Reading Struggles

Collected works of author, labor educator, and union organizer Kevin Van Meter.

Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter have a book chapter titled “Fifteen Theses on the US Labor Movement” in the forthcoming collection edited by our comrade Gabriel Kuhn. Workers' Power from Below: Rebuilding Syndicalism in the 21st Century will be released on Pluto Press in January 2027! About the book: Capitalism is in crisis, and class divisions are deepening worldwide. Labour is becoming increasingly mobile and precarious. This is the moment for syndicalist unions to advance

Quite pleased to be back at Historical Materialism London this November as part of the Workers and Capital stream with a paper titled—“Political Materials”: Between Inquiry and Intervention in Radical Social Movement Publications. The talk will cover Johnson-Forest Tendency / Correspondence, Chaulieu-Montal Tendency / Socialisme ou Barbarie, Italian Operaismo, Zerowork, Midnight Notes, and Processed World. The conference will be 5-8 of November 2026 and check out the conferen

Quite pleased that my recent interview with Daniel Gross is running in the Summer 2026 issue of New Politics print edition and online in some weeks time. Here is a preview of the introduction and opening question: "It is no secret that the labor movement in the United States is in trouble. The past few decades have been marked by a decline in overall union density coupled with aggressive anti-union employer campaigns in the private sector and recent attacks on federal worker