Subjects Archives: Class

  • Not War but Class War graffiti in Turin.

    Fighting inflation excuse for class warfare

    SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. A class war is being waged in the name of fighting inflation. All too many central bankers are raising interest rates at the expense of working people’s families, supposedly to check price increases.

  • The ruling class in Australia

    The ruling class in Australia

    Who rules Australia? The politicians, the ultra-wealthy class of capitalists or the high-powered bureaucrats who run the state—the military generals, court justices, heads of government departments and so on? The answer is all three. Together, they make up the Australian ruling class.

  • Who’s middle class?

    Who’s middle class?

    Of all classes, the middle class is the one with the most people clamouring to be part of it. Many members of the ruling class prefer the label “middle” to one that makes capitalist dominance so overt. Many workers think that having a middle-income job by default puts them in the middle class. And people who want to downplay the working class’s revolutionary potential prefer to say,

  • Modern Working Class

    Australia’s modern working class

    More than 160 years ago, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, in the “Communist Manifesto,” described workers as those “who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital”.

  • 1974 Walter Rodney and his family returned to Guyana

    A difficult return – race, class, and politics in Rodney’s Guyana

    In 1974 Walter Rodney and his family returned to Guyana. Rodney immediately faced a country divided between the Indian and African working class, and the brutal and divisive regime of Forbes Burnham. Rodney produced an impressive body of historical work which provided a Marxist explanation for the divide of the country’s working people. Chinedu Chukwudinma continues the story of Rodney’s revolutionary life.

  • Three Steps to Black Liberation

    Three steps to Black liberation

    If history should be any teacher, it has taught us this: the state has no interest in serving the needs of the masses of Black people in this country, who are poor and working class.

  • Source: Fightback

    Amazon Labor Union and the awakening of the American working class

    The United States is the most powerful capitalist nation in the world. Socialism cannot ultimately achieve victory without the success of the American working class. The struggles we are seeing now are just the beginning of the awakening of this colossus that will change the course of history.

  • Payday Lender in Durham, North Carolina, photo by Don Nonini

    Scoring the U.S. working class: expropriation and digitalization

    Working-class people in the United States are now at a turning point–whether to compliantly return to the pre-Covid conditions capital set for them, or to shift toward a new militancy toward capitalism.

  • Capital

    The People of the Book

    By “People of the Book” it meant principally Jews and Christians. These book-based religions were an intellectual innovation. The book-basis gave Christianity and Islam an expansive power and a cultural breadth that earlier religions had not had.

  • Capitalism

    Capitalism: great for the rich, shit for the poor

    Capitalism has generated the highest level of economic inequality in human history.

  • Class Struggle and Freedom Beyond Colonial Borders

    Class struggle and freedom beyond colonial borders

    The global COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief how truly interconnected our world is, how superficial colonial borders are, and thus how the struggle for freedom must link localized organizing to broader global insurgencies.

  • Global share of wealth by wealth group, Credit Suisse, 2021

    World Inequality Report: Class divide explains more than regional divisions

    The report clearly shows how the class divide has become relatively more important than the regional divide in determining global inequality. This simply tells that in today’s world where one is born and brought up has relatively less impact than in which class the person belongs to in explaining relative earnings and wealth status.

  • Azov Battalion in Kyiv Photo: Sopa Images / SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty

    What does it have to do with Black folks?

    The worldview of liberals usually ends at the borders of the U.S. settler-state until they are mobilized by the oligarchy to provide ideological cover for the latest imperialist intrigue. This is as true for the liberal Black “misleadership” class as it is for Euro-American liberals.

  • Tariq Ali speaking on Subversive Festival 2013 in Zagreb

    Tariq Ali: ‘Democracy is largely a set of rituals now’

    “There is no socialist blueprint. If you think there is a socialist blueprint, then you will only be a utopian. The formation of economic policies has to be done with the collaboration of those on whose behalf you are going to change structures.”

  • Colombia 2021:The Year in which State Terrorism Became Visible

    Colombia 2021: The year in which State terrorism became visible

    The State and the ruling classes of Colombia, which constitute the counterinsurgent power bloc, have made use of a series of fallacies to hide the terrorist nature of the State in this country, consolidated as such for decades.

  • Mushroom Workers March on May Day in Kennett Square (May 01, 2007)

    Are there “foreigners” in the U.S. working class?

    Politicians and the media work hard to give the impression that millions of low-wage workers are constantly seeking entry into the U.S. Most U.S. news consumers would probably be astonished to learn that the undocumented population here actually declined during the years from 2008 to 2016. It continued to decline at least until 2019.

  • Alphaeus Hunton, Dorothy Hunton, Paul Robeson, and W.E.B. Du Bous

    Colonialism: a cancer on the planet

    The acuity of Hunton’s insights, seen in retrospect so many decades later, offers astounding reading. Throughout, he has one clear aim: to let the peoples of the struggling masses in the emerging nations seize their own destiny.

  • Building and clothmaking were among the largest industrial occupations in the 17th century.

    Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class

    Deprived of land and common rights, the English poor were forced into wage-labor. CAPITAL VERSUS COMMONS, 4

  • Workers at Deere, a farm machinery company, on the picket line in October.

    The right is surging in the U.S., but there’s cause for hope

    Emma Norton speaks to Sherry Wolf and Joel Geier, two long-time revolutionary socialists in the United States, about the turmoil, contradictions and possibilities of the U.S. political situation.

  • Earth - man

    Environment, human rights and class power

    Environment is human right, said and resolved a recent UN meet. It’s a reiteration of an already discussed issue–essential to all of the human society.