construction

Pipelines, Pandemics and Capital’s Death Cult: A Green Syndicalist View

Sign saying, Call off the RCMP, We Stand on Stolen Land

Covid outbreaks at extractives industry sites bring together shared interests and concerns of the diverse working class—blue collar and white collar workers in various industries, Indigenous people, including site workers. This provides a green syndicalist analysis of these issues and convergence points of resistance.

Construction workers target NG Bailey and Balfour Beatty in de-skilling dispute

Submitted by R Totale on Mar 10 2021 21:53

Construction workers are taking ongoing action against major construction companies in response to an attempt to use lower-paid workers with less training to carry out vital electrical work.

The Green New Deal and the “rank-and-file strategy” - Gregory Butler

Gregory Butler argues that the DSA and Jacobin’s “rank-and-file strategy” in the construction industry consists mostly in pushing policy from above, leaving out worker concerns and worker organizing. This article was first published by Organizing Work.

Fighting Back - International Week of Action Against Unpaid Wages

Short pamphlet by the anarcho-syndicalist union the ZSP. ZSP is the Polish section of the International Workers Association. The pamphlet is about their experiences in countering wage theft, both successful and unsuccessful.

Social Cleansing & the End of Council Housing - Black Flag

Article from Black Flag #218 1999.

Privatisation and Gentrification, Reaction and Resistance, in Hackney's 'Regeneration State' – Black Flag

Article on gentrification in the London Borough of Hackney, from Black Flag #222 2002.

Five Theses on the Class Struggle - by Anton Pannekoek

Anton Pannekoek's classic manifesto against state socialism (democratic or otherwise) and for council communism, an industrial society governed by a democracy of workers' councils

Workers Launch Wave of Wildcat Strikes As Trump Pushes for ‘Return to Work’ Amidst Exploding Coronavirus

Submitted by R Totale on Mar 26 2020 21:56

A report on the spread of wildcat strikes in response to the coronavirus in the US. This article was first published by It's Going Down.

Dockers on strike in Bayonne

Submitted by Johanna Schellhagen on Jan 14 2020 06:59
Docker CGT strike Bayonne retraites pensions reform

In France, the movement against the new pension reform has been taking place since December 5th, 2019, and is getting stronger and stronger.
Interview with docker and CGT general secretary Dylan:
https://en.labournet.tv/dockers-strike-bayonne

Teesside Construction Workers Challenge the State

Submitted by Internationalis... on Jun 7 2019 09:29

On Thursday 30 May construction workers at the Tees Renewable Energy Plant, owned by MGT Power, walked out in a wildcat action over safety conditions at the site. When workers act on their own class terrain they begin to challenge the capitalist structure as a whole.