Remaking Labor–From the Top-Down? Bottom-Up? or Both?

  This is an amazing review which captures what many folks that I know have been saying since the early 2000’s. The writer, long time labor activist Steve Early, contrasts the perspectives between two recent authors and their analysis of the labor movement in LA Stories: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement by UCLA professor [...]

Looking at the Contours of the Crisis

  With “Contours of the Crisis” in the latest issue of Upping the Anti #8 (see two posts previous), Aidan Conway interviews three leading thinkers on contemporary capitalism who also each happen to be professors of political economy at York University in Toronto as well. They are David McNally, Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch. Below are three highlights that [...]

What’s Interesting in Upping the Anti #9

  Upping the Anti out of Toronto, Canada is perhaps the hottest and best radical left theory/movement journal since it first began publication in late 2005. Releasing its eighth issue as of May 2009, the journal has provided a steady content of articles, interviews, reviews and topic based roundtables by and with movement activists and organizers on the radical left.
  With the [...]

Wallerstein’s essential analysis

Notes on Wallerstein’s “Historical Capitalism”
 
Why the hell do I find Wallerstein so interesting? To be honest, when close friends have told me that I’ve been stuck on him for the last year or so, they are absolutely right. So now I aim to explain to them and others why this is the case and why [...]

Fanon the flames of class struggle

I’m flattered. A colomnist from the Stockton Record posted a brief and slightly satirical blurb in his blog about my below post discussing Stockton and the Central Valley. Get a chuckle out of it here. I have to tip my hat to the title choice as well… Another random tid bit is if you scroll down [...]

What I have been slaving over recently

 Draft: Intermodal Trucker Labor Protest in Central Valley Stockton 
 
By Adam W.

This is a polished draft of the first section and I’m way behind on completing this project for my program. Maybe they are mad at me, maybe just letting me slide so far. Dunno. It didn’t help that in the week I planned to set aside everything to [...]

What the hell is Žižek all about?

A good, short discussion can be found in the link below in my friend Nate’s blog. We’ve been talking back and forth about him. One wild guy. Anyways, I sent Nate the article that kicked off this entry (look for the link at the top and read the letters in response to his article if [...]

Interview with Flavio Sosa: APPO is questioning the traditional ways of doing politics

Translated to English by Chuck Morse, November 9, 2006

By Hernán Ouviña

Flavio Sosa is a member of the “provisional collective council” of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO, in Spanish). Despite being one of APPO’s most visible faces at the moment, he insists on stating that “ours is a movement of the grassroots, [...]

The begining

So, I decided to start up a blog. I haven’t completely decided what all I would use this for, so I imagine a running work in progress. I hope to lay out ruminations on life, pressing realities and the sublime (or just the funny and mundane). I won’t set this up as a very public blog. [...]