Long-time labor and political activist, journalist, and scholar Kim Moody has compiled an extraordinary body of work in this volume of essays, a welcome addition to the libraries of labor organizers, social scientists, and historians. The eleven essays that make up the volume are divided into two parts: “Class Struggle—Theory and Strategy” and “The Future of Unions in the United States.” They are a compilation of political speeches, academic articles, and pieces written for other outlets, for example Labor Notes, that find cohesion here within the frameworks of Marxist class struggle and socialist politics.
In the first part of the book, Moody places class struggle within the context of globalization, arguing that as capitalists have accumulated a larger share of the world’s wealth since the 1970s, so too have labor struggles, strikes, and protests increased. Why? The simple answer is that capitalists’ ever growing share of the wealth has...
