May Day Reading 2022
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May Day reading: We Want Everything
"It’s not fair, living this shitty life, the workers said in meetings, in groups at the gates. All the stuff, all the wealth that we make is ours. Enough. We can’t stand it any more, we can’t just be stuff too, goods to be sold. Vogliamo tutto — We want everything."
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May Day reading: An Injury to All
An excerpt from Kim Moody's introduction to his classic book An Injury to All, which exposes the roots of modern “business unionism” and the causes of its decline.
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There is power in the movement: Organised labour and the conquest of production
Craig Gent analyses the role of unions and potential for social movements in creating a workers' future without scarcity. Part of the Verso Roundtable on Automation and the Future of Work.
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Playing the Whore, The Work
In Playing the Whore, sex workers' demands, too long relegated to the margins, take center stage: sex work is work, and sex workers' rights are human rights.
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Communal Luxury: Kristin Ross
An essay from Communal Luxury by Kristin Ross
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The Sexual Division of Labour
The following essay is by Gail Lewis and is taken from "Black Women's Employment and the British Economy" from Inside Babylon.
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Care Crisis and Care Strike
In State of Insecurity, Isabell Lorey explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious. In this extract she looks at care crisis and care strike.
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We want bread. We also want roses.
An exclusive preview from Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights by Juno Mac and Molly Smith.
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Love’s Labour’s Cost: The Political Economy of Intimacy
On Valentine's Day, Emma Dowling makes a powerful case for thinking about the structure of social relationships rather than simply 'the one'.
