Beverly Silver News Today

Photo: Salvador Allende addressing a massive crowd of supporters In September 1970, Salvador Allende became the first Marxist president democratically

Kim Moody reviews John Womack Jr.'s book "Labor Power and Strategy" and responses to his contributions, focused on the significance of workers' positional power in labor struggles.

Article: The Cycles and Spirals of Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of Italy, The Netherlands, Britain and Yankeedom - How long has capitalism existed? Has it always been with us all the way back to tribal societies or a product of the modern age? Is there any pattern to its evolution or is it random? Can capitalism go on forever or does it have fatal internal weaknesses? Why does capitalism grow flush in some countries, then die out and re-ignite elsewhere? What is happening in the world-system in...

Aufheben's excellent account of the development and transformation of China and the Chinese working class from the time of Mao until today.

Beverly Silver traces the growth of workers power in the auto industry and the resultant outsourcing of industry to lower wage areas of the globe, where workers organised again and fought for better conditions, effectively spreading a militant workers' movement across the globe.

The top ten reasons to be optimistic, politically, no matter how bad the situation seems at present.

Russia's political capitalists waged war in order to survive as a class, to continue accumulating wealth through the exploitation of the state – (...)

Gongchao on the attempts of the Chinese state to handle growing unrest and struggle.

Aufheben's excellent account of the development and transformation of China and the Chinese working class from the time of Mao until today.

Wildcat interview with Steve Wright, author of Storming Heaven. Class composition and struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism (Pluto Press 2002).