HTTP/2 301 server: nginx date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:38:59 GMT content-type: text/html content-length: 162 location: https://thecommune.wordpress.com/feed/ x-ac: 4.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=230.0 HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:39:00 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 vary: Accept-Encoding x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com vary: accept, content-type last-modified: Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:57:43 GMT x-nc: HIT dca 165 content-encoding: gzip x-ac: 3.bom _dca BYPASS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=BYPASS;dur=232.0 https://thecommune.wordpress.com for workers' power from below Sun, 22 Nov 2015 10:52:01 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ https://secure.gravatar.com/blavatar/9030bf1fa2799666e43df175c33fe90047133d8d6a9f56ae433bd9b9eca9adc6?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fs0.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png https://thecommune.wordpress.com https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/the-workers-inquiry-whats-the-point/ Fri, 04 Oct 2013 11:14:09 +0000 https://thecommune.co.uk/2013/10/04/the-workers-inquiry-whats-the-point/ the commune:
Joe Thorne looks at the history of the “workers’ inquiry” idea: from Marx, to Italy in the 1960s, to the present day.  This fairly long article touches on debates amongst those influenced by operaismo about how we should relate to the modern workplace. What can we learn from focussed investigations…]]> commie46 https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/what-went-wrong-with-the-winter-of-discontent-2/ Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:36:21 +0000 https://thecommune.co.uk/2013/09/30/what-went-wrong-with-the-winter-of-discontent-2/ the commune:
Often portrayed as responsible for bringing down a Labour government and ‘letting in’ Thatcher’s Tories, the 1978-79 ‘Winter of Discontent’ remains a high point in the history of the class struggle in Britain. by Sheila Cohen The Winter of Discontent (WoD) has not had a good press – either from…]]> commie46 https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/the-conspiracy-of-equals-and-the-birth-of-communism-2/ Sun, 29 Sep 2013 07:13:00 +0000 https://thecommune.co.uk/2013/09/29/the-conspiracy-of-equals-and-the-birth-of-communism-2/ the commune:
Jean Léger examines the history of Gracchus Babeuf and his ‘Conspiracy of Equals’, a communist organisation which emerged during the French Revolution. First appeared as ‘Babeuf et la naissance du communisme ouvrier’ in issue 2 of critical Marxist journal Socialisme ou Barbarie (May-June 1949). Babeuf was the first example of…]]> commie46 https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/review-of-a-classic-giovanni-arrighis-the-long-twentieth-century-2/ Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:18:21 +0000 https://thecommune.co.uk/2013/09/19/review-of-a-classic-giovanni-arrighis-the-long-twentieth-century-2/ the commune:
by Dan Jakopovich In The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times (1994), Arrighi centres his attention on the examination of systemic capitalist cycles of accumulation: their immanent logic, the interplay between the emerging and old powers (elements of systemic continuity and discontinuity), and the factors…]]> commie46 https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/a-syndicalism-for-the-21st-century-2/ Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:44:08 +0000 https://thecommune.co.uk/2013/09/18/a-syndicalism-for-the-21st-century-2/ the commune:
Sheila Cohen looks at the Great Unrest and the meaning for syndicalism today It seems unlikely that the centenary of the 1910-14 Great Unrest will gain much attention in the media – if, indeed, it gets a mention at all. But, for supporters of workers’ revolutionary self-activity, this is an…]]> commie46 https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/a-revolution-in-retreat-2/ Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:08:22 +0000 https://thecommune.co.uk/2013/09/17/a-revolution-in-retreat-2/ the commune:
Adam Ford reviews The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-24. Soviet workers and the new communist elite, by Simon Pirani, Routledge, 2008. “I cannot be that sort of idealist communist who believes in the new God That They Call The State, bows before the bureaucracy that is so far from the…]]> commie46 https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/making-a-killing-suicide-under-capitalism-2/ Sun, 15 Sep 2013 07:29:31 +0000 https://thecommune.co.uk/2013/09/15/making-a-killing-suicide-under-capitalism-2/ the commune:
Tom Denning writes on the social meaning of suicide Some years ago when the streets were filled with red flags, I saw two comrades die at home clutching a common gas tube.  Few of us cried then, and each of us knew that they were crying for themselves, for the…]]> commie46 https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/the-spanish-revolution/ Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:59:57 +0000 https://thecommune.co.uk/?p=8348 Continue reading the spanish revolution]]> duvinrouge CNT https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/government-coalition-targets-working-class-poor/ https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/government-coalition-targets-working-class-poor/#comments Sat, 08 Dec 2012 11:51:29 +0000 https://thecommune.co.uk/?p=8341 Continue reading government coalition targets working class poor]]> https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/government-coalition-targets-working-class-poor/feed/ 8 commie46 CapitalismIsntWorking https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/crisis-so-what-else-can-we-do/ https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/crisis-so-what-else-can-we-do/#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:48:28 +0000 https://thecommune.co.uk/?p=8296 Continue reading crisis! so what else can we do?]]> https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/crisis-so-what-else-can-we-do/feed/ 28 duvinrouge ComeTogether https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/britain-to-fight-austerity-we-need-a-united-left/ https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/britain-to-fight-austerity-we-need-a-united-left/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2012 06:29:09 +0000 https://thecommune.co.uk/?p=8250 Continue reading britain: ‘to fight austerity we need a united left’]]> https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/britain-to-fight-austerity-we-need-a-united-left/feed/ 28 duvinrouge strength_in_numbers https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/a-report-on-the-situation-in-greece/ https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/a-report-on-the-situation-in-greece/#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:18:37 +0000 https://thecommune.co.uk/?p=8190 Continue reading a report on the situation in greece]]> https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/a-report-on-the-situation-in-greece/feed/ 1 duvinrouge GreekProtestorKicksPoliceman https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/bnp-humiliated-in-dalkeith/ https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/bnp-humiliated-in-dalkeith/#comments Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:32:52 +0000 https://thecommune.co.uk/?p=8185 Continue reading bnp humiliated in dalkeith]]> https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/bnp-humiliated-in-dalkeith/feed/ 1 forworkerspower bnp_scotland_logo-01 https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/serwotka-sellout-sets-seal-on-olympic-exploitation/ https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/serwotka-sellout-sets-seal-on-olympic-exploitation/#comments Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:02:58 +0000 https://thecommune.co.uk/?p=8174 Continue reading serwotka sellout sets seal on olympic exploitation]]> https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/serwotka-sellout-sets-seal-on-olympic-exploitation/feed/ 4 forworkerspower tuc-acas-and-locog-sign-games-time-grievance-resolution-protocol