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.
Of Sweatshops & Starbucks: Is the IWW a Good Union? This is the third 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 structural capabilities of the organization, and its geographical and industrial reach.
Of Sweatshops & Starbucks: Is the IWW an Industrial Union? This is the second 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 internal structure of the group - whether industrially structured, or generally chartered.
Of Sweatshops & Starbucks: Is the IWW a Union? This is the first 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 ultra-political orientation of the IWW.
Teaching old dogs new tricks: Counter-theses and theses - Amadeo Bordiga In this 1952 article from the “On the Thread of Time” series, on the eve of a split in the…
State capitalism: the wages system under new management - Adam Buick & John Crump Adam Buick and John Crump's book critiquing the post-revolutionary Russian and Chinese economies as…
