Small time unionism Kevin S on the contradictions between being a union with more experience with smaller employers and growing to be able to exert power on bigger…
How to intervene in the class struggle? An article from the ICC/Internationalism USA about their participation in the 2011 Verizon strike. It investigates how to present a message…
No compensation for victims of eugenics programme Politicians in North Carolina have knocked back a proposal that would have seen all living survivors of the state’s eugenics and forced…
Major rent strike against millionaire slumlord catches fire in Brooklyn As foreclosures continue to put historic pressure on the nation’s rental market, slumlords now have…
Why does the union bureaucracy exist? A 1988 article by Tom Wetzel on the the development of the union bureaucracy and how that changed the nature of unions.
On the Picket Line: The ConEd Lockout in New York An account of New York City electrical workers who've been on the picket since being locked-out earlier this week.
The lessons of 2011: Three theses on organisation Rodrigo Nunes looks at the social movements of 2011 and their implications for organising, rejecting the opposite conceptions of the vanguardist…
Health care reform: the insurance lobby's triumph The American people are acutely aware that the healthcare reform they received from the Obama administration has been the result of an immense…
Dennis Rodman, de-domesticated man! An article about how Dennis Rodman subverted the respectability and capitalist domestication of professional basketball in the US.
“We’ve been robbed long enough. It’s time to strike” : Remember the 1916 strike on Minnesota’s iron range Jeff Pilacinski takes a look back at a 1916 IWW struggle in northern Minnesota.
Will the Department of Justice Get Their Way in Seattle? Seattle City attorneys officially threw down the gauntlet with the Department of Justice last week,…
Direct action begins at home Our friend Amédée Garneau sends along this story about small scale tenant organizing in New York.