Peter sez:

Though living primarily in Dakar and Paris, the noted leftist political-economist, Samir Amin is Egyptian by birth and was once a member of one or other Communist party there. He also once wrote, under an assumed name, a Marxist book on Egypt (1950s?).  The piece below is probably more interesting on the US and the MB than it is on the workers and peasants, about…

Peter sez:

Still going strong, a decade or two later, this argument and its author continue to challenge a labour movement that - Right, Centre and Left - is still overwhelmingly trapped within a capitalist notion of work.

The item was originally published in 'Processed World', a little magazine that was aware of the 'information…

Friday 31 December 2010

by: Nick Egnatz   |  Online Journal | Op-Ed

Kim Scipes’ new book “AFL-CIO’s Secret War against Developing Country Workers” (Lexington Books, 2010)…

Brian Tierney

Across the U.S., working-class people are struggling, scraping together meager sums in order to get by. In state and local governments throughout the country, workers are watching…

Peter sez:

This abstract of an article by Kim Scipes in Working USA argues that the AFL-CIO's strategy in the Global South should be seen in terms of 'labour imperialism' rather than any other, and that it should be understood primarily in terms of ideology.

This particular issue of the journal (of which only abstracts are available free) is on the history and present of the anarchist or autonomist tradition. I am…

The 234-Year-Old Virgin

by David Macaray /

An old joke: An Oxford professor meets a former student and asks what he’s been up to. The student tells him he’s working on his

doctoral thesis, whose topic is the survival of…