...Todd Wolfson A G A I N S T the D A Y Todd Wolfson Introduction: Class Struggle before Class On May 8, 2019, the day before Uber released its IPO (initial public offer- ing), app-based drivers across the world turned off their cell phones and went on strike. These strikes, which took place...

... On Animal Societies: Biology, Sociology, and the Class Struggle in France ​In accounts of both the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, scenes of slaughter and dis- memberment emerged as a ubiquitous shorthand...

... . Bonefeld Werner . 2010a . “ The Free Economy and the Strong State .” Capital and Class 34 , no. 1 : 15 – 24 . Bonefeld Werner . 2010b . “ History and Human Emancipation: Struggle, Uncertainty, and Openness .” Critique 38 , no. 10 : 61 – 73 . Bordiga Amadeo . 1949...

... psychoanalytically mediated decoupling of themselves from their Balkan origins and their own split subject positions. The empirical history of human solidarity formalized in the Marxist philosophy of class struggle and actualized in Gramsci's philosophy of praxis challenged not only Cartesian subjectivity as pure...

..., these alliances transcend identity and ethnicity to encompass what seems closer to resurgent class struggle. As conventional political forms falter, these alternative social configurations and tactics hold promise and possibility. Diana Allan “This Is Not a Politics”: Solidarity and Subterfuge...

... of legal subjectivity (which we take to mean the formal principle of freedom and equality, the autonomy of the personality, and so forth) is not only an instrument of deceit and a product of the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie, insofar as it used to coun- ter the proletarian struggle to abolish classes...

... of reproduction. The debt-based economy and the production of mass indebtedness, which must be viewed as a response to the accumulation crisis caused by the social struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, represents an important transformation in class relations. “Debt” hides class antagonism, individualizes workers...

... the party’s desirability as a political form but according to its possibility within the concrete situation of potentially revolutionary classes. We inquire into the political economy of revolutionary struggle rather than abstracted political theory—particularly the circumstance that afforded the party form...

... the limited living space and time to create and remix culturally diversified repertoires in struggles. Class analysis, as a weapon of progressive social change, has to be recast in the lived experience of the working class, in relation to party-state rhetoric. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013...

..., and forms of organization and their class content. The author analyzes how these issues appear in specific experiences of current social struggles in Latin America. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 References Avaro Dante Valencia Daniel Vázquez , eds. 2010 . Venezuela: ¿Más...

... of these struggles by the declining rank of socialist state workers was the surge of militant resistance by the new working class in the export sector after China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. Whereas local states and private manufacturers colluded to repress these new workers’ struggles...

... framework within which unions now operate serves to further separate labor and community. Mem- bership in both unions and community organizations has come to be defined largely by institutional position and structure as opposed to class location and lived experience and struggle. Much like...

...Francesco Brancaccio Gilets Jaunes uprising class struggle References Balibar Étienne . 2018 . “ Gilets Jaunes. Le sens du face-à-face .” Médiapart , December 13 . https://blogs.mediapart.fr/etienne-balibar/blog/131218/gilets-jaunes-le-sens-du-face-face...

..., and it chronicles their struggle against the colonial and postcolonial governments in the Sudan. For more than half a century, the railway workers of Atbara formed the core of the Sudanese working class and became one of the most dynamic and militant labor movements in Africa and the Middle East. One of the most...

...Alexei Penzin The article provides an introduction and context for this section of Against the Day, which analyzes the ongoing protests in Russia. The mainstream interpretations of Russian events create a stereotypical picture formed by liberal narratives as a struggle with an authoritarian regime...

... and the remaking of the working class,”18 positing instead a new approach and set of questions to comprehending the dynamics of racial formation and political struggle. Broadly, these questions revolve around the necessity to locate racism historically as a dominant feature of capitalism...

... of their integration into the social corpus. This involves, in other words, the autonomist Marxist concept of class com- position (Altamira 2006): the condensation of refusal, conflicts, cooperation, and creativity that strains the structure to a kairological boiling point, where these struggles accumulate...

... and peasantry, or managers and workers. Contradictorily, even tragically, this Žg- ure of the plan posed the question of what it means for economic planning to contend with the persistence of class struggle, as well as to refuse fantasies of the subsumption of the economic by the political, or vice versa. Today...

...Forrest Hylton Focusing on late nineteenth-century insurgent movements for self-government, sovereignty, and political representation in Bolivia in 1899, this essay explores issues of regional antagonism, elite fragmentation, and incipient class divisions within Indian peasant communities. I...

... active agents of historical change, that the struggle over control of black labor was central to the era’s politics, that Reconstruction was a time of enormous promise and numerous accomplishments, that to understand it one must examine the entire nation, not just the South, and all the classes, from...