occupy movement

After the First of Many Last Resorts: on ports and activists

A brief piece critiquing activists' attempted management of the #Occupy "West Coast Port Shut Down" in Portland, Oregon.

Blockading the Port is Only The First of Many Last Resorts

A brief piece examining the relationship between #Occupy encampments and unions, and calling for a re-imagining of what a strike looks like in a largely post-industrial context.

Interviews with organizers: Canada’s postal struggles & the New School occupation

Submitted by Recomposition on Mar 31 2012 02:18

Two interviews with organizers in recent struggles.

*Dramatic Intro* The crisis of the Left: What’s really going in the ISO BOC debate?!?!

Black Orchid Collective takes on criticisms leveled at them by the International Socialist Organization, a Trotskyist influenced group in the United States.

Why M1GS?: lessons from Wisconsin

A piece from a union staffer in Wisconsin who saw the movement go from the potential of a general strike to just a recall, and how we should remember this in Occupy's efforts for a May 1st general strike.

A Wobbly speech from Occupy Portland

A member of the Portland IWW gives a speech at Occupy Portland.

Navigating negotiations

Submitted by Nate on Feb 22 2012 23:34
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Nate Hawthorne takes a look at how labor-capital structures of negotiation have changed in response to worker militancy and the state changing how it deals with what capitalists do. Along the way he gets into Joe Burns' new book, the ILWU-EGT conflict, the Occupy movement and 'direct unionism'.

Occupy Pisa: Via La Pergola evicted, the occupations continue!

Submitted by Italy Calling on Feb 19 2012 18:39

For background info and context on the Occupy Pisa past successes read this old article here.

On the Black Bloc - Salar Mohandesi

A critique of the black bloc, which the author sees as coming from a specific context, time and struggle. Now, stripped of these things, it has become both a tactic and identity with an implicit strategy of grabbing attention or creating autonomous space through street fighting and property destruction.

The surgeons of Occupy

Author Peter Gelderloos responds to Chris Hedges' anti-black bloc article.