Jonathan Strauss
Working class stratification, education and politics in Australia
Nick Fredman and Jonathan Strauss examine new mass left-wing formations, such as the Australian Greens, and explore the political effects of the changing nature of education under late capitalism.
Brazil: First International Anti-Fascist Conference organises against the far right
Jonathan Strauss & Clive Tillman — The first International Anti-Fascist Conference for the Sovereignty of Peoples, held in Porto Alegre, was an important step forward in organising the struggle against the far right across the Americas and internationally.
Friedrich Engels and the theory of the labour aristocracy
Jonathan Strauss considers the scope and significance of the theory of the labour aristocracy and its application by Engels to understanding the politics of the English working class.
Lessons of Russia's October 1917 revolution (Part II) — What kind of revolutionary organisation?
Read Part I “Coup or mass insurrection?” here.
Lessons of Russia's October 1917 revolution (Part I) — Coup or mass insurrection?
"October is still ground zero for arguments about fundamental, radical social change.
The labour aristocracy and working-class politics
The theory of the labour aristocracy argues that opportunism in the working class has a material basis.
