Jacobin

[...] student uprising, anti-pipeline/fracking struggles, migrant justice work – and the labor movement? Dave Bleakney: I view it as currently mixed with hopeful possibilities. There is much to be [...]

[...] includes social movements and the emerging electoral party Québec solidaire. Yet the labor movement is not present in these debates. It seems more interested in aligning with powerful [...]

[...] his novels, Jailbird is perhaps Vonnegut’s clearest articulation of sympathies with the labor movement. He writes autobiographically about his early involvement in the socialist movement, [...]

[...] minority of which broke with the Cold War consensus that straitjacketed the rest of the labor movement. These antiwar unions helped to re­create a space for political action and debate in a [...]

[...] ;That is, does the share of income flowing to corporations and professional workers in the financial sector reflect their marginal contribution to the total value of social output, so that, if their [...]

[...] of the American empire. These dynamics are particularly pronounced in relation to the financial sector, the nerve center of global capitalism. The relationship between Wall Street and the key [...]

[...] a majority of seats in Iceland’s parliament, nationalized much of the nation’s financial sector, and offered debt forgiveness to huge numbers of struggling homeowners. While it may be [...]

[...] The British right’s posthumous attacks on Ralph Miliband may have revived his ideas for a new generation on the Left. The Daily Mail has scored [...]

[...] Leo Panitch on Ralph Miliband and fifty years of the Socialist Register. Perhaps the most notable feature of the Register& [...]

[...] Ralph Miliband was no patriot. He was a stern critic of the British ruling elite and its institutions. The [...]

[...] .  His stentorian tone on such matters grew out of his insistence on the centrality of class struggle. At the end of the day, class struggle meant exactly that: a war between the robbers and the [...]

[...] , unemployment, and labor markets were rife with the explicit language of class, even of class struggle, for that was the only way to make sense of those subjects in countries and periods where [...]

[...] example of the dynamic I wrote about some while back: the dialectical interplay between class struggle and technological development. I noted there that technology is two-sided under capitalism: [...]

[...] from the bigger, better cause, and that their grievances will be organically resolved through class struggle. Most Jacobin readers will recognize that the notion that Marxists reduce everything to [...]

[...] . In 1920, Keynes plucked Dobb from undergraduate obscurity and asked him to join the Political Economy Club, an invitation-only society reserved for the best of Cambridge’s aspiring [...]

[...] , “used to provide a training ground for young people who could learn the rudiments of political economy and organizational discipline, find suitable mates and play their role in reproducing the [...]

[...] a “moral” aspect: it is a grossly unfair and unjust state of affairs for the political economy to be structured to benefit one percent of the population at the expense of the other 99 [...]

[...] labor is people, and the freedom and welfare of the people is the proper subject of political economy. Of course, the apologists for capitalism insist that they are the ones looking out for the [...]

[...] the evolution of global capitalism itself. Fantasy author China Mieville has made a powerful case that engaging in the [...]

[...] Forbes / Jacobin) These are comments delivered at a panel on The Making of Global Capitalism by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin. Jacobin published a symposium on the volume [...]

[...] The Making of Global Capitalism marks the start of a project to construct a new historical materialist analysis of the [...]

[...] was shaken by the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia whose declared aim was to destroy global capitalism. Fear stalked the corridors of power in every capital and the presence of large numbers of [...]

[...] , barely regulated industry, rife with exploitation. But the industry is shifting. The Obama administration just closed a longstanding labor-law loophole to provide federal minimum wage and overtime [...]

[...] likely, or that it would be uniquely horrific, to see the value of using it to compel the Obama administration to explain the limits on the power it has claimed — to begin to identify whom it [...]

[...] by stupefication. Yet amid all of this, there was still one promise — that the Obama administration itself understood the moving parts. Once passed, the wonks and managers would deploy their [...]

[...] , momentum had been gathering in the GSOC organizing campaign, as the arrival of the Obama administration seemed to promise new appointees to the NLRB who, it was hoped, might reverse the Brown [...]