Thursday, 25 April , 2024

Working Class

The Suburbs and the Revolt – Gilets Jaunes et Banlieue

"Gilets jaunes" et banlieue : y aller ou pas 21/02/2019 Ils viennent - ou pas - à des réunions de quartier aux allures de grand débat...

Samir Amin at 80: An Introduction and Tribute

By John Bellamy Foster Oct 01, 2011 Samir Amin was born in Cairo in 1931, and studied within the French educational system in Egypt (Lycée Français...

The New Service Proletariat

by Ricardo Antunes Apr 01, 2018 In recent decades, the spread of information technology, industrial automation, and other innovations has inspired visions of a coming “postindustrial...

Power, Socialism and Bureaucracy (a classic text)

The opposition will always retain as one of its merits, as against the party, a merit which nothing can remove, the fact that it has, in good time, sounded the alarm on the terrible decline of the spirit of activity of the working classes, and on their increasing indifference towards the destiny of the dictatorship of the proletariat and of the Soviet state.

Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Reality of Mining in Brazil

Mining is the activity that causes the greatest amount of death among workers in Brazil, as reported by the Ministry of Labour (MTE). In addition to mutilation, death and serious illness directly caused by work, the main mining states in Brazil —Goias, Minas Gerais and Pará— have became the most dangerous ones.

Britain on the brink – part one

We publish this article by the British Marxists of Socialist Appeal, because we believe it’s a very important one, in order for someone to...