Aziz Çelik reviews Mine Dilan Kıran’s study of trade unions and politics under Turkey’s AKP. The cover photograph introduces an analysis of dependence on the state and employers, male dominance and “trade unionism without strikes”.
Aziz Çelik reviews Mine Dilan Kıran’s study of trade unions and politics under Turkey’s AKP. The cover photograph introduces an analysis of dependence on the state and employers, male dominance and “trade unionism without strikes”.
Lorenzo Mazzoni revisits three books on Italian workerism, focusing on Workers and the State and Mauro Gobbini’s approach to workers’ inquiry, everyday political work in factories and strategy built from below.
Steve Early reviews Barry Bergman’s Proles, a novel inspired by work at an Arizona copper smelter. It explores workplace organising, union bureaucracy, racism and sexism through the legacy of Salt of the Earth.
Hiroko Shimizu reviews Moon Young-sook’s The Dark Sea, based on the testimony of Kim Gyeong-bong, a Korean survivor of the 1942 Chosei mine flooding in Japan. The book explores forced labour, colonial violence and the need to preserve the memory of this history.
Kurt Stand reviews Phil Cohen’s memoir of union organising. From grievances to strikes, Cohen shows how member participation and workplace leadership build the power to win and defend collective agreements.
“Who Moves America” is touring the U.S., with upcoming screenings across the West Coast, Northeast, and South. See when it’s coming to your town, or request a screening, here . In the new documentary “Who Moves America,” filmmaker Yael Bridge offers a window into the working-class culture of one o…
When International's Gay Glans was 15 years old, he skipped school for a week – to read Vilhelm Moberg's book "Soldier with Broken Rifle" like a madman. Looking back, I dare say that my week of skipping school meant more for my education than elementary school, he writes. Essay | Gay Glans, photo…
Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class By Noam Scheiber Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2026 In the spring of 2022, a group of Chicago Starbucks workers and organizers sat together after filing their union election paperwork, radiating pride and anxiety. When the logi…
Image: RMT picket line – Carlisle station – March 2018. The Carlisle Kid CC BY-SA 2.0 Ian Allinson’s How to Win a Strike is a practical guide for trade unionists and rank-and-file workplace activists. It provides a useful overview of industrial action and a practical guide to building and running …
Mike Phipps reviews Radicals: The Working Classes and the Making of Modern Britain , by Geoff Andrews, published by Yale University Press. One of the salient features of May’s elections – perhaps most sharply expressed in the votes for the Welsh Senedd – was the splintering of Labour’s traditional…
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