Strike Wave News Today

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

The strike wave in the UK is part of an upsurge of struggle throughout Europe and internationally including a one-day national walkout by public sector workers in Portugal last week and stoppages by oil refineries workers in France and the Netherlands.

The CWU’s abject capitulation before Royal Mail—it did not even issue a legal challenge to the company’s anti-strike tactics—was the green light for Royal Mail bosses to commence a frontal onslaught on postal workers that amounts to a declaration of war.

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The May Fourth movement launched the Chinese upheavals of the 1920s - and the original, pre-Stalinist, revolutionary Chinese Communism This article argues that a renewed socialism for the 21st century will be based on independent working class politics. It uses the “Third Camp” as a formula for summing up this essential element for Marxist history and for current intervention in the class struggle. China represents a fertile example in both these respects.

The resurgence of the U.S. labor movement remains nascent, but working-class power is beginning to regain its footing.

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

The May Fourth movement launched the Chinese upheavals of the 1920s - and the original, pre-Stalinist, revolutionary Chinese Communism This article argues that a renewed socialism for the 21st century will be based on independent working class politics. It uses the “Third Camp” as a formula for summing up this essential element for Marxist history and for current intervention in the class struggle. China represents a fertile example in both these respects.

Steven Colatrella on the global wave of strikes and uprisings which has been the working class response to austerity measures pushed by national governments and global governance bodies like the IMF, G20 and the World Bank.