Arguments against Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party
We are in a period when the Labour Party is, again, pretending that it can protect people in Britain from the ravages of a crisis-ridden capitalist system. The best arguments against the Labour Party will arise when strikes, occupations and… Continue reading
The gang system in Coventry
The gang system
in Coventry
REG WRIGHT
REG WRIGHT is a Coventry engineering worker who has spent a life-time in the motor, aircraft and textile industries, One of the pioneers of the gang system in its present form, he has… Continue reading
Approaches to industrial democracy
Approaches to
industrial democracy
GEOFFREY OSTERGAARD
GEOFFREY OSTERGAARD, born at Staploe, Beds. 1926, lectures in political science at Birmingham University and was recently visiting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the author, with J. A. Banks, of… Continue reading
Festung Europa: Discrimination Against Roma Rife In Eastern Europe
Roma demonstrate in Czech Republic. Photo taken by author
The tragedy and desperation of this summer’s Mediterranean human trafficking has slowly drawn blood even from the stone of David Cameron’s largely retiring isolationism, and united an unsteady Europe in sharing the… Continue reading
Education, equality, opportunity
Education, equality, opportunity
John Ellerby
ULTIMATELY THE SOCIAL FUNCTION of education is to perpetuate society: it is the socialising function. Society guarantees its future by rearing its children in its own image. In traditional society the peasant rears his sons… Continue reading
Book Spotlight: Abolish Restaurants
Abolish Restaurants cover: prole.info
Author: prole.info
Originally published:2006
Anyone who has ever worked in the food service industry know that restaurants are, generally, dens of misery. Abolish Restaurants doesn’t shy away from this. The short book is riddled with personal… Continue reading
From The Land Of Proudhon 5
Situationist International. Raoul Vaneigem In Dialogue With Gérard Berréby. Nothing Has an End, All is a Beginning.
Raoul Vaneigem (1934) is a Belgian author and radical social critic. After grammar school, at the age of seventeen he went to… Continue reading
From the Land of Proudhon, vol. 4
Karl Marx: Not Infallible
The French Marxist philosopher Étienne Balibar, a pupil of Louis Althuser, published in 1993 The Philosophy of Marx. This text is now, after twenty years, republished. In a new introduction, he asks”: what is the… Continue reading
2015: A Time for Outrage?
Two years have passed since one of the great political and social thinkers of our time departed this world.
On 26 February 2013 Stephane Hessel died at the age of 95. Hessel enjoyed a long life, from his birth in… Continue reading
Hipsterphobia Sails Close to Homophobia and Gendered Norms [3/3]
This the final article from Cava Sunday’s blog on anti-hipster politics, reposted with permission.
This has been really difficult to write. I have been poring over it for days trying to make what seemed to be gutteral, knee-jerk reactions seem… Continue reading →