class

class

A class is a group of people connected by a common relationship to the means of production. On this site class is not a system of individual classification, it is a model for understanding and thus changing society.

In capitalist society there are broadly two predominant economic classes, the working class and the capitalist class, although boundaries between them are not strict and there are many differences and stratifications within them

Dancehall Dreams by Tom Jennings (2004). Music review – Tom Jennings

Tom Jennings’ essay on contemporary urban music, gender and class.

Dancehall Dreams by Tom Jennings

Amilcar Cabral's theory of class suicide and revolutionary socialism - Tom Meisenhelder

Amilcar Cabral

"The notion of 'class suicide' by the petty-bourgeois leadership at first glance may sound unrealistic but it is much less so than the most popular competing images of socialist revolution in the Third World..."

This is a most difficult time for revolutionary socialists. The rapid collapse and disintegration of the Soviet Union, the electoral defeat of the Sandinistas, the many problems of Cuba, and the demise of revolutionary Marxism-Leninism in Africa all force a serious questioning of basic ideas and strategies. It is a time when global capital seems to rule nearly unchallenged throughout the world.

Time 'to dump' multiculturalism - Joe Reilly

The Bradford riots

Currently there is much discussion on how the rise of the far right can be halted. The truthful answer, says Joe Reilly, is that an anti-fascism joined at the hip with multiculturalism cannot do so.

Britain 'has the highest number of interracial relationships in the world' according to the Institute for Social and Economic Research. This supremely natural and healthy state of affairs, is however, not due to multiculturalism but in spite of it.

Race attack - Red Action on multiculturalism

G. O'Halloran argues that by its betrayal of principle, multiculturalism is a major propaganda gift to the far right, as well as laying the foundations for the political extermination of the working class itself.

Born of the desire to combat communism, multiculturalism was conceived out of cynicism and embraced by the left out of defeatism.

While we do not agree with the article in its entirety, we feel that it contains a number of useful points and arguments, and reproduce it here for reference.

Race, class and organisation - Workers Solidarity Federation

An interesting analysis of race, anarchism and class from South African organisation the Workers Solidarity Federation from 1998.

INTRODUCTION BY BLACK FLAG:

We recently observed a very fruitful discussion on race and class on the internet, particularly around "black" anarchism, special oppressions and the desirability of separate organisation.

Multitude or working class - Paolo Virno

Virno explores the relationship of the concepts...

There are some analogies and many differences between the contemporary multitude and the multitude studied by the political philosophers of C17th.

The housing question

Introduction
For the vast majority of people living in a capitalist society housing is an ever-present concern.

Jack Common - selected articles

A selection of articles by the undeservably obscure Jack Common, a Geordie who wrote both novels and essays on various aspects of culture and class relations. His friend George Orwell had written of Common: "he is of proletarian origin, and much more than most writers of this kind he preserves his proletarian viewpoint".

A fascinating writer, his analysis of the emerging mass consumerism of the 1930s & 40s seems to closely anticipate the concept of the 'society of the spectacle' later developed by the situationists.

From the endangered phoenix.com website; http://www.endangeredphoenix.com/

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Review of "The Enemy is Middle Class"

A review of Andy Anderson's "The Enemy is Middle Class"/

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