"It’s not fair, living this shitty life, the workers said in meetings, in groups at the gates. All the stuff, all the wealth that we make is ours. Enough. We can’t stand it any more, we can’t just be stuff too, goods to be sold. Vogliamo tutto — We want everything."
An excerpt from Kim Moody's introduction to his classic book An Injury to All, which exposes the roots of modern “business unionism” and the causes of its decline.
Craig Gent analyses the role of unions and potential for social movements in creating a workers'Â future without scarcity. Part of the Verso Roundtable on Automation and the Future of Work.Â
In Playing the Whore, sex workers' demands, too long relegated to the margins, take center stage: sex work is work, and sex workers' rights are human rights.
An essay from Communal Luxury by Kristin Ross
The following essay is by Gail Lewis and is taken from "Black Women's Employment and the British Economy" from Inside Babylon.
In State of Insecurity, Isabell Lorey explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious. In this extract she looks at care crisis and care strike.
An exclusive preview from Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights by Juno Mac and Molly Smith.
On Valentine's Day, Emma Dowling makes a powerful case for thinking about the structure of social relationships rather than simply 'the one'.