The Condition of the Working Class in New Zealand in 1890
In 1842 Friedrich Engels, the 22-year-old son of a German textile manufacturer, was sent to Manchester, England, to work in the family business. Manchester was at the time the centre […]
Monthly Archives: April 2015
Origins of the working class in New Zealand
The modern proletariat is a propertyless class. Evicted from the land, dispossessed of the means of life, the proletarians are thereby compelled, under threat of starvation, to sell their labour-power […]
The many claimants to the political legacy of Thomas Sankara
(Last in a series based on a visit to West Africa in December and January) At various locations in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, there are monuments to the achievements […]
A worker at large 