Workers’ Inquiry
Events
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Refusal of Work: The Writings of Harry Cleaver
Recording available on YouTubeBook Event or PanelEditors Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter present Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: The Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver, a definitive collection of Harry Cleaver’s best unpublished, translated, or lesser known writings – both historical and current – on the refusal of work, class composition and “inversion of the class perspective,” the crisis of capitalism, and the ongoing necessity of re-reading Marxist theory.
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‘The Future of Revolution’ with Jasper Bernes
Recording available on YouTubeBook Event or PanelHow might a twenty-first-century revolution against class society succeed? A conversation with Jasper Bernes, author of The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising. Communism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Bernes reads the revolutionary history of workers' councils and communes in the light of thinkers from Karl Marx to Paul Mattick and C.L.R. James.