Beware passivity propaganda: China and the Left in the times of Trump 2.0
Gerald Roche critiques pseudo-anti-imperialism and its deployment of passivity propaganda, which seeks to convince us to ignore state violence and abandon solidarity.
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Book launch: The Precarious Migrant Worker, Polity (Glasgow and London)
In the desert of neoliberal precarity, how do we struggle? We invite you to the book launches for The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialization of Precarity, taking place in Glasgow (9th of May 2025) and in London (12th May 2025), to explore answers to this question.
Representing resistance, organising, and argument: Literature and worker activism in mid-20th century America
In this talk delivered as part of the University and College's Union Political Education Programme, Chris Reid discusses a series of radical texts produced by workers in mid-20th century America, and the hopes of overcoming capitalism that they contained.
Resisting the far-right: Report back from London, 1/2/25
Amidst a surging need for militant antifascist organising, Interregnum hit the streets of London to report on the antifascist demo of the 1st of February 2025.
The way things are said
What is the difference between a dialect and a language? In this thought-provoking piece, Christopher Hütmannsberger reflects on the politics of language and nationalism, and explores how linguistic hierarchies reflect colonial and nationalist power relations.
The limits to organising: Or, the depths of late fascism
No amount of sustained organising is going to remove the need to engage in conflict. Conflict not in order to change minds, but to protect ourselves against those whose minds are firmly made up.
Workers and empire: Learning from early 20th century resistance politics in Imperial Britain – Part 2
In the second part of Workers and Empire, Christopher Reid surveys the relationships between working class revolts in the centre and the periphery of the British empire, and draws lessons from George Padmore, CLR James, and George Orwell.
Workers and empire: Learning from early 20th century resistance politics in Imperial Britain – Part 1
In the first of two articles on the history of worker activism in the British Empire, Christopher D. Reid examines the resistances in the Welsh coalfields and of women clothworkers in Scotland, and connects them to lessons that can be learnt today.
The monster of Avignon
As a mass rape trial comes to a close in France, Nasra Hussen looks back on all the old common myths used to justify and excuse men who have been caught in the act.
Union busting down under: What the CFMEU administration means for workers' rights
As part of London IWW's Learning Circle talk series, Dr Emily Foley discusses recent events in Australia, where the government legislated to remove democratic control from one of the country's most powerful unions. We have uploaded a recording of the talk here.
The resistance for a democratic Middle East will remain unbroken
We are republishing an article by the Internationalist Commune in Rojava written shortly after a new round of attacks by the Turkish state and Islamist groups against Autonomous Self-Administration of North-East Syria.
From mediation to direct action: Solidarity unions in Cyprus and beyond
The Cypriot branch of the IWW write about the past and present of trade union struggles in the island, and why the model of solidarity unionism is the only sustainable avenue for workers' empowerment under neoliberalism.
Precarious masculinities: Migrant working men’s masculinities as self-exploitation in a Mediterranean restaurant in Glasgow
Panos Theodoropoulos and Sam Lawton-Westerland discuss how ideas of masculinity allow workers to survive the precarious, exploitative conditions they endure in the kitchen of a Mediterranean restaurant in Glasgow; however, this also allows conditions to become normalised.
Breaking the Borders Vol. V
Breaking the Borders is back to bring anti-fascism and hip hop together in Glasgow.