Including the rent strikes of 1915 and the Battle of George Square in 1919, Glasgow has a long history of struggle and resistance, but by 2020 it had been some decades since the city had come together in such a show of solidarity. On 13 May 2021, however, the people of Kenmure Street, Pollokshields, in the Southside of Glasgow, found themselves united in struggle against a brutal and oppressive arm of the state. The multicultural community had been almost torn apart in 2004 following the brutal murder of 15-year-old Kriss Donald, though the death eventually brought people together and a new community was forged. This spirit was central to an impressive victory for the working class that went beyond race, religion and identity. Through a range of newspaper articles and four non-structured interviews, this oral history article explores the community spirit and organisation in the lead-up to the events that transpired on Kenmure Street, and the impact this peaceful protest has had at a local and national level.
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How far does the current housing crisis resemble the housing question as Friedrich Engels analysed it 150 years ago? Three housing experts, Linda Clarke, Michael Edwards and Paul Watt, explored this question in a panel discussion at the Marx Memorial Library on 30 January 2023, chaired by Marjorie Mayo, editor of Theory and Struggle. They pointed to the continuing relevance of much of Engels’s approach, rooted in a Marxist analysis of industrialisation, urbanisation and conflicting class interests in relation to land ownership, property development and the housing crisis. Market forces continue to drive so many people out of city centres, for a start. The panellists then went on to identify some of the issues that Engels missed (particularly the role of the construction industry) as well as some of the issues that were not so evident in Engels’s time, such as the changing nature of state intervention, the roles of local authorities and the unions, and the increasing influence of the financial sector. The discussion concluded by focusing on what a progressive government could be doing to ensure that decent housing is provided as a right, and how to link housing struggles with wider struggles, fighting for a more sustainable future for us all.
当前的住房危机与弗里德里希•恩格斯(Friedrich Engels) 150年前分析的住房问题有多相似?2023年1月30日，三位住房专家Linda Clarke, Michael Edwards和Paul Watt在马克思纪念图书馆的小组讨论中探讨了这个问题，由《理论与斗争》的编辑Marjorie Mayo主持。他们指出，恩格斯的许多方法仍然具有相关性，这些方法植根于马克思主义对工业化、城市化以及与土地所有权、房地产开发和住房危机相关的阶级利益冲突的分析。首先，市场力量继续把这么多人赶出市中心。然后，小组成员继续确定恩格斯遗漏的一些问题(特别是建筑业的作用)，以及一些在恩格斯时代不那么明显的问题，例如国家干预性质的变化，地方当局和工会的作用，以及金融部门日益增长的影响力。讨论的最后重点是一个进步的政府可以做些什么来确保体面的住房是一项权利，以及如何将住房斗争与更广泛的斗争联系起来，为我们所有人争取一个更可持续的未来。
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{"title":"The Soviet Union 1922-2022: From the formation to the dismantling of the federative state","authors":"David Lane","doi":"10.3828/theory.2023.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/theory.2023.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":489738,"journal":{"name":"Theory & struggle","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135758087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emerging from global economic shutdown in 2021, some of Britain’s largest employers embarked on radical restructuring of workers’ wages and conditions by exploiting the lack of protection for workers in UK legislation to impose ‘fire and rehire’ and wage cuts. As inflation and interest rates rose sharply, trade unions resisted attacks on their members’ living standards by organising the largest strike wave for over 30 years. The current strike wave has developed from defensive strikes against attacks on jobs and wages into a broad united front of organised labour across both private and public sectors. The political resistance of the organised working class poses the real question of who runs Britain.
{"title":"On the current strike wave","authors":"Alex Gordon","doi":"10.3828/theory.2023.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/theory.2023.11","url":null,"abstract":"Emerging from global economic shutdown in 2021, some of Britain’s largest employers embarked on radical restructuring of workers’ wages and conditions by exploiting the lack of protection for workers in UK legislation to impose ‘fire and rehire’ and wage cuts. As inflation and interest rates rose sharply, trade unions resisted attacks on their members’ living standards by organising the largest strike wave for over 30 years. The current strike wave has developed from defensive strikes against attacks on jobs and wages into a broad united front of organised labour across both private and public sectors. The political resistance of the organised working class poses the real question of who runs Britain.","PeriodicalId":489738,"journal":{"name":"Theory & struggle","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135758088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article provides an account of the RMT Young Members course held at the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School in April 2022, with an outline of the thinking behind its design and how this was put into practice. The importance of integrating historical and theoretical perspectives in a course dealing with practical, day-to-day trade union and industrial issues is underlined.
{"title":"Drawing on historical struggle to face today’s challenges: A course for RMT young workers","authors":"Pete Martin, Simon Renton","doi":"10.3828/theory.2023.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/theory.2023.16","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides an account of the RMT Young Members course held at the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School in April 2022, with an outline of the thinking behind its design and how this was put into practice. The importance of integrating historical and theoretical perspectives in a course dealing with practical, day-to-day trade union and industrial issues is underlined.","PeriodicalId":489738,"journal":{"name":"Theory & struggle","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135758092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Since the 1920s Marxism has often been conceptualised, particularly within what has come to be known as the western Marxist philosophical tradition, in terms of a narrow historical materialism, directed exclusively at human-social existence. It was thus severed from the wider realm of dialectical materialism or materialist dialectics, concerned with what Karl Marx referred to as the ‘universal metabolism of nature’. In the process, the materialist conception of history was alienated from the materialist conception of nature. Today, faced with the planetary ecological emergency of the Anthropocene epoch, it is essential to heal this breach within the philosophy of praxis by returning to the second foundation of Marxism associated with Friedrich Engels’s Dialectics of Nature, seeing this as an indispensable key to the ecological and social revolution of the 21st century.
{"title":"Engels and the second foundation of Marxism","authors":"John Bellamy Foster","doi":"10.3828/theory.2023.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/theory.2023.2","url":null,"abstract":"Since the 1920s Marxism has often been conceptualised, particularly within what has come to be known as the western Marxist philosophical tradition, in terms of a narrow historical materialism, directed exclusively at human-social existence. It was thus severed from the wider realm of dialectical materialism or materialist dialectics, concerned with what Karl Marx referred to as the ‘universal metabolism of nature’. In the process, the materialist conception of history was alienated from the materialist conception of nature. Today, faced with the planetary ecological emergency of the Anthropocene epoch, it is essential to heal this breach within the philosophy of praxis by returning to the second foundation of Marxism associated with Friedrich Engels’s Dialectics of Nature, seeing this as an indispensable key to the ecological and social revolution of the 21st century.","PeriodicalId":489738,"journal":{"name":"Theory & struggle","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135758098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Marx Memorial Library holds one of the world’s most important archives on the men and women who fought fascism in Spain from 1936 to 1939 and on responses to the Spanish Civil War in general. The history of the war and its place in the lead-up to the Second World War have long been argued about. During the cold war, the communist-led International Brigades in particular were routinely denigrated. This century, an anti-left historical revisionist movement with roots in eastern Europe has sought to ignore the contribution of the communist left to the long war against fascism from 1936 to 1945, and to erase the memory of the International Brigades.
{"title":"Historical revisionism: The International Brigades and the rewriting of anti-fascist history","authors":"Jim Jump","doi":"10.3828/theory.2023.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/theory.2023.5","url":null,"abstract":"The Marx Memorial Library holds one of the world’s most important archives on the men and women who fought fascism in Spain from 1936 to 1939 and on responses to the Spanish Civil War in general. The history of the war and its place in the lead-up to the Second World War have long been argued about. During the cold war, the communist-led International Brigades in particular were routinely denigrated. This century, an anti-left historical revisionist movement with roots in eastern Europe has sought to ignore the contribution of the communist left to the long war against fascism from 1936 to 1945, and to erase the memory of the International Brigades.","PeriodicalId":489738,"journal":{"name":"Theory & struggle","volume":"428 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135758089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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