Class Power!

Since 2014, the small collective AngryWorkers has been living, working, organizing, and fighting in Greenford, London—a key hub in the metropolis’s contemporary economy. From here, the mostly precariously employed workers in the area’s factories and logistics centers supply a large part of the city with food and other goods.

It is precisely here that the AngryWorkers have taken on temporary and poorly paid jobs in logistics centers and warehouses, ready-meal factories, and 3D printing facilities. They have also become involved in trade unions and built friendships. They have published a newspaper, initiated the occasional strike, and established a solidarity network that provides direct support when conflicts arise with bosses or landlords. After work, they documented their experiences with this revolutionary organizing effort.

Class Power! offers detailed accounts of local living and working conditions and describes attempts at political organizing. The book also stands out for its insightful and incisive examination of the political and economic context, as well as current issues such as the racialization of labor, automation, and reproductive labor.

This book is anything but an “academic” study of the working class. Drawing on several years of direct experience and political intervention, the authors have developed proposals for a new, revolutionary class politics based on their experiences, observations, and conclusions—one that emphasizes cooperation and creativity in everyday life.

For anyone searching for new paths toward an emancipated society, this book is a worthwhile read.