Recomposition's blog

A response to Miami Autonomy & Solidarity's Defining Practice: the intermediate level of organization and struggle.

An IWW member evaluates 2 goals: industrial power and developing organizers, and explores where they overlap and where they don't.

Phinneas Gage goes over some of the changes in capitalism and the development within the last 10 years of the IWW as an organization committed to organizing.

A rough outline for an introduction to US labor history that was created as part of a presentation. The outline attempts to periodize important organizations and broad trends by decade. A particular focus is to also look at the changing relationship of the left within the labor movement.

A critique of 'service unionism' while advocating that some types of service are desirable in a radical union.

What is leadership? What makes someone a leader? Why should we care who is a leader? Who should be a leader? What should leaders do? What is good leadership?

An account of the change in attitude a workplace militant had when he was on the shopfloor VS while holding elected office and what real leadership means.

Brief exploration of how anarchists should operate in mass movements.

Accounts of wildcats and struggles at Canada Post in 2007-2008.

An article on the Alberta building trade's wildcat of 2007 and the union's attempts to get people back to work.

An assessment of how the situation of the U.S. working class has changed and how to adapt to these conditions.

An account of a dispute on overtime at the Canada Post and management's reaction to it.

One worker's account and analysis of a wave of wildcat stoppages and collective refusals of "forceback" compulsory overtime in the Canadian post office.