Workers' struggles in East Asia (August 2011) Summary and links to news stories of workers' struggles around East Asia during August 2011 and related resources. The most important stories…
Aftermath: the new normal Cities, Riots, Maps, The Black Act & the 'new normal'. Pierce Penniless on the UK riots
“Occupy! Manchester is based on this desire to rediscover 'direct action' as a popular political form”: An interview with an organiser of Occupy Manchester An interview with Jay Hooper, an organiser of Occupy! Manchester, the call for a mass assembly to be held to protest the October 2011 Tory Party conference. Published online in September 2011.
What the RFID is that? Brian Ashton zooms in on the microscopic technologies surveilling and shaping working lives, part of a series of articles on logistics, workplace…
La « Garde rouge » raconte The centre of gravity of the workers’ committee movement in Italy in the late '60s to late '70s was the Milan area, and it was the committee of…
Workers on the government and union slide: from one defeat to another so far - Kolektivně proti kapitálu & Mouvement Communiste An analysis of the union protests against cuts in public spending in Czech in Autumn/Winter 2010.
Consequences of the Misuse of Electricity-Jose Manuel Rojo A 2001 essay interpreting such phenomena as the rise of reality TV shows, public video surveillance…
Socialist Reconstruction of Society An address delivered in Union Temple, Minneapolis, Minn., July 10, 1905 Originally titled The Preamble of the IWW
Refusing the syndicalist v. primitivist debate Ex-Black Panther and ex-political prisoner Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin on being a Black Autonomist, and uninterested in the syndicalist v. primitivist…
Running riot: Britain's urban violence - Socialist Party of Great Britain I read this article recently in "Socialism or your money back" which is a collection of historical…
Unions call for house committee investigation of possible misuse of US aid in Colombia Communications Workers of America (CWA) International President Larry Cohen and United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard issued the following statement today regarding their request to a member of the House Select Intelligence Committee that there be an investigation of press reports that the government of Colombia may have misused U.S. government aid by spending it to investigate and…