My guess is that, for many, the union’s apparently successful defense counts as a victory.  But suppose the standard for victory is a different one—the standard of increased unity across the working class.  In that case, the judgment is not so clear.   In the case of public schools in the United States, increased unity across […]

Introduction A few months ago, a participant in a listserv that I belong to posted a proposal for “A Day without Teachers” in solidarity with the members of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) who subsequently went on strike for seven days in September.  See my article on the strike in this issue.  For what it’s […]

In Love and Capital, published in 2011, Mary Gabriel makes a really good case that love was at the center of the life of the revolutionary named Karl Marx.  She does so by situating what might be considered the biography of Marx’s public life in the biography of his personal life.  Although she includes the […]