Reading Struggles

INTRODUCING CLASS COMPOSITIONS (Opening remarks from Class Compositions in a Time of Fascism. Watch here.) Class Compositions is a new Common Notions book and event series dedicated to circulating the best militant research and theoretical interventions around from dynamic historical reproductions to cutting edge dispatches from new worlds just beginning to emerge. Our programming, including todays program, will draw on the rich autonomist tradition to aid militants and w

Kevin's Van Meters's opening remarks from Class Compositions in a Time of Fascism. Capitalism and the state engaged in class combat for nearly a hundred-fifty years. They tried to whittle union density down to under ten percent, they spent a hundred to undo New Deal programs, seventy-five to unravel the social contract and various productivity deals with sectors of the class. The ruling class fought for decades to undermine the gains of black liberation, indigenous, peasant,

Labor scholars and organizers Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter joined Professor Richard Wolff on Economic Update for a show titled "Resurgent Labor Organizing" this week. Rick interviewed Robert and Kevin about Marx's "A Workers' Inquiry," labor organizing in the US, and contemporary struggles of the working-class. Take a watch! Don't miss part one of this two part episode with our colleagues Alexander Pyne of the Blue Bottle Independent Union and economist Anastasia Wilson

“Amplifying forms of informal and formal organizing the workplace, amplifying and circulating struggles and informal practices of time theft or insubordination, all those things can only be understood from the perspective of the workers themselves.” For my second appearance on the Library Punk Podcast, I join Justin and Jay to chat about The American Worker pamphlet, Grace Lee Boggs and Phil Singer, Karl Marx and CLR James, workers’ inquiry and organizing in the US, and neig

Strike When the Needle is Hot Book Release for Labor Organizers. Take a watch and a listen!

Take a listen to the Library Punk Pod as cafe workers and militants talk about "class composition in the cafe sector."

Beginning with the 1947 publication of The American Worker pamphlet a new form of “proletarian literature” emerged from the automotive factories and corners of Marxian movements in the United States. The pamphlet begins by providing intimate, all-encompassing, and actual details about the functioning, power relationships, and autonomous nature of workers’ struggles in an auto factory—from the workers’ perspective. In this opening episode of the new season of All Hail To The P

For the past several years Shane Burley and Kevin Van Meter have engaged in a series of conversations on “Autonomous Anti-Fascism” and “Antifascism, Historically and in the Present.” Today they are joined by Ben Lorber for a conversation regarding the fight against antisemitism. Fighting antisemitism “through solidarity” doesn’t just create “safety” for “Jews and all people”; it allows us to directly confront the conspiratory core of contemporary fascist and rightwing argumen

Kevin Van Meter recently joined COVER for a seminar on The American Worker.

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

Stanley Aronowitz and "guerrillas of desire"

Kevin joins the Years of Lead Pod to talk about circulating struggles and The American Worker.

American Worker is a project to document the history of workers' inquiry and first-person narratives written by workers about their working lives in the United States between the publication of The American Worker pamphlet in 1947 and the present. Season 1: Search for The American Worker: will be a search for the identity of one of its authors; while exploring politics of authorship and voice, complexity of identity and power, neighboring pamphlets (on youth, housework, and

I want every morning to be a new year’s for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself.

Originally published in 2012, "To Care is to Struggle" appears in audiobook form on an anarchist podcast called Immediatism.

Kevin Van Meter speaks about "Counter-Planning" on the Old Mole Variety Hour this Labor Day.

New Edition of Mariarosa Dalla Costa's "Family, Welfare, and the State" out soon from Common Notions

On the importance of study groups!

Revisiting Orwell among the anarchists and the working class.