Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto
Contents:
Introduction
Editorial
Shock and Au (on the crisis of the EU)
Elephant on a Skateboard (on fixed capital and crisis)
S. Artesian
The Demise of Andy Stern and the Question of Unions in Contemporary Capitalism
Loren Goldner
Not Another Disaster Movie (on the BP oil spill)
John Garvey
Auto Industry Strikes in China
Lance Carter
Tailoring to Needs: Garment Worker Struggles in Bangladesh
Red Marriott
Lessons from the Tekel strikes: class solidarity and ethnic (in)difference
Kadir Ateş and Toros Korkmaz
Book Review
Kevin Anderson, Marx at the Margins
John Garvey
Letters
Barcelona, Mexico City