Class Politics Now

Populist insurgencies. Creeping authoritarianism. Deepening class fragmentation. This is the volatile landscape created by late-stage capitalism. In the years since the 2008 financial crash, movements from Occupy, to the gilets jaunes, to the Fight for $15 have repeatedly mobilized working people against austerity, inequality, and precarity - and repeatedly failed to consolidate lasting power. While most analyses of this late neoliberal working-class disempowerment stop at diagnosis, Class Politics Now offers concrete theory for showing how we can turn today's scattered progressive movements into durable collective power capable of challenging the status quo. Focusing on how class politics can be reconnected in practice, this book offers a framework for reconstructing transformative politics in the twenty-first century.