Tag: Book review
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No Politics But Class Politics: Class, Identity, Inequality
In his recent book, Poverty, by America, Matthew Desmond writes, “Poverty might consume your life, but it’s rarely embraced as an identity. It’s more socially acceptable today to disclose a … Keep reading »
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Canadian Unions and the State: Losing Ground, Moving On
There have now been four editions of From Consent to Coercion: The Continuing Assault on Labour (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023), the first dating back to 1985, and it … Keep reading »
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Capitalism Against Labour: Can We Re-Invent Work?
Mike Yates is a long time Marxist, socialist writer and analyst, and one of the editors of Monthly Review. Over the years he has written extensively about capitalism but particularly … Keep reading »
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Building a Labour Movement to Take on the Billionaire Class
Joe Burns’ new book, Class Struggle Unionism, reads like pamphlet, with a clear call to transform the union movement in the US (although it is still applicable to Canada). The … Keep reading »
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Classes and Politics: Common Sense in the Form of Theory
A review of The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn by Vivek Chibber. Harvard University Press, 2022. 224 pp. In the politically contested disciplines – the humanities and … Keep reading »
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A ‘Fatiguing Climb’: Capitalist Competition and Working-Class Formation
The working-class in capitalism is not a coherent class but a fragmented one – an amalgam of individuals trying to survive. It’ll take politics to change that. Keep reading »
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A Nightmare of Homelessness: A Knapsack Full of Dreams
Cathy Crowe’s book A Knapsack Full of Dreams: Memoirs of a Street Nurse comes out of decades of witnessing and challenging a growing blight of destitution and poverty in Toronto … Keep reading »
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Review: I Am Not Your Negro
Now and then, and despite its capitalist and racial biases, our culture throws up something that can speak quite eloquently and uniquely about the times we’re living through. In this case, I’m referring to an amazing documentary film that has been released recently, “I Am Not Your Negro,” directed by Raoul Peck, an acclaimed Haitian director with major films to his credit. This latest work is well worth seeing and has been well received here. Keep reading »