ideas & action ( #1 - Jan. / Feb. 1982)

First issue of ideas & action, January / February 1982

- For Openers

- Trotskyism & Myth of Workers State

- Poland

- Debate: No Need for a "Workers Party"

- Discussion: The ACF Experience

- A few more thesis on Marxism

- Co-ops or workers' revolution?

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ideas & action

Why revolutionary syndicalism?

An article by Tom Wetzel on his conception of revolutionary syndicalism.

Union shop billboard

The origins of the union shop - Tom Wetzel

Article about the practice and limitations of union (closed) shops in the US workers' movement in the 1930s and 40s. In particular it examines…

Co-ops or workers' revolution?

An article by Tom Wetzel (under a pseudonym) which lays out the limitations of cooperatives as an alternative to capitalism.

Interview with a Jimmy John’s Worker

A 2011 interview with an organizer at Jimmy John's in Minneapolis.