mark g
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no one yet has determined what the nobody can do
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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
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
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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
I always really appreciated the viewpoint project. RIP Asad Haider:
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Asad Haider, Author at Viewpoint Magazine
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December 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I always really appreciated the viewpoint project. RIP Asad Haider:
viewpointmag.com/author/asad-...
viewpointmag.com/author/asad-...
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
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
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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
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#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...
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
#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
December 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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
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:
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.
June 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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:
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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...
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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March 28, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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...
If not, uh, well, sorry I guess?
lawcha.org/2025/03/27/w...
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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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February 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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...
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#OtD 27 Feb 1933 Dutch bricklayer and council communist Marinus van der Lubbe set fire to the Reichstag in protest at Nazis hoping it would spark working class rebellion. Sadly it failed and was used by fascists as an excuse to repress communists stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...
February 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
#OtD 27 Feb 1933 Dutch bricklayer and council communist Marinus van der Lubbe set fire to the Reichstag in protest at Nazis hoping it would spark working class rebellion. Sadly it failed and was used by fascists as an excuse to repress communists stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...
Not the most important part as such but the boomer-zoomer alliance comments were hilarious. >
🍔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.
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Brooklyn Rail and @endnotesjournal.bsky.social contributor Phil Neel returns to explain value-form to Americans by asking us to 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘳.
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E280: Imagining the Burger Reich w/ Phil Neel | The Antifada
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February 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Not the most important part as such but the boomer-zoomer alliance comments were hilarious. >
Bev Best interview on the Automatic Fetish and capital 3 with Sean O’Brien up at @endnotesjournal.bsky.social
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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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February 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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...
endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...
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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
February 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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
Damn, that sounds depressing
February 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Damn, that sounds depressing
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)
January 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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)
Was prompted to look at this book again and now I thinking we should bring back letters as forum for debate etc
(Also 2 dear comrades of my own gifted me this about 15 years ago and it was nice to read their messages in the cover again after all that time)
(Also 2 dear comrades of my own gifted me this about 15 years ago and it was nice to read their messages in the cover again after all that time)
January 17, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Was prompted to look at this book again and now I thinking we should bring back letters as forum for debate etc
(Also 2 dear comrades of my own gifted me this about 15 years ago and it was nice to read their messages in the cover again after all that time)
(Also 2 dear comrades of my own gifted me this about 15 years ago and it was nice to read their messages in the cover again after all that time)
“…this revolution is necessary, therefore…because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew…”
October 19, 2023 at 6:37 AM
“…this revolution is necessary, therefore…because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew…”