Noam Chomsky on the State-Corporate Complex: A Threat to Freedom and Survival
Noam Chomsky was called, by the New York Times: “Arguably the most important intellectual alive today” and, for a man so closely aligned with anachism, the fact that he is cited more than any other...
View ArticleUnion Leadership Stands in the Way of Working People in Wisconsin
By John Jacobsen: Political rights do not originate in parliaments; they are, rather, forced upon parliaments from without. And even their enactment into law has for a long time been no guarantee of...
View ArticleEzequiel Adamovsky: Anti-Capitalism
By Ezequiel Adamovsky: An excerpt from a new book forthcoming from Seven Stories Press. [scribd id=56838617 key=key-2fnhs44p0ba0qn2pp5ry mode=book]
View ArticleAnna Marchi: The Worse Part Of Italy – A Post PC Story
By Anna Marchi: This is a post PC story. It’s not a post Personal Computer story, it’s not a post Italian Communist Party story (though it may well be), it is a post Political Correctness story. Post...
View ArticleOwen Jones: The Working-Class Have Been Purged From Our Screens. It’s Time To...
By Owen Jones: It would be easy, but wrong, to get dewy-eyed about a golden age when working-class people were properly respected, let alone glorified. Working-class people barely got a mention in...
View ArticleAlex Snowdon: Class, Work And Politics: Review of Chavs by Owen Jones
By Alex Snowdon: ‘Chavs’ is a much talked-about, even fashionable, book. It is therefore tempting to decry it as over-hyped rubbish. Frustratingly for the polemicist in me, it is actually very good...
View ArticleElaine Graham-Leigh: The New Condition Of The Working Class
By Elaine Graham-Leigh Source: Counterfire The debate about the nature of the contemporary working class is critical for anyone who wants to see radical change. Elaine Graham-Leigh reviews two...
View ArticleBrian Alexander: The Rich Are Different – And Not In A Good Way
By Brian Alexander Psychologist and social scientist Dacher Keltner says the rich really are different, and not in a good way: Their life experience makes them less empathetic, less altruistic, and...
View ArticleLeft Eye On Books: The Working Class and Occupy Wall Street
By Left Eye On Books Union membership doesn’t increase much due to patient organizing work, as sociologist Dan Clawson explained in “The Next Upsurge : Labor and the New Social Movements”, published...
View ArticleDSG: Class Rules Everything Around Me / WOT, NO DEMANDS?
By Deterritorial Support Group A 1% shift can have massive repercussions in a global economy- a 1% shift in theTED spread signifies a looming disaster for liquidity, a 1% rise in interest rates can...
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