This is Part 3 in Chuang‘s serialised translation of the 2024 year-in-review “Keeping Each Other Afloat in a Difficult World: Taking Stock of Labor Struggles
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“Ethiopian working people’s incomes are simply so low that they cannot be pilfered very much further.” Dr. Samuel Andreas Admasie is a researcher and archive
This is Part 2 in Chuang‘s serialised translation of the 2024 year-in-review “Keeping Each Other Afloat in a Difficult World: Taking Stock of Labor Struggles
For unions to survive, they must embrace antifascism. In countries across the capitalist world, trade union movements are being challenged to their very core by
Preface by Chuang 闯 Since 2020, an anonymous group of netizens has been coming together to prepare an annual review of labor struggles (or, in
As Kenya marks the first anniversary of the uprising that shook the nation on 25 June 2024, Abdirashid Diriye reflects on the pivotal role played
The political left is (potentially) a force to counter right-wing politics, resist nationalist tendencies, and help coordinate social movements that fight against capitalism. But recently,
Yemeni women have taken to the streets in their thousands in recent weeks. They have demanded water, electricity, a better standard of living, the payment
The protests that swept through China between May and early June 2025 highlight deep tensions and dynamics of growing instability in the country’s social fabric
Usually, strikes in Armenia’s furthest mining towns are repressed before journalists can make it there from the capital city, Yerevan. The recent wildcat strike of
Yesterday was a day of great strength, solidarity, and remembrance of women workers’ historic struggles for rights and against tyrants. Support for the striking ASHA
From Ill Will Traversing a century of revolution, counter-revolution, and regime change in Iran, Arya Zahedi traces out the social, political, and ideological tensions that
The ASHA workers’ strike in Kerala is entering its third week. We are appalled by the CPI(M)-led government’s apathy and the disgusting ignorance of the
Capitalist society has a dynamic tendency towards constant technological change — change in products, methods of production, and in the ways workers are managed in
Asaf Elia-Shalev’s book Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth (University of California Press, 2024) tells the story of the young and impoverished
Can you tell us a bit more about Karmína? What is your origin story? What do you do? How do you define yourself as a
Apologists for capitalism like to point to its historically progressive aspects, like its supposed use of “free labor” rather than older forms of labor compulsion.
The ‘Indigènes de la République’ have helped make visible a racism of the left, one rooted in the pervasive racism consubstantial with French society —