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‘The Future We Need’: understanding capitalism as a whole social formation in class terms
A new book by Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta explores new perspectives on working-class struggle, says JOEL WENDLAND-LIU

A WAVE of union organising drives across the US includes Amazon warehouse workers, coffee baristas, university graduate students and faculty, grocery store workers, nurses, restaurant workers, and food processing workers. 

Labour militancy has seen a strike wave through the closing months of 2021 and continuing into 2022.

The need to understand the labour movement’s role in the economy has sparked new interest in books like William Z Foster’s classic American Trade Unionism: Principles, Organisation, Strategy, Tactics.

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