1892 New Orleans General Strike
Submitted by Reddebrek on Feb 17 2019 13:28
An extract from Life in the Teamsters: The Civil Rights Movement documenting an early example of class solidarity in the segregationist southern USA.
Movie Review: VICE (2018)
A review of the movie about ex-Vice-President of the USA, Dick Cheney.
Class struggle frontiers in Hinterland
Submitted by Comrade Motopu on Feb 14 2019 00:01
Comrade Motopu provides an overview of Phil Neel’s book and attempts to place it in the ongoing debates over the centrality of labor movements vs. surplus populations and riots vs. strikes.
Picket Line Lessons: The UTLA Teacher Strike
Submitted by R Totale on Feb 6 2019 21:59
Members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra – Los Angeles who were involved in community mobilization in support of the strike and as members of UTLA provide their summary and analysis. The article highlights the community-worker nature of the strikes demands, the conditions of the settlement, the pitfalls of union leadership and labor law, as well as outlining next steps in the struggle.
A Tempest in Three Teapots: Yom Kippur Balls in London, New York, and Montreal
At the end of the 19th century a nascent tradition emerged in London, England among recent Jewish immigrants as an anti-religious celebration of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism. The event quickly spread to North America where it was taken up by other Yiddish speaking anarchists and socialists as a way of expressing their collective power in a celebratory environment and encouraging others to turn against superstition and religion.
Letters from inside: The 2018 Prison Strike
The Rustbelt Abolition Radio collective present a few of the extraordinary report backs and analyses from inside the 2018 US prison strike — some written in the infinitely long and lonely hours of solitary confinement.
LA Teachers Strike Over the Emptying Out of the City's Classroom
Submitted by AfricanPrint on Jan 26 2019 19:37
Following the six-day teachers' strike in Los Angeles, January 14-22, 2019, a look at union demands, contract results, and a union with a history of following the commands of the capitalist Democratic Party.
"The writing is on the walls": Interview with a striking LA teacher
Submitted by R Totale on Jan 23 2019 22:04
At the time of this writing, members of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) have been on strike for a total of six school days. The school district for which these teachers work, Los Angeles Unified, is the second largest in the United States. Salvo, a working-class paper for the greater LA area, spoke with Claire, a member of UTLA, about why teachers are striking over much more than a simple pay raise…
Yiddish radicalism, Jewish religion: Controversies in the Fraye Arbeter Shtime, 1937–1945
Submitted by wojtek on Jan 18 2019 12:48
Lilian Türk & Jesse Cohn's joint essay examining the debates over religion hosted in the Yiddish anarchist newspaper Fraye Arbeter Shtime.
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