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Finding your class bearings in a leftwing universe
This book, by a defiantly unreconstructed Marxist, faithful to self-evident truths is what we ought to be reading now, suggests GAVIN O’TOOLE
SELF-EVIDENT: RMT protest outside Bute House in Edinburgh, January 31 2022
ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review On The Sea, A Useful Ghost, Brunello: The Gracious Visionary, and Pinocchio Unstrung
RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle
by Michael D Yates
Monthly Review Press £12.19
IN THE complex landscape of late-stage capitalism, the multiple forms taken by the division of labour can blind us to our shared status of “working class.”
On every page of Work Work Work, Michael Yates puts us right, reminding us that work, whatever form it takes — manufacturing, farming, bureaucracy, services or gig — is exploitation based on the extraction of surplus value, and that only by undoing capitalism can we end that.
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