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The British Labour Party's Quest for the Past

Kim Moody — 2022-03-06T09:59:49Z

Within a week of Tony Blair's New Year's Day induction into the Most Noble Order of the Knights of the Garter, the United Kingdom's most prestigious order of chivalry, a million Britons had signed a petition demanding the knighthood be withdrawn.

- IV566 - March 2022 / Britain

Workers of the World: Growth, Change, and Rebellion

Kim Moody — 2021-01-31T14:49:29Z

“The difficulty in analyzing the potential of this era of rebellion is compounded by the uncertain impact of the three crises of capitalism, and in particular the effect of the pandemic, on a variety of industries and the GVCs.”

- IV552 - January 2021 / Economy, Trade unions/workplace organizing

We Just Remembered How to Strike

Kim Moody — 2019-05-01T08:02:26Z

2018 might have been the year that convinced workers that the strike holds the power needed to move today's corporate giants and austerity-obsessed governments.

- IV532 - May 2019 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

Is There a Gig Economy?

Kim Moody — 2018-11-23T09:57:47Z

Job security has never been a feature of capitalism. As competition drives accumulation from one industry or location to another in search of profits via the ups and downs of periodic crises, it necessarily alters employment patterns and the organization of work. Over the long haul, U.S. capitalism moved employment from agricultures to industry to often mislabelled service jobs.

- IV526 - November 2018

U.S. Workers in the Late Neoliberal Era

Kim Moody — 2017-08-13T22:05:33Z

Capitalism in the United States and across the world has gone through a series of mind-bending crises, spatial “fixes,” and continuous restructurings that have disoriented organized labor in most of the developed economies since the beginning of the neoliberal era in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

- IV511 - August 2017 / United States (USA), Economy, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Theresa May's Katrina: Grenfell Tower and the Election Outcome that Wasn't Supposed to Happen

Kim Moody, Sheila Cohen — 2017-07-08T09:59:14Z

We live in a north London street which, despite its impressive 19th century architecture, is peopled mainly by “council tenants” (public housing residents). This is largely due to the left-of-center politics of the local council (government), which bought up large areas of such housing in the 1970s, limiting “development” and gentrification, and preserving much of the working class population. Perhaps as a result Labour MP Emily Thornberry, a strong supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, was re-elected with an increased majority of over 20,000 votes—63% against the Conservative's 21%. Nationally, Labour won 30 new seats and increased its vote by 3.5 million and the Conservatives lost their majority.

- IV510 - July 2017 / Britain

Who Put Trump in the White House?

Kim Moody — 2017-01-09T07:32:05Z

THE MEDIA STORY in the days following the 2016 election was that a huge defection of angry, white, blue-collar workers in the Rust Belt from their traditional Democratic voting patterns put Donald J. Trump in the White House in a grand slap at the nation's “liberal” elite. But is that the real story?

- IV504 - January 2017 / United States (USA)

Busting the Myths of a Workerless Future

Chris Brooks, Kim Moody — 2016-11-04T19:51:13Z

Where's our economy headed? Soon every factory worker will have to start driving for Uber, and the trucks will drive themselvesâ€”at least so the business press tells us. But Kim Moody, co-founder of Labour Notes and the author of many books on U.S. labor, paints a different picture. Chris Brooks asked him to cut through the hype and describe what's coming for working people and the opportunities for unions. It appeared in two parts in Labour Notesbut we are reproducing it as one.

- IV502 - November 2016 / United States (USA), Economy, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Was Brexit a Working-Class Revolt?

Kim Moody — 2016-09-14T16:17:11Z

On June 23, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union (EU) by 17,4120,742 (52%) to 16,141,241 (48%) with a high turnout of 72%. The referendum gave voters the simple choice of whether the UK should “Leave” or “Remain” in the EU. It was called by Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, as a result of pressure from “Eurosceptic” Tory (Conservatives) Members of Parliament (MPs) and the growing right-wing, anti-EU, anti-immigrant United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP, pronounced U-kip).

- European Union / Debate section, European Union, Racism and Islamophobia