... Butler, Toni Morrison, and others can be proleptically read as together comprising an extended, collaborative, and multigeneric meditation on enslaved women’s roles in what Du Bois called the “general strike” and thus as offering forward a “freedom dream” of pressing relevance. © 2013 Duke University...

...Andrew Ross © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 AGAINST the DAY Andrew Ross Dossier from Strike Debt AGAINST the DAY Andrew Ross Dossier from Strike Debt After the financial crash of 2008, citizens in the global North woke up and found their debts had turned bad...

...Betty Ruth Lozano Lerma To understand the social uprising that occurred in Colombia starting on the day of the national strike, April 28, 2021, particularly in the city of Santiago de Cali, this article examines three postulates: (1) Cali is an ethnicized/racialized and young city; (2) Colombia has...

...Hernán Alejandro Cortés Ramírez This article examines the recent conjuncture of the national strike in Colombia, analyzing its demands in relation to the structural problems that gave rise to them. The text draws from experiences in the mobilizations and theoretical reflections that have emerged...

...Gerald D. McKnight The 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike and the FBI: A Case Study in Urban Surveillance Gerald D. McKnight On 11 February 1968, the eve of Lincoln s birthday, several hundred black sanitation workers proclaimed by a show of hands that emancipation was still a hope that could stir...

...Keramet Reiter On July 1, 2011, approximately four hundred prisoners in California’s Pelican Bay State Prison began a sustained hunger strike. Most of these prisoners had been in total solitary confinement, under conditions of extreme sensory deprivation, for five or more years; a few had been...

... cases—the first one represented by Orlando Patterson's discussion of premodern and modern forms of slavery, and the second case being the hunger strikes of militant British suffragettes at the beginning of the twentieth century. At stake is not just a diversification of the genealogy of bare life...

...Susana Draper; Liz Mason-Deese This article approaches the March 8 women’s strike as a kaleidoscope displaying the complexity of the rupture among different “feminisms.” Within this complex rupture, the figure of the strike, understood as an action, question, and process, was essential...

...Marina Montanelli; Michael Hardt This essay explores the significance of the women’s strike that took place in Italy on March 8, 2017. Analysis of the discussions surrounding the planning process for the strike makes possible a full account of the current state of the feminist movements in Italy...

... : Semiotext(e) . Luxemburg Rosa . 2004 . “ The Mass Strike, the Political Party, and the Trade Unions .” In The Rosa Luxemburg Reader , edited by Hudis Peter Anderson Kevin , 168 – 99 . Monárrez Julia . 2004 . “Elementos de análisis del feminicidio sexual sistémico en Ciudad...

...W. Norman Brown Copyright © 1922 by Duke University Press 1922 Gandhi and the Hunger-Strike in India W. Norman Brown The Johns Hopkins University Terence MacSwiney starving himself to death in Brixton Prison, a Kentucky minister refusing food until his daughter joined the church, the memory...

...Alpheus T. Mason Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 Volume XXIII JULY Number 3 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Right to Strike Alpheus T. Mason Trinity College It is generally conceded today that the American policy toward labor is essentially conservative, while that of England...

...George D. Blackwood THE SIT-DOWN STRIKE IN THE THIRTIES George D. Blackwood GREAT STRIKES, like great men, deserve the best of biogra­ phers. Many moving accounts of the General Motors strike of 1937 have been written; the full story may never be told. It move the lives of millions and molded...

...Laura Harris If ’68 marks the emergence of seemingly new kinds of radical practices pursued by new revolutionary subjects, this essay asks how we might understand a strike undertaken by Appalachian coal miners in the early 1970s and its documentation in the film Harlan County, USA . Is this strike...

...Yates McKee Among the most prominent offshoots of Occupy Wall Street is Strike Debt, an organization that aims to build a nationwide movement of debtors determined to act against the creditor class of Wall Street. Artists and cultural producers of all sorts have been crucially involved...

...Gavin Walker Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the term communism has returned to the theoretical and historical agenda with a striking force and a surprising novelty. In a wide range of fields of knowledge, the questions of the actuality and the history of the world communist movement...

... years. The strategy and tactics of the movement are examined, and its rapid decline is explained. The final section outlines a number of challenges faced by contemporary debtors’ organizations like Strike Debt that emerge from the history of debt resistance and are illuminated by the story of El Barzón...

... solutions to the debt crisis cannot stand. Finally, disaster relief is provided primarily in the form of interest-bearing loans rather than grants. A debt strike is therefore also a climate strike. References Food and Agriculture Organization . 2010 . “ Fighting Poverty and Hunger .” www.fao.org...

...Kevin Lin; Pun Ngai In June 2018, a group of Chinese truck drivers, overwhelmingly made up of rural migrant workers, staged wildcat strikes across China to demand better pay from a monopolistic, logistic, app-based platform. The strike wave intersects with two emerging phenomena in China...

...Prishani Naidoo This essay presents an analysis of recent protests in South Africa, providing historical context for the current cycle of mobilization, including the longest strike in the country’s history and the growing struggle among poor residents for free access to basic utilities. Taking...