Category Archives: Former issues

The working class fades away?

Is there a future for the working class as an organized political and history-shaping force? Hardly, on the short run. The Left, however, has only got a future if it doesn't give up the critique and reform of capitalism and the hope and possibility for a more just system.

Workers after the workers’ state: ethnography of change in an ex-Socialist „top factory”

The study analyses the critical labour narratives of the system change, pointing out that these question the official categories of transitology, even though the critique of the ..existing capitalism" – as experienced in the Raba Factory – did not lead to the rejection of capitalism as a social system. The consistently inconsistent" views of the workers are the expressions of those contradictions as the workers experience ..transition".