Wobblyism: revolutionary unionism for today
A discussion paper by the Wobblyist Writing Group.
A CIO organizer in Alabama, 1941
Reports from an organizer involved in efforts to organize a Goodyear plant in Alabama in 1941.
Toward a history of the CIO: a bibliographical report
An essay by Robert H. Zieger on some of the various writings on the CIO up to 1985.
A martyr to his cause: the scenario of the first labor film in the United States
The background and script to A Martyr to His Cause, the first labor film, made in 1911 in defense of the McNamara brothers,who were accused of bombing the Los Angeles Times during a labor dispute.
Can fast food organising breathe new life into a dying labour movement?
Submitted by John E Jacobsen on Dec 8 2013 22:26
A piece on the recent fast food campaigns launched by SEIU – their origins, means, and prospects for revitalizing the labor movement in the U.S.
Fight Forward: Why the Fast Food Strikes Are Important to Housing Justice
Submitted by Eviction Free Zone on Dec 5 2013 18:02
As the fast food strikes heat up, there are a lot of reasons housing justice activists should come out to support them.
The anti-capitalist revolution in the west - Amadeo Bordiga
In this concise1953 programmatic text presented at the Genoa Meeting of the International Communist Party, Amadeo Bordiga sets forth a series of theses outlining the perspectives for revolution in the post-war world, and emphasizes that it will have to take place in the West, because of its more advanced capitalism, rather than in the less developed capitalism of Russia, based on Marx’s theory of the increasing productivity of labor and the falling rate of profit, and refers to the absence of a “communist party in the U.S. [with] an integral revolutionary program”, despite the maturity of the objective conditions there, as a “major historical problem”.
Class Struggle/Supply Chains, Los Angeles, Nov 29 & Dec 14
Submitted by Empire Logistics on Nov 27 2013 06:04
Presentations: Class Struggle Along Global Supply Chains, Parts I & II. If you are in or near Southern California, please join us for these explorations of the possibility of class struggles spreading along commodity chains. November 29, 7:00 p.m. & December 14, 3:00 p.m. at The Public School Los Angeles
Punishing the poor: The neoliberal government of social insecurity - Loïc Wacquant
As well as serving an economic function, Loïc Wacquant argues that the transformation from welfare to mass incarceration and prison/workfare is an exercise in statecraft; with the disappearance of the 'ghetto', a way of re-establishing subjugation along class, gender and racial lines.
Fast food unionism: the unionization of McDonald’s and the McDonaldization of unions
IWW organizer Erik Forman gives a broad background of the fast food industry, business union tactics, and draws out some directions that an autonomous movement of fast food workers could take to remedy the issues he identifies.
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