-century ideas of the world economy through a single building: the Centre William Rappard on the shores of Lake Geneva.
Tony Benn: A Political Journey

In an extended 1982 conversation with the New Left Review editorial board, Tony Benn reviews his career in Parliament.
Mindful Bodies and Forces of Nature

Three recent moments of the revitalized women's movement can be understood as windows into three levels of analysis and action: individual, social, and political.
Power, Harassment, and Sexism Today

Linda Gordon's new introduction to her classic 1981 text "The Politics of Sexual Harassment."
Bread and Roses in West Virginia

Tithi Bhattacharya reports back from the West Virginia teachers' strike.
All Out to the School Strike

Oklahoma teachers have become the fifth body of school employees to walk out in the past two weeks, adding to fresh picket lines in West Virginia, Toronto, Illinois, and the UK.
Organizing in the Basement: The International Women's Strike

To build a movement that addresses the deep, structural forms of oppression faced by women, it is essential to build a feminism that is anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and on the side of all oppressed people.
West Virginia Teachers Call on All State Employees to Join Them At State House Tomorrow

They are fighting for three things: 1. A 5% raise; 2. A fully funded employee health fund (PEIA); 3. A political system that values public education more than gas and corporations.
Another Labor Movement: the West Virginia Teachers' Strike

The West Virginia Strike bears the fingerprints of resistance to virtually every malevolent feature of neoliberal capitalism.
Socializing Security, Unionizing Work: #MeToo as Our Moment to Explore Possibilities

To understand the political relationship between individual violation and collective response, we need to explore the theoretical pathways that connect particular harms to universal conditions.