The year 2019 is beginning with a wave of strikes, demonstrations and other manifestations of class struggle around the world. In France, the “yellow vest” protests are entering their 10th week, with ...
The Manifesto of the Communist Party by Marx and Engels famously begins with: “The history of all hither existing societies is the history of class struggles.” The United States is no exception, ...
An interview by Ryan Stanton of Joe Burns—a labour lawyer, union activist and bargaining negotiator since the 1990s—about where the US union movement has gone wrong and what needs to change. Burns ...
The great mystery of the neoliberal takeover of the American left lies in differing class outcomes being attributed to ideology. The liberal view of ideology is classless— the rich, PMC, working class ...
On Saturday, May 4, the International Committee of the Fourth International held the 2019 International Online May Day Rally, the sixth annual online May Day Rally held by the ICFI, the world ...
is either controlled by vested interests or too powerful in itself.” — Oxford Dictionary of Sociology The term “populism” has returned to the daily vocabulary of political pundits and analysts trying ...
As a central tenet of North Korea’s ideological foundation since its birth, class struggle has defined the paradigm of the development of the economy in the DPRK during each generation of the Kim ...
To understand events around the world today, one must think in terms of the class struggle. This sentence sounds like something that could be written by a doctrinaire Marxist. But it is nonetheless ...
The first thing to say is that there are various ways of referring to class. Often, when people talk about class, they talk in terms of cultural/sociological labels. For example, middle-class people ...
Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...
Most young South Africans can’t afford tuition fees and are left out of the higher education system. Kim Ludbrook/EPA Each year, hundreds of thousands of students enrol to study at South Africa’s ...