Socialist Leaders Won’t Save Unions
An article from the Organizing Work blog that offers a structural account of the role played by unions and the pressures that cause union leaders to act in the ways they do, in response to a recent Jacobin article calling for socialist union leadership.
The anarchists and workers’ societies - Errico Malatesta
Malatesta on anarchist roles in unions
In Defense Of A/S: Unionism
Submitted by Ivysyn on Apr 19 2019 15:39
A defense of labor unions in Anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary strategy
Trade Unionism and the Asian Youth Movements
Submitted by Ed on Feb 11 2019 23:19
A look at the engagement of Asian Youth Movement activists with workers' struggles and the British trade union movement.
E09: The Industrial Workers of the World in the US, 1918-1950s
Podcast episode about the later history of the revolutionary union the Industrial Workers of the World 1918-1950s. We went to Chicago to talk to our friend Warren to learn more about this little-known period in the union’s history.
German Artisans and Artisan movements in the 1840s
An article about the conditions of the working class in the German States and Vienna in the 1840s and the early beginnings of class consciousness it provoked and its expression in the 1848 revolutions.
Is an over-supply of labour depressing wages?
Submitted by QQ on Oct 30 2018 19:10
Are trade union bureaucrats correct in saying Marx believed an over-supply of labour depresses wages? We take a look at what Marx called "the absolute general law of capitalist accumulation" to discover if this is true.
Report on the 2018 IWW Organising Summit
Submitted by Reddebrek on Oct 21 2018 19:24
My notes on the UK IWW's organising summit in Sheffield.
1960- Japan's Coal Miners Strike
Submitted by Reddebrek on Aug 27 2018 01:20
A history of Japan podcast about the massive coalminers strike in Miike on the island of Kyushu in 1960, and its impact on the Japanese economy, Japanese unions and the Japanese left.
