To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
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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