Samsung workers in Mexico on hunger strike - Solidarity needed Four female workers, unfairly fired and victims of workplace abuse, have caged themselves and sewn…
Industrial Workers of the World migrant cleaners Guildhall strike: an example to follow A participant's report on Friday's strike and picket by cleaners at Guildhall (City of London), in…
Solidarity and News of the World hacks Now it’s sunk in a bit, I thought I’d take a crack at analysing the anarchist debate around the News of The World’s demise in a bit more depth.
Southampton: Britain's Wisconsin? Public sector workers in Southampton are reaching the end of a week of strike action, organised in response to swingeing cuts and job losses…
Rank and file networks: a way to fight concessions - Stan Weir A piece suggesting rank and file networks to fight workplace closings and to circumvent the official unions. Appeared in Labor Notes 48 (January 27, 1983)
Unions with Leaders Who Stay on the Job (a.k.a. Class War Lessons) - Stan Weir Stain Weir writes about direct action and on-the-job union leadership as a merchant marine in the 1940s.
The informal work group - Stan Weir Stan Weir on some of his life experiences at work and what he saw as the "the only organizational form opposed to formal bureaucracies which…
Bonkers Boris' messy logic There's an interesting post over on the TUC's Touchstone blog about Boris Johnson's call for strike laws to be made even more restrictive. Boris, who was elected as mayor of London on a turnout of less than 50%, wants strikes to be illegal unless the turnout is greater than 50%.
Militant as hell on the waterfront: The political thought of Stan Weir New Beginnings looks at the life of workplace militant and writer, Stan Weir.
On workplace organisation - Red and Black Notes A look at the exchange between Stan Weir and Sam Friedman on workplace organisation. The following article, which has been slightly edited for…
“The bottom line isn't the whole thing”: Detroit, anti-racism and labour history New Beginnings interviews a Detroit militant with decades of organizing experience in the area.
Les émeutes en Grèce, a review a short review in French of Les émeutes en Grèce, a book mainly by Théo Cosme (Théorie Communiste) about the Greece riots of 2008.
