
Issue 3 of Notes from Below, The Worker and The Union, asks how working class self-organisation is changing today. In the context of the long decline of trade union membership and strike action since the 1980s, this issue investigates the possibility of a rank-and-file revival. What we are interested in here, in class composition terms, is the leap from technical and social recomposition to political recomposition Without such a leap, socialism will remain an abstract utopia in an concretely dystopian world. So, socialist strategy necessitates a serious and clear-headed approach to the issue of recomposition. How likely does it seem? What are its initial outlines? What can we do to to push it forwards? To this end, we are very pleased to present Issue 3 of Notes from Below, The Worker and The Union.
See the editorial for an overview of articles in the issue.
August, 2018

theory
The Worker and the Union: Issue 3 Editorial
by
The Editors
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Aug. 16, 2018

inquiry :: Platform Capitalism
A Union at Amazon?
by
Marvin Harvey
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Aug. 16, 2018

inquiry :: UCU pension strike / Higher Education
Looking Back in Anger: the UCU strikes
by
Jamie Woodcock,
Sai Englert
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Aug. 30, 2018

inquiry :: Platform Capitalism
Amazon Is the New FIAT
by
Alessandro Delfanti
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Aug. 16, 2018

inquiry :: Platform Capitalism
The Workers Will See You Now: Organising with the IWGB
by
Jim Benfield
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Aug. 16, 2018

bulletins :: Platform Capitalism
Rebel Roo Bulletin
by
Rebel Roo
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Aug. 16, 2018

inquiry :: Housing
Taking What’s Ours: an ACORN Inquiry
by
Callum Cant
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Aug. 16, 2018

bulletins :: Housing
ACORN on the Doorstep: a collection of renters' bulletins
Aug. 16, 2018

inquiry :: Housing
Chicken or Egg, Political Education and Working-class Power
by
Rohan Kon
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Aug. 16, 2018

inquiry :: Housing
Territorial Inquiry: Living Rent public walk in Partick and Whiteinch
by
Living Rent
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Aug. 16, 2018

inquiry :: Manufacturing / International
No Union, No Problem: Anatomy of a Vietnamese Wildcat
by
Joe Buckley
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Aug. 16, 2018

inquiry :: Transport
Troublemakers or Insurance Sellers? The Role of RMT on the Underground
by
Daniel Randall
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Aug. 16, 2018

inquiry :: Supermarkets
Human Shields and Supermarket Managers
by
Max O’Donnell Savage
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Aug. 16, 2018
