"Because without understanding how human society since our remotest ancestors has been created through social labor working people remain prisoners of the capitalist epoch in which we live.Without knowing how our labor transforms nature how its the motor force along humanitys ongoing road we...

A delegation of labour scholars and practitioners first came to our university, the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, in 2006, to engage with colleagues about establishing the Global Labour University on our campus. It was to be the second site after Germany, and we were all...

1. Introduction, by A. Briggs.--2. Keir Hardie's conversion to socialism, by F. Reid.--3. The Marxism of the Social Democratic Federation, by H. Collins.--4. The Leeds Corporation strike in 1913, by J. E. Williams.--5. The triple industrial alliance, 1913-1922, by P. S. Bagwell.--6. Ramsay...