Category: Anti-capitalism

The (End) Work Zone: Tales of Spontaneous Rebellion in the Workplace

End Work Zone

The normal course of a person’s working life typically produces a plethora of stories where the boss got one over on the employees and faced no retribution; countless unfair firings, anomalies with the paycheck, bullying, mistreatment and abuse. Hidden within, …

Posted: July 27th, 2015 under Anti-capitalism, Labor, Labor Pains, Solidarity.

Modern Slavery and the Triumph of Capitalism, Part 2: Modern Slavery in the USA

By Mike Kolhoff

“Forced labor is most prevalent in five sectors of the US economy: prostitution and sex services (46%); domestic service (27%); agriculture (10%); sweatshop/factory work (5%); and restaurant and hotel work (4%).” David Batstone, Not For Sale: The …

Posted: January 8th, 2015 under Anti-capitalism, Economy, History, Labor.

What is Class Oppression? Who is the Working Class?

By Tom Wetzel

Occupy Wall Street highlighted class inequality in the USA through its talk about the concentration of income and wealth in the hands of “the 1 percent.” This does put a bullseye on the ruling class in our …

Posted: November 15th, 2014 under Anti-capitalism, Economy, Ideas, Labor, Syndicalism.

Modern Slavery and the Triumph of Capitalism, (Part One)

By Mike Kolhoff

“The ideological push for the “science” of free trade has unleashed enormously destructive forces for social and cultural change that have wreaked havoc on the populations of developing countries. Rapid urbanization and restructuring of agricultural activities, upon …

Posted: November 14th, 2014 under Anti-capitalism, Economy, Labor.

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