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Chicago against ICE: “La migra, la policía, la misma porquería”

Starting on June 6, Los Angeles erupted in resistance to federal raids targeting immigrants. The…

CNT UGT hotel

The CNT as I saw it - Fenner Brockway

An article by British socialist Fenner Brockway about his experience with the anarcho-sydncialist union the CNT during his visit to Spain in 1937…

Curly fries, a staple food at GHQ (left); FWs visiting headquarters, and busy at work (center); the storefront at 2036 W. Montrose Ave. (right). P

A day in the life of an IWW General Headquarters staffer - Matt Muchowski

An article by Matt Muchowski, who was a staff member at the Industrial Workers of the World’s…

Wilding Transformations & Great Expectations (Personal Diary 2) - The John Clare Collective

Wilding Transformations & Great Expectations.... Personal Diary 2 of the John Clare…

Rewilding in Shipley

Wilding Transformations & Great Expectations (Personal Diary 1) - The John Clare Collective

An edited diary of events, theoretical speculation and conflicts with authority as…

A cartoon of a seated postal worker, surrounded by chaotic piles of mail. A suited man is at the door of the office. The seated worker is saying ""What do you mean when will things be back to normal? This is normal." Another worker sleeps.

Working and Not-Working at the Toronto Post Office (1974)

A personal account of working night shifts in the Canadian postal service. Published Toronto, 1974.

Part 1: Life in the factory - Paul Romano

The first part of "The American Worker" pamphlet - a first person account of working class life in America in the 1940s. "Paul Romano" was a pseudonym of Phil Singer.

Part 3: On the 1970 Situationist Reorientation Debate, the Never Work(ing) worker

Part 3: On the 1970 Situationist Reorientation Debate, the Never Work(ing) worker. Mayakovsky / Tatlin & the Red Brigades …….plus Jean’s strike. Text from Revolt Against Plenty.

Buster Keaton stands in front of a wonky house

Notes toward the Economics and Aesthetics of the UK's Great Building Disaster - Stuart Wise

An expansive reflection on changes in building/construction work in London from the…

Breaking from Research: A Personal Reflection on Syncretic Politics and the 1990’s

This post is different from my usual research-heavy writing. Sometimes, I need a break for self-reflection. The topics I often explore, like the populist right, red-brown politics, and new directions for the Western left, involve not only political analysis but also personal introspection. After all, I am part of this Western left myself. Once the more obvious crossover themes are explored—like responses to COVID or…

The Trot Tree, a political cartoon charting the development of Trot parties in the UK using strands of Leon Trotsky's hair as illustration

Paper Cut outs: Encounters with Trotskyism in the UK

A record of personal encounters with various British Trot sects over the years.

Nurses on strike, December 2022

Thoughts after the first round of NHS strikes

A report on strikes by NHS workers in the UK after the first two days of strike action by nurses in December 2022, by Angry Workers of the World.