Loren Goldner
American Marxist writer on contemporary capitalism and workers struggles against it.
Ssangyong motors strike in South Korea ends in defeat and heavy repression
Loren Goldner's analysis and overview of the defeated strike and occupation of the Ssangyong Motors plant against job cuts.
The Ssangyong Motor Company strike and plant occupation in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, ended after 77 days on Aug. 5. For the 976 workers who seized the small auto plant on May 22 and held it against repeated quasi-military assault, the settlement signed by Ssangyong court receivership manager Park Young-tae and local union president Han Sang-kyun represented a near-total defeat.
Ssangyong occupation audio interview with Loren Goldner
Audio interview conducted with Loren Goldner by alternative radio in the aftermath of the two-month occupation of the Ssangyong motor plant by workers against job cuts.
Listen to the MP3 here:
http://www.archive.org/download/InterviewWithLorenGoldnerOnSouthKoreaWorkersOccupationOfSsangyong/mediahacker_korea__ssangyong_loren_goldner_interview.mp3
Or here:
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/mediahacker_korea__ssangyong_loren_goldner_interview.mp3
from www.mediahacker.org
Seattle: the first US riot against 'globalisation'? - Loren Goldner
Loren Goldner's article for Undercurrent #8 on the anti-WTO protests which took place in Seattle in 1999.
Mass politics in the streets disappeared in the U.S. between 1970 and 1973. In retrospect, it is clear that the years 1964 to 1970 were not a "pre-revolutionary situation", but anyone who lived through those years as an activist can be forgiven for thinking it was. Any number of people in the ruling circles shared the same error of judgement.
Korean Sanggyong strike up against the wall
The Ssangyong Motors strike in Pyeongtaek, South Korea (near Seoul), is now in its eighth week, and the situation of the strikers is increasingly dire.
Loren Goldner
July 17
(The following article reports “just the facts”, based on communications from workers and other activists involved in the struggle.)
The Ssangyong Motors strike in Pyeongtaek, South Korea (near Seoul), is now in its eighth week, and the situation of the strikers is increasingly dire.
Pyeongtaek strike continues in South Korea
A strike now completing its fourth week at Ssangyong Motors in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, remains a standoff as of this writing. The strike echoes in many ways the dynamic seen in the recent Visteon struggle in the UK and in battles over auto industry restructuring around the world. Involving, on the other hand, an outright factory seizure and occupation, and preparation for violent defense of the plant if necessary, it is the first struggle of its kind in South Korea for years.
Loren Goldner
(June 19)
Social reproduction for beginners
In the worldwide renaissance of interest in the work of Karl Marx of the past decade, a renaissance well-timed for the current (August 2007-November 2008) textbook liquidity crisis resulting lawfully from the anarchic character of capitalist accumulation, one key concept of Marx still remains in the shadows: the expanded reproduction of society and of nature.
SOCIAL REPRODUCTION FOR BEGINNERS:
BRINGING THE REAL WORLD BACK IN
Loren Goldner
The biggest ‘october surprise’ of all: a world capitalist crash - Loren Goldner
Loren Goldner's analysis of the recent global financial crisis.
Loren Goldner
October 2008
“There will be periods of 30 years which will pass with the seeming importance of a single day, and single days with the importance of 30 years.” (old Marxist maxim)
Great Game II: America Lashes Out on the Borders of China and Russia - by Loren Goldner
The 19th century 'Great Game' rivalry between Britain and Russia for supremacy in Central Asia is seeing a resurgence, with America taking Britain's place. The stakes are higher than ever, argues Loren Goldner.
Source; Mute magazine.
Most of Goldner's work is available on the Break Their Haughty Power website.
The Korean working class: From mass strike to casualization and retreat, 1987-2007
Loren Goldner on the history of the Korean working class during the past 20 years.
The Korean Working Class: From Mass Strike to Casualization and Retreat, 1987-2007
Loren Goldner
ABSTRACT
Argentina 2001 uprising Treason pamphlet
This pamphlet was produced to make available information about the massive working class revolts in Argentina in 2001-2. These struggles were probably the most important action of the global proletariat in recent years. In time what happened in Argentina will come to be seen as an event of similar importance to May 1968 in France when 10 million workers went on wildcat strike for three weeks.
