Combative Unionism: Clarifications to our position paper - Prairie Struggle
Shortly after the release of our position paper on “combative unionism” which sparked much criticism and legitimate questioning, members of Prairie Struggle set about reviewing the critiques and debating the position paper and its legitimacy. Though the process of creating this position paper entailed much debate and thought, the process is a continu- ous one.
International Council Correspondence Volume 4, Number 6
Living Marxism/International Council Correspondence, Vol. 4, no. 6, April 1939
International Council Correspondence Volume 2, Number 2
International Council Correspondence, Vol. 2, no. 2, January 1936
Turkey: When the workers make their voices heard
Submitted by Fredo Corvo on Mar 15 2016 06:48
In the current situation of global crisis and rampant local wars, Turkey has an important place. The tensions in this country are running high, both within the capitalist class(1) and between capital and labor. In this article we report on recent workers' struggles that develop in Turkey against the effects of the crisis. Workers are struggling despite state repression and attempts to divide workers.
Pushing Dust: Work Report from Greenford Street Cleansing Gangs
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Mar 8 2016 20:03
We look at the company structure, the work-mates, the re-structuring and how the trade union engages with it.
The dirty tricks of the Shrewsbury trials expose the dark heart of the radical 1970s - Paul Mason
Article by economist Paul Mason about the 1972 UK builders' strike that led to the Shrewsbury conspiracy trial. Reproduced here not as an endorsement of Mason's politics, but an interesting insight into worker radicalism in the UK in the 1970s.
Trade unions: pillars of capitalism - Internationalist Perspective
Interesting set of articles debating the nature of unions in capitalist society and how revolutionary workers should relate to them, from a pro-working class, left communist perspective.
Lessons of the collectives - Victor Alba
Published by Victor Alba, a former member of the POUM, in 2001, just before his death, this text addresses problems that the author believes will be faced by any resurgence of collectives of the kind formed in Spain during the Civil War, specifically problems of a “psychological” kind, warning that any future attempts to form collectives—in a society that has become an “amorphous mesocratic miasma” that has suppressed working class culture and militant traditions—will be dominated by a desire for more money and possessions rather than concerns about the environment, natural resources, and energy, for instance, which require the acceptance of “austerity”, and quality rather than quantity.
The South African Wobblies: The Origins of Industrial Unions in South Africa - John Philips
Submitted by Ed on Nov 21 2015 22:13
John Philip’s pioneering, hard-to-get study of syndicalism in South Africa, stressing the influence of the IWW.
The Rise and Fall of the ICU: a Case of Self-Destruction? - Phil Bonner
Submitted by Ed on Nov 20 2015 21:59
This essay, which first appeared in the South African Labour Bulletin, sought to draw the lessons of the spectacular rise and fall of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of Africa (ICU) in South Africa, which in the 1920s was the biggest black protest movement in the country.
Can comment on articles and discussions