When the union's the enemy: an interview with Cleo Silvers
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 23 2014 09:16
Cleo Silvers, a former organizer with the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, discusses racism in the labor movement with Andrew Elrod.
Choke points: mapping an anticapitalist counter-logistics in California - Degenerate Communism
While it is indisputably within the sphere of production that the value-form is created and the obfuscation of social relations under capital begins, perhaps the notion that it is within sphere of circulation that the value-form can begin to be destroyed necessitates more tactical experiments explicitly targeting this realm in the US context of struggles.
The promise of an anarchist anthropology: the three burials on the anarchist project - Natalia Buier
In this article, anthropologist Natalia Buier discusses David Graeber’s proposition of an anarchist anthropology. She focuses on three key issues: Graeber’s understanding of ethnography and its role within the politics of anthropology, his reading of the anarchist tradition, and his involvement with the Occupy Wall Street movement as a concrete example of the limitations of the political project of an anarchist anthropology. The argument of the article is that Graeber’s representation of the discipline of anthropology, together with his partial reading of the anarchist tradition, run counter to a political and analytic focus that centralizes the notions of class and exploitation.
The Presidio mutiny, 1968 - Randy Rowland
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 21 2014 12:53
A personal account by a participant of the Presidio mutiny, a sitdown protest of soldiers in military prison against the killing of an inmate during the Vietnam war. 27 mutineers then faced the death penalty, which triggered national outrage.
Ain't marchin' anymore: GIs revolt in Vietnam - Dave Blalock
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 21 2014 12:37
A short account from Vietnam veteran, Dave Blalock, about his experiences in listing in the military and getting involved in the anti-war GI movement which helped end the war.
A short account of sabotage at a US army oil depot
A short, personal account of worker and army veteran sabotage of oil supplies to the military towards the end of the Vietnam war.
"We were the poor people": The Hormel strike of 1933 - Larry D. Engelmann
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Jul 21 2014 04:16
An article by Larry D. Engelmann about the 1933 Hormel strike, organized by the IWW-influenced Independent Union of All Workers (IUAW).
The 1916 Minnesota miners' strike against U.S. Steel - Robert M. Eleff
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Jul 21 2014 03:17
An article by Robert M. Eleff detailing a 1916 strike which involved the IWW, in the Iron Range of Minnesota.
Images from the South-St. Paul CIO-United Packinghouse Workers ̓strike of 1948
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Jul 20 2014 23:59
Images from a CIO strike in the meatpacking industry in St. Paul, Minnesota. The strike dragged on for months, picket lines were broken by the National Guard, and the strike was lost.
Keeping Minneapolis an open-shop town: the Citizens' Alliance in the 1930s - Lois Quam & Peter Rachleff
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Jul 20 2014 23:17
A paper written by Lois Quam and Peter Rachleff about the Citizens' Alliance, an association of employers and right wingers that opposed unions in Minneapolis during the 1930s.
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