A series of interviews with working class women from west London - Part 5
Living The Dream with the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Latest Living The Dream podcast - this episode is on the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Living The Dream is hosted at The Word From Struggle Street
Back to the Future: Rebranding Social Democracy
There are two ways to read Inventing the Future. One is a fairly innocent critique of the “post-68 left”, and an outline of how to build a desirable post-capitalist future through a flawed Gramscian framework. The other is a critique of working class self-activity, and a call for a benevolent class of technocrats who can gradually reform capitalism for the masses.
Anti-Semitism – rooting out oppression or ruling class hypocrisy?
Those who see the need to eliminate anti-Semitism should involve themselves in the struggle for a classless and nationless world. The current media circus about Parliamentary factions is totally removed from the necessary struggle to root out anti-Semitism through the struggle to destroy capitalism.
#marchforourlives: From liberal discourse to class analysis
Tragic events in Russia
Exactly a week after Putin’s “landslide” victory in the Russian Presidential election (March 18) a terrible fire broke out in the “Winter Cherry” shopping and entertainment centre of the Siberian city of Kemerovo. It killed more than 80 people, at least 40 of whom are children. Some are still missing. Appalling though Kemerovo was, it was not an isolated incident.
Education Strikes from West Virginia and Kenya to the UK
On Sunday March 25 the CWO held a meeting in Newcastle focussing on the recent educational strikes across the world. It was attended by students, academics and other university workers (some in the CWO, some not) who had participated in the recent pickets of Newcastle, York and Durham universities. A CWO comrade gave the following introduction.
The Poverty of Luxury Communism
Notes on Soviet Attitudes to Homosexuality
Italian Elections: there’s nothing more depressing in a desert of ideas and perspectives
Why is Gibraltar a focus of European conflict?
The settler-colonial control of Treaty in Aotearoa
Anarcho-syndicalist Trans-Feminism
The Peccadilloes of Gun Control Activism
Announcing our new affiliate: LibCom Venezuela
The working class doesn’t need borders in Ireland – or anywhere else
The ruling class in Britain is mired in problems of its own making. Ditching its own long-embedded choices, it stumbles towards Brexit and is abandoning half a century of its preferred strategy. [1] Predictably, an exceptionally intractable problem has developed about the national border in Ireland. The political factions that arranged and delivered the Brexit decision blithely ignored the fact that the border would become the frontier between the Irish Republic, a member of the EU (European Union), and the post-Brexit non-EU United Kingdom.
Living The Dream in the feminist moment
Interview with feminist writer Eleanor Robertson. This podcast is host at The Word From Struggle Street