The Green New Deal and the “rank-and-file strategy” - Gregory Butler
Gregory Butler argues that the DSA and Jacobin’s “rank-and-file strategy” in the construction industry consists mostly in pushing policy from above, leaving out worker concerns and worker organizing. This article was first published by Organizing Work.
Fighting Back - International Week of Action Against Unpaid Wages
Short pamphlet by the anarcho-syndicalist union the ZSP. ZSP is the Polish section of the International Workers Association. The pamphlet is about their experiences in countering wage theft, both successful and unsuccessful.
Social Cleansing & the End of Council Housing - Black Flag
Article from Black Flag #218 1999.
Privatisation and Gentrification, Reaction and Resistance, in Hackney's 'Regeneration State' – Black Flag
Article on gentrification in the London Borough of Hackney, from Black Flag #222 2002.
Five Theses on the Class Struggle - by Anton Pannekoek
Anton Pannekoek's classic manifesto against state socialism (democratic or otherwise) and for council communism, an industrial society governed by a democracy of workers' councils
Workers Launch Wave of Wildcat Strikes As Trump Pushes for ‘Return to Work’ Amidst Exploding Coronavirus
Submitted by R Totale on Mar 26 2020 21:56
A report on the spread of wildcat strikes in response to the coronavirus in the US. This article was first published by It's Going Down.
Dockers on strike in Bayonne
Submitted by Johanna Schellhagen on Jan 14 2020 06:59
In France, the movement against the new pension reform has been taking place since December 5th, 2019, and is getting stronger and stronger.
Interview with docker and CGT general secretary Dylan:
https://en.labournet.tv/dockers-strike-bayonne
Teesside Construction Workers Challenge the State
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jun 7 2019 09:29
On Thursday 30 May construction workers at the Tees Renewable Energy Plant, owned by MGT Power, walked out in a wildcat action over safety conditions at the site. When workers act on their own class terrain they begin to challenge the capitalist structure as a whole.
Elephant and Castle redevelopment shelved as residents storm Southwark Council
Submitted by Jim on Jan 17 2018 14:51
Southwark Council has been forced to bow to community pressure, temporarily shelving the redevelopment of Elephant and Castle shopping centre on a night which saw anti-gentrification protesters storm the council's offices.
The state takes advantage of the lack of autonomous workers struggles to revise the terms of capitalist exploitation in France - leaflet by Mouvement Communiste/Kolektivně proti Kapitălu
A leaflet about the recent "Executive Orders" signed by French President Emmanuel Macron which aim to "modernise" the labour laws.
