Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class

The site of industrial struggle is shifting. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off the land to live and work in harsh and impoverished conditions. Inevitably, new methods of combating the spread of industrial capitalism are evolving in ambitious, militant and creative ways. This is the first book to theorise and examine the present and future shape of global class struggles.

Immanuel Ness looks at three key countries: China, India and South Africa. In each case he con...