Part 2 of my conversation with Ferdia O'Driscoll about Self Determination Theory and why it matters for socialists out now! Enjoy :)

New Episode - Part 1 of "Socialism and Self-Determination Theory" with Ferdia O'Driscoll, now out. Enjoy!

Latest Episode now out! We talk with David Camfield about his recent Book, Red Flags: A Reckoning With Communism For The Future Of The Left. Enjoy :)

Hey Everybody. My co-author Donal is now on Blue Sky. Go give him a follow: @donaloc91.bsky.social

Going to try one of those Youtube premiere things today @ 2pm London time, answering your questions about Unifying Marxism and Cybernetics. Come join me in the chat :)

Going to do a Q&A video on the latest 'Unifying Marxism and Cybernetics' video this week. If you have any questions you'd like me to discuss, DM me or reply to this thread! For those that haven't watched the video yet, here it is on youtube:

Just released a talk I gave on 'Unifying Marxism and Cybernetics' at the Complex Anarchism Symposium in Brussels, Belgium earlier this year. It's a monster! If you have any questions, just reply here and I will answer them in a serparate Q&A video.

Prof. Paul Adler on what Socialists can learn from the Toyota Production System

Will AI Steal Your Job? Is mass unemployment likely? youtu.be/9RPqTIes0Ws

New Episode with Paul S. Adler where we discuss his 2019 book: "The 99% Economy: How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome the Crises of Capitalism". Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/134950...

New episode just released with Prof. Paul S. Adler on his 1990 paper 'Marx, Machines, and Skill'. Enjoy! youtu.be/PMAMY8jEqaU

New Episode now out! Part 2 of our conversation with Anna Fielder on her analysis of childbirth in capitalism. Enjoy!

New Episode now out! Part 1 of an interview with Anna Fielder about recent book "Going Into Labour: Childbirth In Capitalism". Enjoy!

I came across an 1887 account of Dublin by a veteran of the Paris Commune and wow he did not like the food:

Going to be in Brussels next week giving a talk on unifying Value Theory and Cybernetics at the Inaugral Complex Anarchism Symposium! clea.research.vub.be/complex-anar...

Latest episode now out! Part 2 of our discussion with Roger Arevalo on the Vanguard Method and its implications for socialism. Enjoy :) www.patreon.com/posts/216-va...

New Episode out with Roger Arevalo on the The Vanguard Method - TPS for services and its implications for Socialism. Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/215-va...

Latest episode now out - Part 2 of our Marx Meets Lean w/ Matt Vidal. Enjoy!

Really enjoyed being interviewed by Tom for his From Alpha to Omega podcast. We discussed my book, Management Divided, where I present a classical Marxist analysis of lean production, which grapples with it as a contradictory development, not simply a more refined system of mgt control + deskilling

Marx Meets Lean w/ Matt Vidal now out! Enjoy :)

#OtD 2 Mar 1974 25 year old anti-Franco resistance activist Salvador Puig Antich was executed by garrote vil in the Modelo prison. It took him almost 20 minutes to die. His execution became a symbol of the barbaric nature of the Francoist regime. More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

Here is the Q&A from the talk I recently gave on "Cybernetic Socialism for the 21st Century" to the Dutch socialist group De Socialisten. This talk was in conjunction with INDEP, the Independent Network for Democratic Economic Planning (www.indep.network): youtu.be/GWgBdhQOvfs

I recently gave a talk on 'Cybernetic Socialism for the 21st Century' for the Dutch marxist group De Socialisten (socialisten.org), inconjunction with INDEP(www.indep.network). You can check out the presentation here: youtu.be/vHDM775B0nI

A new zoom link for my talk tonight @ 7pm London time on 'Cybernetic Socialism for the 21st Century'. The previous link was broken. us06web.zoom.us/j/8107950519...

Giving an on-line talk to the Dutch De Socialisten party, titled 'Cybernetic Economics for the 21st Century' on wednesday evening. 7pm London, 8pm Amsterdam time. You can find the details here: www.indep.network/event/cybern...

Portrait of ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social: jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...

Very excited about Long Haul, a quarterly magazine of worker writing and organization. Great to see more voices from workers themselves in leftist publishing 🙏 (ht @itsmccarthy.bsky.social ) longhaulmag.com/about/

#OtD 28 Dec 1943 after the arrest of two partisans, Mario Fiorentini threw two kilos of TNT at SS guards outside a prison in Rome, killing eight. The Nazis opened fire but were unable to hit him as he quickly cycled away to safety. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podca...

#OtD 24 Dec 1983 pop group, The Flying Pickets, made up of people who had supported the British miners' strikes in 1972 and 1974, had the UK Christmas number 1 single with their a cappella cover of Yazoo's (Yaz in the US) Only You www.tiktok.com/@workingclassh...

#OtD 23 Dec 1961 Dutch Spanish Civil War volunteer, Fanny Schoonheyt, known as the queen of the machine gun, died. She was the only Dutch woman volunteer who fought the fascists, serving on the Aragon front until wounded. Learn more about the war: workingclasshistory.com/2020/...

Henri Simon has died today. A militant marxist and proponent of council communism, Henri was a founding member of Socialisme ou Barbarie. He was also a good friend and a comrade with an unsurpassed history of experience and struggles. Goodbye friend ✊

#OtD 15 Dec 1897 Scottish mill worker and socialist Mary Brooksbank born. She fought for better health and social services, organised women railway workers & was imprisoned three times in her life for her activities stories.workingclasshistory.c...

Good riddance.

Just finished a really great chat with Matt Vidal @chukker.bsky.social about all things Lean and TPS. We dished the dirt on alienation, work intensification, the contradictions of capital and much much more. All I got to do is edit it now.... should be out soon!

#OtD 11 Dec 1981 a Reagan-backed death squad massacred around 1000 people in El Mozote, El Salvador. Prior to being killed, many of the victims were tortured and girls as young as 10 were raped by the US-trained troops stories.workingclasshistory.c...

How Native Americans Guarded Their Societies Against Tyranny: "Many Native American communities were consensus democracies that survived for generations because of careful attention to checking and balancing power."

#OtD 10 Dec 1983 Argentina’s right-wing military dictatorship ended. It was responsible for the murder and disappearance of approximately 30,000 people since 1976- mostly trade unionists, socialists, communists and Jews. Israel provided them with arms. stories.workingclasshistory.c...

Going to be interviewing Matt Vidal @chukker.bsky.social this Friday for the podcast about his recent book 'Management Divided - Contradictions of Labour Management'. A deep dive Marxist analysis of TPS/Lean manufacturing as it has been implemented in the US economy.

A doctor’s letter to United Healthcare for denying nausea meds for a child on chemo

New podcast out now for all! In Part 2, we talk to Mitch Troutman about attempts to repress the bootleg miners movement, the development of bootleg mining as a major industry, and the involvement of women, children and truckers in the movement workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e95-...

Try not to live a life that has most people celebrating your death

“It is like an Apocalypse:” Amnesty International finds Israel is deliberately undertaking Genocide against Palestinians of Gaza

manifest with today’s affirmation 🌸❤️🙏💕 The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,” its unit being a single commodity. Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a commodity.

Great to see this classic starting to get the attention it deserves!

Marx and Engels Collected Insults: a thread. Feel free to contribute: 1: "He is nothing but a social contradiction in action". Marx on Proudhon