Author: Robert Ovetz
ROBERT OVETZ, PHD, is a precarious university lecturer in political science. He is the editor of Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies, Tactics, Objectives (Pluto, 2020), author of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 (Brill, 2018; Haymarket, 2019), and book review editor of the Journal of Labor and Society.
Workers’ inquiries are identifying working-class self-activity in various sectors, understanding the class struggle from the working-class point of view, and allowing workers to develop their own knowledge of who their work is organized in order to identify vital new tactics and strategies that can allow them to push their struggles forward.
Robert Ovetz describes the significance of a new collection of Rosa Luxemburg’s writings on revolution from 1906 to 1909, recently published in English.
An excerpt from We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few. Direct self-organization makes a constitutional system unnecessary while simultaneously dismantling the rule of property.
The attempt to deskill teaching in higher education is hardly new. Technology is being used to transform the academic worker into a “conscious linkage” of the machine.
