This article examines the economic and political crisis in Egypt. It does so by situating it within the context of Egypt's reliance upon us assistance and argues that the current structural adjustment programme will provide greater opportunity for mobilisation against the state.
The author critically reviews the debate on the overcoming of the Fordist model and proposes a flexible production model in which class antagonism is still central.
The authors reexamine the development of labour process theory since Braverman's Labour and Monopoly Capitalism. They argue that its demise can be linked to its conflation of labour process theory with organisation theory; it has failed to provide an adequate theoretical basis for revolutionary politics.
The dominant culturalist analysis of youth training is challenged, both because of its empiricism and because its ideology and politics are unhinged from material organisation. Youth training programmes are designed to restructure class relations, and resistance to them is part of a struggle 'in and against' the state.
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