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The Afl-Cio’S Foreign Policy Program: Where Historians Now Stand, Kim Scipes
The Afl-Cio’S Foreign Policy Program: Where Historians Now Stand, Kim Scipes
Class, Race and Corporate Power
The struggle to end the AFL-CIO’s foreign policy program, as part of the effort to build global labor solidarity, began in the late 1960s but has qualitatively escalated since 2010. This paper details these efforts, while showing the advances over the preceding ten years. Interestingly, while labor historians have provided some important contributions in the past, they have refused to engage with the work of Kim Scipes, a major writer in the field, ignoring his path-breaking work yet supporting some of his major claims. The question is asked whether historians in this sub-discipline are being taught to over-prioritize archival works …
A Left Critique Of Class Reductionism, Ronald W. Cox
A Left Critique Of Class Reductionism, Ronald W. Cox
Class, Race and Corporate Power
An overview of three recent books examining the politics of class and race provide lessons about how to avoid a “class reductionist” politics that interferes with building a multiracial and inclusionary working class movement.
Revolution In The High Castle: Interpretation & The Political Implications Of Hope, Bryant W. Sculos
Revolution In The High Castle: Interpretation & The Political Implications Of Hope, Bryant W. Sculos
Class, Race and Corporate Power
This essay explores the politics of Amazon Prime's The Man in the High Castle by focusing primarily on how the series deals with the politics of hope, as well as how certain events in the narrative condition or exclude certain potential interpretations. The crux of the argument here is that the show tends towards a revolutionary conclusion, despite also bearing the marks of the depraved society this work emerged within.
Why The Labour Party Lost The British 2019 General Election: Social Democracy Versus Neoliberalism And The Far Right, Jamie Gough
Why The Labour Party Lost The British 2019 General Election: Social Democracy Versus Neoliberalism And The Far Right, Jamie Gough
Class, Race and Corporate Power
After Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the British Labour Party in 2015, the party for the first time took a stance against austerity. The new leadership proposed to raise investment and productivity; nationalise some utilities; end privatisations; improve trade union rights, wages and conditions; a Green New Deal creating a million jobs; a rise in taxation of capital and the rich, to fund a 10% rise in spending on public services and benefits; consequent expansion and improvements of services, better wages and conditions, some services made free; large scale council house building, and re-regulation of private renting. This programme …
Two Decades Of Imperial Failure: Theorizing U.S. Regime Change Efforts In Venezuela From Bush Ii To Trump, Timothy M. Gill, Joseph Marshall Brown
Two Decades Of Imperial Failure: Theorizing U.S. Regime Change Efforts In Venezuela From Bush Ii To Trump, Timothy M. Gill, Joseph Marshall Brown
Class, Race and Corporate Power
Former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez ushered in the Pink Tide and the rise of the left in Latin America at the turn of the 21st century. Chávez initially won presidential elections in 1998 based on the promise of participatory democracy and tackling economic inequality, and thereafter by championing 21st Century Socialism. From the beginning, Chávez challenged U.S. global leadership by condemning its vision for the world and by cultivating an anti-imperial nexus of allies. This pattern has continued under current President Nicolás Maduro. In response, the U.S. has opposed the Venezuelan socialists throughout three successive presidential administrations: Bush II, Obama, …
How The Academy Looks At Marx Is All Wrong, The Point However Is To Change It, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
How The Academy Looks At Marx Is All Wrong, The Point However Is To Change It, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
Class, Race and Corporate Power
In what follows, I note how two standard contemporary reference works describe Marx and then contrast those to Marx’s “auto-bibliography” which presents a different set of texts as important to the author’s self-conception. I then focus on one of the latter set of texts and suggest an approach to understanding Marx that emphasizes his identity as a revolutionary theorist and which, perhaps helps us better understand why he did not give priority to working out a theory of the state in a traditional theoretical manner. At the very least, I hope that this discussion will draw attention to the priority …
What The New Deal Can Teach Us About Winning A Green New Deal, Martin Hart-Landsberg
What The New Deal Can Teach Us About Winning A Green New Deal, Martin Hart-Landsberg
Class, Race and Corporate Power
Growing awareness of our ever-worsening climate crisis has boosted the popularity of movements calling for a Green New Deal. At present, the Green New Deal is a big tent idea, grounded to some extent by its identification with the original New Deal and emphasis on the need for strong state action to initiate system change on a massive scale. Given contemporary conditions, it is not surprising that people are looking back to the New Deal period for inspiration. However, inspiration is not the same as seeking and drawing useful organizing and strategic lessons from a study of the dynamics of …
Identity Politics: A Marxist View, Raju Das
Identity Politics: A Marxist View, Raju Das
Class, Race and Corporate Power
This article has three main sections. In section 1, I discuss what identity politics is and what are its theoretical presuppositions. I also talk about the nature of the political action in identity politics, and about its limits. In section 2, I present my views on Marxist politics, which is centered on the theory and the politics of class, combined with the class-theory and class-politics of anti-oppression. I unpack what I consider are the Marxist notions of ‘the common ground’ and of ‘the majority’, as important components of Marxist politics. The majority, in the Marxist sense, are those who …
"Corporate Power, Class Conflict, And The Crisis Of The New Globalization" By Ronald W. Cox, (Lexington Books, 2019) A Review Essay, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
"Corporate Power, Class Conflict, And The Crisis Of The New Globalization" By Ronald W. Cox, (Lexington Books, 2019) A Review Essay, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
Class, Race and Corporate Power
A review of Ronald W. Cox's "Corporate Power, Class Conflict, and the Crisis of the New Globalization" published by Lexington Books, 2019.
“There’S Something Rotten In Denmark:” Frank Olson And The Macabre Fate Of A Cia Whistleblower In The Early Cold War, Jeremy Kuzmarov
“There’S Something Rotten In Denmark:” Frank Olson And The Macabre Fate Of A Cia Whistleblower In The Early Cold War, Jeremy Kuzmarov
Class, Race and Corporate Power
This paper examines the case of Dr. Frank Olson, a CIA biochemist who worked at the Ft. Detrick facility in Maryland where germ and chemical warfare capabilities were developed. In November 1953, Dr. Olson died after allegedly falling from a thirteenth floor window in New York’s Statler hotel. Initially, his death was ruled a suicide. In 1975, however, the CIA admitted that Olson had been unwittingly drugged with LSD which led to his death and paid the family a lofty financial settlement. However, in 1994, Frank’s son Eric ordered the exhumation of Frank’s body and hired a forensics experts who …
“Mass Strikes And Social Movements In Brazil And India: Popular Mobilization In The Long Depression" By Jörg Novak, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) A Review Essay, Kim Scipes
Class, Race and Corporate Power
A review of Jörg Novak's “Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India: Popular Mobilization in the Long Depression" published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Innovations In Labor Studies - Incorporating Global Perspectives: From Exhortation To Making It Real, Kim Scipes
Innovations In Labor Studies - Incorporating Global Perspectives: From Exhortation To Making It Real, Kim Scipes
Class, Race and Corporate Power
Ever since the mid-1840s, there has been an exhortation for workers of the world to unite globally. With the exception of a three-year period between 1946 and 1949 - with the founding and development of the World Federation of Trade Unions immediately after the end of World War II - this has been generally a call limited to rhetoric only. The growing understanding of a globalizing world today, however - affecting the world of work, workers and their organizations - suggests it time for workers to try to make it real. This paper examines two issues pertinent to this new …