Reclaiming the urban space In cities across the world different forms of popular resistance are appearing at the grassroots level that aim to reclaim and recreate the urban…
The South African Wobblies: The Origins of Industrial Unions in South Africa - John Philips John Philip’s pioneering, hard-to-get study of syndicalism in South Africa,…
Sardinia: Demonstration against NATO’s Trident Juncture training On 3 November , Teulada military base in Sardinia was the focus of a demonstration to disrupt the…
What is really happening in Bologna? Bologna has always been a laboratory, both for social movements and for their counterparts. Bologna “the Red”, the industrialized city with one…
Syndicalism on the Shopfloor: the Denver Shop-Stewards Strike, Transvaal, November-December 1919 - EA Mantzaris This paper by Evan Mantzaris provides a critical chronicle of a strike by radical…
The Rise and Fall of the ICU: a Case of Self-Destruction? - Phil Bonner This essay, which first appeared in the South African Labour Bulletin, sought to draw the lessons of…
Syrian refugees get Obama’s sympathy, what about the refugees of the war on drugs and NAFTA? Obama claims to care about Syrian refugees, but the refugees from the US led "war…
Portland Tenants United: the goals of a metro tenant's union A new tenants union in Oregon is announcing its long-term goals, which will build on a united renter…
A state of siege for proletarian masses After devastation at seven simultaneous and organized Islamist warlike/terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday 10th November 2015 and killing 129…
Some cursory thoughts on the imminent bombing of Syria / ISIS An immediate and unthinking call to bomb a country following a terrorist outrage committed by…