From 3 to 10
December, I visited Sao Paulo/Brazil for several lectures and also had the
opportunity to speak to representatives of the local metalworkers’ trade union
as well as the Florestan Fernandes National School (ENFF) of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), outside the city.
In this blog post, I will reflect on comrades’ perceptions about how the rise
of the right in Brazil around Bolsonaro can be contested and what the future
may hold for radical social movements.
The
outcome of the 2019 UK general elections dealt a huge blow to the Labour Party
and its policy programme around issues of social justice. In this post, I am
reflecting on the causes of the defeat, the things to come as well as possible
next steps for the party. I will argue that we must not succumb to the
vilification of Jeremy Corbyn, be it by the right-wing media, be it by the
right inside our own party.
The
Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) at the University of
Nottingham organised a one-day workshop Revisiting
the ‘Mode of Production’: Enduring Controversies over Labour, Exploitation and
Historiographies of Capitalism on the 1st July 2019. The event
was dedicated to the re-examination of two important debates in historical
materialism related to the conceptualisation of the mode of production and
domestic labour that were thriving in the 1970s and attracted fresh interest
more recently. The organisers of the event were delighted to host two
distinguished contributors, Jairus Banaji and Silvia Federici as keynote
speakers who presented alongside other prominent authors, including Andreas
Bieler, Tony Burns, Neil Davidson, Jens Lerche, Alessandra Mezzadri and Benno
Teschke. In this guest post Jokubas
Salyga and Kayhan Valadbaygi share
video-recorded proceedings of the event.