New Book: How the World Works – The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day
By Paul Cockshott. From Monthly Review Press: Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the econ
Workers of the World Unite (At Last)
By Ronaldo Munck, Mention the labor movement today, and activists might ask, “What movement?” Indeed, the vibrant lab
Why Kautsky Was Right (and Why You Should Care)
By Eric Blanc, Karl Kautsky’s vision for winning democratic socialism is more radical, and more relevant, than most le
Breaking Through: Towards Second-Generation Neo-Marxist Class Theory
By Dave Neilson, The neo-Marxist challenge to the orthodox Marxist approach opened up a period of exciting, but short-
On the relation between workers and socialists
By Julio Huato, The following reflections were written in response to a question that a former student of mine asked me a
Struggles New and Old: Yellow Vests, the French Revolution and 21-Century Anti-Capitalism
By Keith Mann, For over three months now in France, the gilet jaune or yellow vest revolt has mounted one of the biggest an
The Future Cannot Be Capitalist: Michael Yates talks about the Working Class
Michael D. Yates, author of several books, including the recently released Can the Working Class Change the World?, ta
Was the gravedigger thesis central to Marx’s theory of the working class?
By Matt Vidal, Received wisdom holds that history has proven Marx’s theory of the working class to be wrong. This claim h
New book: Can the Working Class Change the World?
By Michael D. Yates. From Monthly Review Press: One of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor, which wa
What Do Socialists Say About White Privilege?
The questions of understanding and fighting racism are central ones for socialists in the US. At the moment, there is a s
Paddy Quick: Do workers benefit from increased education?
By Paddy Quick, It is always been true that the earnings of those with more education are, on average, greater than the ea
Nancy Fraser: Marx and Feminism
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0448ptJ4Ic&w=676&h=380] Nancy Fraser on Marx’ and E
New Book: The Half-Life of Deindustrialization – Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring
By Sherry Lee Linkon. From University of Michigan Press: Starting in the late 1970s, tens of thousands of American ind
New Book: Class War, USA – Dispatches from Workers’ Struggles in American History
by Brandon Weber. From Haymarket Books: An engaging collection of riveting stories about working people in United Sta
Call for papers: Labor and History in the 21st Century
40th Annual North American Labor History Conference October 18-20, 2018 Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan Th
Call for Submissions: Special Issue On Mexico & Labor Movement
The editors of Journal of Labor and Society (LANDS) invite submissions for a special issue on the Mexican workers and la
Let Down by Reformists, Working-Class Iranians Join Protests
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl60vA0w_eQ&w=760&h=500] Thousands have taken to the stree
New Book: On New Terrain – How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War
By Kim Moody. From Haymarket Books: In his latest book, Kim Moody analyzes how recent changes in capitalism have altere
RRPE Call for Papers: Special Issue on Precarious and Informal Work
Special Issue Collective: Ronaldo Munck, Tamar Diana Wilson, Ipsita Chatterjee, Ron Baiman, Lucia Pradella, Carlos