direct unionism

Advice that is useful for any organizer or activist, to help your organization or movement grow in both size and active participation. This advice draws from two sources: 1. Social psychology 2. Real life examples of successful mass movements and organizing campaigns This video is an episode of the Aktion Show, a weekly livestream about praxis and direct action, but includes a brief intro and outro that was not…

Rusty's Rules is a simplified version of Robert's Rules. It enables good meeting process while being simple enough to easily memorize. Meetings are an essential part of organizing, of self-management, and of collective action. With good process, meetings can be highly effective, but without good process, meetings can easily become a useless waste of time. So Rusty's Rules is a very important tool, not just for…

A reprint – within Solidarity for Workers’ Power, vol. 2, no. 1 (1962) – of a passage from the first issue of Solidarity: A Monthly Journal of Militant Trade Unionism produced by the…

Marianne Garneau and MK Lees reexamine the value of the "Going Public" step in solidarity union organizing drives.

The National Council of Labour Colleges (NCLC) was an organisation set up in the United Kingdom to…

Announcement about some new pamphlets from Thoughtcrime Ink

An article by Juan Conatz replying to some of the Direct Unionism discussion paper responses.

An article by Kevin S about the problems of using Unfair Labor Practice charges in IWW organizing.

In this post I argue that we should build organizations that can't be used as instruments for enforcing capitalist social relationships.

An account of an informal work group at UPS taking on a grievance with management.

John O'Reilly reviews some of the perspectives laid out in the 'direct unionism' discussion paper.

This response is primarily written with the intention of facilitating an introduction to Direct Unionism for service workers who are very new to labour. We hope to participate in the DU discussion, and share with those interested how we have been affected by these conversations and also how we are practicing and implementing these ideas.