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Building a Third Camp Tendency: An Interview with Samuel Farber
Full text linkSamuel Farber (1939-) is a prominent scholar, essayist, and political activist. Born and raised in Marianao, Cuba, Farber participated in the popular movement against the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship as a high school student. In 1958, he moved to the United States, where he shifted further left and embraced a third camp, anticapitalist/anti-Stalinist perspective. He took part in the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley and played an active role in the Independent Socialist Clubs (ISC) and its successor organization, the International Socialists (IS) during the 1960s and 1970s. In recent years he has become a prolific political commentator, contributing to numerous online and print publications, including Jacobin, New Politics, Foreign Policy in Focus, Havana Times, Spectre, Revista Sin Permiso, and La Joven Cuba (the last two in Spanish)
Jessica Borge, Protective Practices: A History of the London Rubber Company and the Condom Business (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020).
Full text linkTariq Ali, The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution (London and New York: Verso, 2017).
Full text linkNatasha Sumner and Aidan Doyle, eds., North American Gaels: Speech, Story, and Song in the Diaspora (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020).
Full text linkJacques Rossi and Michèle Sarde, Jacques the Frenchman: Memories of the Gulag. Edited by Golfo Alexopoulos. Translated by Kersti Colombant (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020).
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Identity Under Construction: Workers’ Collective in an Argentine Metallurgical Factory
Full text linkIn the 1970s, Argentina lived moments of great effervescence and labour conflict. The Santa Rosa metallurgical factory, located in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, became a centre of workers' struggle and resistance not only against the management and the state but also against certain union practices. From this factory, a union recovery movement was promoted that, in constant dialogue with the neighborhood and other factories in the area, disputed not only the leadership of the regional union but also the meaning of the union organization and of being a worker and a Peronist. In this article, I propose to analyze the process of construction of this workers’ collective that emerged from the experience at the workplace.
To understand the factory not just as a space but also as a process, as a social construction of a relational type allow us to see the determinations that this space exercises over the construction of the workers’ collective, reflecting forms of belonging and solidarity among the members of this collective that are more than just the sum of individualities. I will analyze this process of construction of the workers’ collective studying two specific conflicts that these workers carried out during the decade. We will observe how the factory space determined the constitution of an original working culture in constant dialogue with the trade union organization and with the other actors of the environment, focusing on the different responses that this collective of workers gave in different socio-political contexts
