Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009.
Ashley Weger
“It was not the economics of Communism, nor the great power of trade unions, nor the excitement of underground politics that claimed me; my attention was caught by the similarity of workers in other lands, by the possibility of uniting scattered but kindred peoples into a whole.”
— Richard [...]
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Book Review: Randi Storch. Red Chicago: American Communism at its Grassroots, 1928-35.
Labor struggles today: A report on a recent civil disobedience action in Chicago
Laurie Rojas
ON SEPTEMBER 24, 2009, approximately 900 Chicagoans rallied on the sidewalks in front of the Park Hyatt Hotel near the Magnificent Mile. At the height of rush hour, about 200 members and community allies of UNITE HERE Local 1, Chicago’s hospitality workers’ union, arrived at the scene and blocked all four lanes of Chicago [...]
Left behind: the working class in the crisis
Chuck Hendricks, Aaron Hughes, Abraham Mwaura, and James Thindwa
On April 23, 2009, a panel discussion titled Left Behind: The Working Class In The Crisis was held at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The panelists were Abraham Mwaura of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, who has worked as an organizer [...]
July 1st, 2009 | Platypus Review editor | 2 comments | Continued
NYU Screening: Finally Got The News (1970)
A Film by Stewart Bird, Rene Lichtman and Peter Gessner
Produced in Association with the League of Revolutionary Black Workers
Running Time: 55 Minutes
Friday, January 16th 2009
6:30pm
New York University Sociology Department
Puck Building
295 Lafayette st. 4th FL
New York, NY 10012
The necessity of leadership
Richard Kidd
To change the world, we need a movement. This movement must be made up of millions of people and thousands of organizations. These organizations must build and push the movement forward. How do we get to this point? We have to start with leadership.
From 12 to 155
As a union organizer, I train workers to [...]
To the victor, the spoils: Review of Artforum’s May 2008 issue “May ‘68″
Benjamin Blumberg
“We succeeded culturally. We succeeded socially. And we lost politically.… I always say: ‘thank God!’”
— Daniel Cohn-Bendit in interview on 1968, conducted by Yascha Mounk for The Utopian (2008)
“[O]ne asks with whom the adherents of historicism actually empathize. The answer is inevitable: with the victor.… Whoever has emerged victorious participates to this day in [...]
Immigration rights and the labor movement
Information session for organizers of the May 1, 2008 International Workers’ Day demonstration in Chicago
with Tania Unzueta May 1st Youth,
Jorge Mujica Movimiento 10 de Marzo, and
Shaun Harkin International Socialist Organization
Audio link here
Yesterday, I was an anarchist
“We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.”
—Mao Tse-Tung
I just turned thirty. Fifteen years on the Left—that’s half my lifetime now and what it means [...]
Interview: Ernesto Laclau
Ernesto Laclau, Ashleigh Campi
Confronting the confusion and fragmentation that wrought progressive politics in recent decades, Ernesto Laclau’s work attempts to theorize the path to the construction of a radical democratic politics. Drawing on Gramsci’s concept of hegemony to devise his own theory by that name, Laclau describes the processes of social articulation that creates [...]
