Karl Marx once wrote, “As for me, I am no Marxist.” He was a wise man. To call oneself a Marxist risks imprisonment in a static ideology, while Marx continually re-evaluated his previous work, regarding it as an unfinished project. In fact, at the end of his life, he was reformulating one of his most important contributions to human understanding, his theory of history.
I have been a member of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSME), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and the National Education Association (NEA). My articles on the labor movement have appeared in New Labor Forum, Labor Notes, Dollars and Sense, Industrial Worker, Workplace, The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History, and Steal This University, as well as other books and publications.
Below, you will find my writings about Marx, movements inspired by him, and my own Marx-inflected involvement in labor activism. You will also find articles from my political journalism.
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| REPORTS FROM ATHENS ON THE DEBT CRISIS A series of reports I wrote for Open Media Boston while attending the Open University Symposium in Athens, Greece as a guest lecturer on Philosophy in 2015. |
| UNION STRUGGLES IN ACADEMIA Features my articles about academic institutions and unions. |
| CONTINGENT WORKERS My articles about contingent work and workers. |
| MISCELLANEOUS POLITICS My written works including thoughts on Bernie Sanders and 2016 Presidential Election, Occupy, and other related materials. |
| REPORTS FROM ATHENS ON THE DEBT CRISIS |
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| Reports from Athens on the Debt Crisis are a series of reports I wrote for Open Media Boston while attending the Open University Symposium in Athens, Greece as a guest lecturer on Philosophy in 2015. Exarchia, is an anarchist neighborhood. I photographed wile in Athens. You will find a link to these photos below. Open Media Boston: External links to the reports as geatured on Open Media Boston |
| Report #1 from Athens: by Gary Zabel – Open Media Boston (11 July 2015 – 6:02pm) |
| Report #2 from Athens: by Gary Zabel – Open Media Boston (12 July 2015 – 9:48pm) |
| Report #3 from Athens: by Gary Zabel – Open Media Boston (13 July 2015 – 11:50am) |
| Report #4 from Athens: by Gary Zabel – Open Media Boston (13 July 2015 – 4:54pm) |
| Report #5 from Athens: by Gary Zabel – Open Media Boston (14 July 2015 – 5:19pm) |
| Report #6 from Athens: by Gary Zabel – Open Media Boston (15 July 2015 – 2:28pm) |
| Report #7 from Athens: by Gary Zabel – Open Media Boston (15 July 2015 – 9:05pm) |
| Report #8 from Athens: by Gary Zabel – Open Media Boston (21 July 2015 – 7:34pm) |
| EXARCHIA 2015: Photographs I took of Exarchia, an anarchist neighborhood in Athens, Greece |
| External links below for the above articles on Open Media Boston: http://www.openmediaboston.org/content/report-1-athens-3097 http://www.openmediaboston.org/content/report-2-athens-3098 http://www.openmediaboston.org/content/report-3-athens-3099 http://www.openmediaboston.org/content/report-4-athens-3100 http://www.openmediaboston.org/content/report-5-athens-3102 http://www.openmediaboston.org/content/report-6-athens-3103 http://www.openmediaboston.org/content/report-7-athens-3104 http://www.openmediaboston.org/content/report-8-athens-3105 |
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| UNION STRUGGLES IN ACADEMIA |
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| Union Struggles In Academia features my articles about academic institutions and unions. |
| Adjunct Faculty Organizing in Boston: Authors Gary Zabel & Harry Brill – Workplace – Journal for Academic Labor #3 April 1999 |
| Social Movement – Unionism and Adjunct Faculty Organizing in Boston: Authors Gary Zabel and Barbara Gottfried from Steal This University, Routledge |
| The Boston University Strike of 1979: Author Gary Zabel – Published as a chapter of the Encyclopedia of Strikes in America, ME Sharpe, 2009. |
| Critical Revolutionary Praxis: Zabel, G. (2018). Critical Revolutionary Praxis in the Neoliberal University. Workplace, 30, 135-154. |
| What Does the Victory of Educators for a Democratic Union Mean?: by Gary Zabel (16 May 2014) |
| Union Democracy: By Gary Zabel – Published in Radical Boston, Open Media Boston |
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| CONTINGENT WORK & WORKERS |
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| Hidden Connections – Higher Education and the Expansion of Contingent Work in the United States: Author Gary Zabel – Published in la Question sociale, Paris, 2005 |
| Campaign on Contingent Work: Le réseau militant de lutte contre la précarité – Interview de Tim Costello, avec la participation de Gary Zabel – Octobre 2000 |
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| MISCELLANEOUS POLITICS |
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| Miscellaneous Politics: My written works including thoughts on Bernie Sanders and 2016 Presidential Election, Occupy, and other related materials. |
| Occupy as a Vanguard Communist Movement: Author Gary Zabel |
| Middlesex Municipal and Cooperative Ownership Alliance: A Socialist Project for Middlesex County, Massachusetts |
| Fascism in Reverse and the US Working Class: by Gary Zabel |
| ARTICLES RELATING TO THE US ELECTION 2016: These are articles I wrote about Bernie Sanders and the US Presidential Election in 2016. |
| Lessons From The Past For Sanders Political Revolution: BINJ Dispatch #1 from Our Man in Philadelphia by Gary Zabel (07–24–16) |
| SANDERS DELEGATES IN A WHITE-HOT ROOM: BINJ Dispatch #2 from Our Man in Philadelphia Bby Gary Zabel. (07–26–16) |
| Inside Outside: BINJ Dispatch #3 from Our Man in Philadelphia by Gary Zabel (07–27–2016) |
| Steady Work: BINJ Dispatch #4 from Our Man in Philadelphia by Gary Zabel (07–30–16) |
| A Fascist in the White House?: BINJ Reports, by Gary Zabel (December 2016) |
| ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN DIGBOSTON |
| When Massachusetts Was Socialist: by Gary Zabel – DigBoston (January 9, 2020) |
| What Kind Of Revolution Is Bernie Sanders Launching?: by Gary Zabel – DigBoston (October 24, 2017) |
| The Republican Party Is Now Our Version Of The French National Front: by Gary Zabel – DigBoston (OCTOBER 29, 2017) |
| Safe Space Socialism: by Gary Zabel – DigBoston (NOVEMBER 16, 2017) |
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