Green Syndicalism in the Arctic
Inspirational action showing the power of Indigenous land defense and how solidarity can be manifest in significant ways in contexts where companies are working to sow divisions between resource workers and Indigenous communities. A powerful response to those who claim that the interests of resource workers will leave them somehow fundamentally opposed to Indigenous land struggles.
Pipelines, Pandemics and Capital’s Death Cult: A Green Syndicalist View
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.
Class Consciousness and Working Class Emancipation
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 2 2021 12:26
Discussion with the Angry Workers of the World (AWW)
The Alliance Syndicaliste on Kropotkin, Malatesta and Bakunin
A three-part series of articles from 1975/6, written by the Alliance syndicaliste révolutionnaire et anarcho-syndicaliste (ASRAS), published in their newspaper Solidarité Ouvrière. The articles take a critical approach to aspects of Kropotkin and Malatesta, whilst offering forward parts of Bakunin as a remedy to their faults.
Bows and Arrows: Indigenous Workers, IWW Local 526, and Syndicalism on the Vancouver Docks
Submitted by greensyndic on Feb 17 2021 04:39
The first union on the waterfront of so-called Vancouver was organized by Indigenous workers, mostly Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh. And it was organized on an explicitly syndicalist basis as Local 526 of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), which would become known as the Bows and Arrows. The Bows and Arrows took an active, politically militant approach with a commitment to Indigenous solidarity and organized on a multicultural/multiracial foundation of class solidarity.
“The Rank and File Strategy”: A Syndicalist View - Tom Wetzel
Veteran activist and writer Tom Wetzel enters the wide ranging debate on the left around the “rank and file strategy” orientation to the labor movement. This piece is based on material in his forthcoming book from AK Press, Overcoming Capitalism, and was first published by the Black Rose Anarchist Federation.
What’s Wrong with the Unions? A Syndicalist Answer
A look from the 1950s at the limitations of Trade Unions, and a recommendation of a syndicalist approach to organising.
The Origins of Collective Decision-Making by Andy Blunden
A history of majority and consensus decision-making structures used by direct-democratic assemblies of the sort advocated for by libertarian socialists
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