Port trucker strike Ningbo, China On 18 August 2014 over 10,000 port truckers in Ningbo, China, went on strike, not having had a raise in over 8 years. The strike lasted almost a…
The One Big Union Monthly (October 1937) The October 1937 issue of The One Big Union Monthly, with articles on the General Defense Committee, Spanish Civil War and AFl vs CIO turf wars…
Of Sweatshops & Starbucks A series of four articles by marxvx, critical of the IWW and 'dual unionism' in general. We do not neccesarily agree with this series, but reproduce for discussion's sake.
Book review: Chris Rhomberg, The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor (2012) A critical review of Chris Rhomberg's The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper…
The reaction in Germany - Mikhail Bakunin 'Die Reaktion in Deutschland. Ein Fragment von einem Franzosen’ first appeared in Arnold Ruge (ed.), Deutsche Jahrbücher fur Wissenschaft and…
The Zizek/Chomsky Debate: a Pragmatist View Noam Chomsky and Slavoj Zizek are useful for fulfilling different kinds of needs.
Ready for Revolution : The CNT Defense Committees in Barcelona, 1933-1938. [Book Review] A review of Agustin Guillamon's "Ready for Revolution" on the Spanish anarchist defence committees, assessing its relevance to today's revolutionaries.
Working for a hypocritical business union An account from a paid staffer of working for the AFL-CIO and dealing with petty management.
Class time: Work, pay, and unpaid labour in language schools What does it mean to work in the language teaching industry? A follow-on blog from our callout…
The Speculator Miners last letters The Granite Mountain/Speculator Mine disaster of June 8, 1917 was the most deadly mine disaster in the history of the United States. Nearly two…
Of Sweatshops & Starbucks: Will Dual Unionism Win the Labor Movement? This is the final installment in a four-part series analyzing the Industrial Workers of the World as the failure of dual unionism in the American revolutionary left. This installment focuses on the potentials of a new approach to unions based on reforming and democratizing established unions from within rather than founding competing unions.
