Anarchist social organization
Draft thoughts on strategy for American anarchists
What's at stake in the health care debate?
The debate in the United States over how to provide health care to a nation increasingly burdened by the costs and dissatisfied with the status quo has returned with a vengeance. S Nicholas Nappalos comes at these issues as a nurse and organizer, and tries to unpack the implications of the growing health crisis, what alternatives we really have, and what health for-and-by workers and the community could look like.
Messengers of transition: The 2016 election and the undermining of recent politics
Dismantling our divisions: craft, industry, and a new society
Moving the shadow of eternity: time, change, agency, and emergence in pursuit of liberation
Is there a revolutionary method?
Dividing our lives: time as a concept of struggle
Liberation as transformation
A piece about humanism, reform, and a case against linear ideas of social transformation through reforms.
Review of The New Brazil: regional imperialism and the new democracy.
Originally posted to the South Florida IWW blog. The following piece is a review by Miami IWW member, Scott Nikolas Nappalos. He provides thorough overview of The New Brazil: Regional Imperialism and the New Democracy where he explains Brazil’s economic and political history and analyze the concept of imperialism. It is a well written piece and we recommend everyone to read more below.
Healthcare is only a tiny part of health
[originally posted to the South Florida IWW blog] The following piece is written by Miami IWW member, Scott Nikolas Nappalos. This particular article is undeniably keen and highlights the setbacks of the healthcare system. It also explains how healthcare militants should go further than just changing the health system, but to also develop healthcare that enhances it’s ethics and values. Therefore, we recommend to read more below and hope that you will enjoy this piece.
The necessity of experimentation and the immanence of change today
A short piece on the uncertainty of the present and the need for experimentation and creativity.
Politics as an alienated sphere of life
A short article on politics as an alienated separation of social life, and the need for constructing collective practices that challenge the divisions and relationships that constitute political activity in favor of libertarian alternatives.
State intervention to save capitalism: the IWW and the state
Methods and concepts are tools for emanicipation: a critique
Unity for what and with whom? A polemic against left unity
Lessons from a social service worker’s strike
Emergence is a revolution in human thinking
Lever points: complex systems and potentialities for liberation
A Politics of humanity: towards a critique of conflict, identity, and transformation
This is a draft of some ideas I’m working through critiquing the role of identification with existing social divisions within capitalism as a transition to the abolition of such divisions. It’s in a rough state, and I’d appreciate constructive contributions.