Recomposition's blog

An appeal for solidarity from a letter carrier in Edmonton to other postal workers at Canada Post in response to creeping management disciplinary letters.

What role do communication and media play in working class organizing? Scott Nappalos explores a political approach.

The second in Recomposition's series at looking at some of the arguments against the IWW. James P Cannon argues that the Russian Revolution made the IWW irrelevant and out of touch.

The first in a series of reposts of common arguments against the IWW (both historical and contemporary).

Workers often say that the fear of firings is one of the main reasons it’s so hard to get people to fight back. The power that bosses hold over workers through firings can put them on the curb for standing up. This fear is often unspoken, but present everyday in our workplaces. This piece we share explores how truly arbitrary that power is and its effects. When bosses can hurt us and sometimes ruin lives without any reason at all, it also reminds us why we need to organize.

Announcement of a forthcoming book titled Lines of Work: Stories of Jobs and Resistance, from Recomposition and Black Cat Press.

Announcement about some new pamphlets from Thoughtcrime Ink

An account of a dispute on whether a place of work would provide trash cans.

A short article about a safety concern at work and how it was dealt with by the author and his coworkers.

An account by Emmett J. Nolan about 'job conditioning' around the issue of breaks.

An article about fighting back against write-ups at work.

An account of reasons for organising, and the death of a young child.

In this article, Madaline tells the story of how she fell into organizing and the IWW – pushed both by terrible bosses and by amazing solidarity among her coworkers.

Dave Stannton's account of his experiences as a “pink collar” militant working at an immigrant-serving non-profit organized by a large public-sector union in Northern Alberta.

John O'Reilly on the Occupy movement in the United States and the direction it took.

An organizer's overview of an ended Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) campaign in the Twin Cities.

This essay is the second in a series articulating a methodological framework for developing Wobbly organizers and identifying key features of workplace committee building at the micro level.

An account written by Abbey Volcano about non-profit employment, lack of medical insurance and divisions in the workplace.

Nate Hawthorne reviews Solidarity Federation's upcoming pamphlet, Fighting for ourselves: anarcho-syndicalism and the class struggle.

A fellow IWW member sent us this article about the importance of relationship building in our organizing, and the importance of not limiting our relationships to being narrowly about work.