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Taking back labour: Workers’ resistance and factory okupations in turkey
Labour struggles of workers continually strain against the limits of legality and labour union domestication. If salaried work, as traditionally understood, is not the exclusive domain of capitalist exploitation, it nevertheless remains central. And as workers discover, at times literally … Continue reading
Down with labour: Anselm Jappe
… there is no longer a criticism of capitalism possible that is not accompanied by a criticism of labour. The criticism of labour is not a “luxury” destined exclusively for rich countries. On the contrary, it is even more pressing … Continue reading
Work will set you free: The art of Santiago Grasso
(Illustration by Santiago Grasso) A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. …This delusion is the love of work, pushed even to the exhaustion of the vital force of the individual … Continue reading
The tides of change: spain’s “mareas”
On the 17th of February, over half a million people took to the streets of spain’s cities in a protest against cuts to the budget of the country’s public health services. It was but only the most recent example of … Continue reading
La Marcha Negra de los mineros en España
On the 22 of June, coal miners from the Asturias, Castilla and León, and Aragón set off on a march on Madrid, in protest against the closing of the mines. Video and text about the strike and the march … Continue reading
Between Protest and Creation: 15M’s spain
How do we stop making capitalism? How do we free our doing from the labour by which we create and re-create a world that is killing us? John Holloway, Change the World Without Taking Power The Long … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Asturian Miners' Strike, greece, labour, LGBT, spain, Spanish Revolution, Strike
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Occupied Companies in Argentina — An assessment
While this article is not very recent, it discusses a situation which remains relevant and will remain relevant: first, because if a revolt or insurrection is to become a revolution with some chance of sucess it will have to address … Continue reading
Salute! Bangladeshi Workers Resist
Some of us used to say that the Revolution will be international or not at all. While we don't expect the revolution to happen at once, globally, linking the struggles as they happen (and at all times trying to create … Continue reading
All is possible: strike, protest, occupy
The Austurian coal miners’ strike, called at the end of May by the principal unions representing the workers (CC.OO and UGT), indefinitely, to contest a brutal reduction in state support for the sector (over 60%), continues with what can only … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, labour, Occupy Oakland, spain, Spanish Revolution, Strike
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For May Day
To celebrate May Day is not only to remember working class struggles of the past, but also to remember that what victories were had were born of struggle and that they are held fast to only to the extent that … Continue reading →