Proletarian health and working class environmentalism research and writing project level up
mark g
@furiousaffects.bsky.social
no one yet has determined what the nobody can do
Short note to say that crimes of class by Nick and I is in the world as a book, published by the excellent friends at @rosa-collective.bsky.social, available here rosapress.net/product/crimes…
Short note to say that crimes of class by Nick and I is in the world as a book, published by the excellent friends at @rosa-collective.bsky.social, available here rosapress.net/product/crimes…
Crimes of Class by Mark Gawne and Nick Southall is now available on the Rosa website! $25 plus shipping. Get your hands on this glorious book, typeset by Dennis Grauel and featuring a Preface by Chelsea Hart. One for the ages! rosapress.net/product/crim...
Crimes of Class – Rosa Press
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#OtD 12 Mar 1977 authorities shut down Radio Alice, a radical pirate radio station in Bologna, during a rebellion in response to the police murder of Francesco Lorusso. The station had been an essential hub for workers, students, feminists & gay groups stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8419...
What does Epstein’s household economy reveal about the billionaire far-right? Melinda Cooper traces the disturbing logic connecting primal patriarchy, transhumanism, and the rule of masters over servants. www.equator.org/articles/eps...
Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR
The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants
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& friend of Rosa, Liz Humphrys says: "Essential reading for scholars, activists and the outraged, and for those who want to think more deeply about the chasm between legal notions of right and wrong and whose interests they serve."
"...Gawne and Southall have an uncanny ability to connect the dots between personal and regional histories from below and capitalist backlash on a global scale. This book will become a classic of the Australian left."
friend of Rosa, @melindacooper.bsky.social says this about Crimes of Class: "...a truly moving work of political memoir and a profound reflection on the relationship between capitalism, crime and resistance..." (con'td)
Rosa Press is very excited to announce that we will be publishing Crimes of Class by @furiousaffects.bsky.social and Nick Southall in March. A Sydney launch is planned for 3–6pm, Saturday March 28 at Frontyard Projects in Marrickville.
#OtD 20 Dec 1969 the funeral of Giuseppe Pinelli took place in Milan, Italy. The funeral was a mass demonstration in protest at the police murder of the anarchist rail worker as part of the strategy of tension stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1266...
a story of a proletarian, workers control iteration of workplace safety/environmentalism and its confrontation with the state, and a critique of OHS legislation as corporatist and technocratic while public health measures divert the struggles in the following decade
mark g@furiousaffects.bsky.social · 8mo agoTomorrow I am giving a talk “no toxic jobs: working class environmentalism and proletarian health in the fight against capitalist toxicity at port Kembla”. I’ll be talking about workers health centres, a strike, deindustrialisation & the state. It’s 9am in Sydney & can share zoom if u are interested
I always really appreciated the viewpoint project. RIP Asad Haider: viewpointmag.com/author/asad-...
Asad Haider, Author at Viewpoint Magazine
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a story of a proletarian, workers control iteration of workplace safety/environmentalism and its confrontation with the state, and a critique of OHS legislation as corporatist and technocratic while public health measures divert the struggles in the following decade
mark g@furiousaffects.bsky.social · 8mo agoTomorrow I am giving a talk “no toxic jobs: working class environmentalism and proletarian health in the fight against capitalist toxicity at port Kembla”. I’ll be talking about workers health centres, a strike, deindustrialisation & the state. It’s 9am in Sydney & can share zoom if u are interested
#OtD 3 Dec 1916 seven members of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World in Australia were sentenced to 15 years in prison for their anti-war efforts. Others were sentenced to 5 and 10 years. More about the Australian @IWW in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2019/01/28/e...
Tomorrow I am giving a talk “no toxic jobs: working class environmentalism and proletarian health in the fight against capitalist toxicity at port Kembla”. I’ll be talking about workers health centres, a strike, deindustrialisation & the state. It’s 9am in Sydney & can share zoom if u are interested
hey bluesky, I'd be grateful if you'd read this thing I wrote lawcha.org/2025/09/15/s...
Save Our History: Matewan, Memory, and the State Historical Society of Iowa | LAWCHA
I know you’re busy, dear labor history colleagues, so I’m going to put this ask right at the top even though it messes up the flow of my essay a little:
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Helped write this piece for Heatwave (a new anarchist and communist publication from the US which we should support and follow). Thoughts and criticism of the article most welcome:
Heatwave Magazine@htwvmag.bsky.social · last yr.Two of our friends from Wollongong share their thoughts and experiences from the blockade of Bisalloy Steel. Through a clever set of tactics, picketers have disrupted over 100 operation hours at this veritable merchant of death supplying the IDF.
hey bluesky, if you've been sitting there thinking 'god I really need to hear some of Nate's thoughts on Marxism and labor history' then I have great news for you!!!! If not, uh, well, sorry I guess? lawcha.org/2025/03/27/w...
Where does Marxism in Labor History Come From? Where Does It Go? | LAWCHA
I read the recent report on the Business History Conference by Michael Hilliard and Chad Pearson with great interest. I count myself among the
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Essential reading, by Bhandar and Toscano on Trump’s “real estate ontology”, the end of presumed relations btw sovereignty, territory, and property; and the place of Gaza in this naked imperium proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...
Slumlord Empire • Protean Magazine
In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a tu...
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Not the most important part as such but the boomer-zoomer alliance comments were hilarious. >
This Wreckage Podcast@thiswreckage.bsky.social · last yr.🍔E280: Imagining the Burger Reich🍔 Brooklyn Rail and @endnotesjournal.bsky.social contributor Phil Neel returns to explain value-form to Americans by asking us to 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘳. www.patreon.com/posts/e280-i...
Bev Best interview on the Automatic Fetish and capital 3 with Sean O’Brien up at @endnotesjournal.bsky.social endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...
The Perceptual Physics of Capital by Beverly Best, Sean O’Brien
Endnotes is a communist theoretical journal produced by a discussion group of the same name based in Britain and the US.
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my favourite story on the history of Capital is Bakunin promising to translate it into Russian and then just pocketing the cash and not doing any work
working on a project drawing from Stefania Barca & Lorenzo Feltrin’s respective work on working class environmentalism & noxious deindustrialisation but in Wollongong. Was doing archives yesterday so here’s a few graphics & words (from The Iron Worker, Work Hazards, & Rank & File: Workers Health)
