Beyond May Day: From Ritual to Resistance
The present period offers some new and encouraging openings—windows of opportunity for radical perspectives and movements against and beyond states and capital. To take advantage of this moment it is necessary to take a hard look at the ingrained rituals that have come to dominate movements.
[VIDEO] How to Grow a Movement: Tips for Activists & Organizers
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 part of the show. Skip to 4:03 for the main presentation.
Curing The English Disease
In 1976, the Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan declared that the "English disease" of indiscipline and labour militancy was undermining the profitability of UK capital. Curing the "English disease" became the raison d’etre of the ruling class.
Article on New Labour and plans for resistance from Black Flag #220 (2001)
The History of the Workers' Unemployment Insurance Bill
Submitted by Marx-lover on Aug 23 2018 00:25
In this article I tell the story of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, both to fill a gap in our historical knowledge and because it resonates in our own time of troubles and struggles.
“We must do away with racial prejudice and imaginary boundary lines”: British Columbia wobblies before the First World War – Mark Leier
Submitted by RobynK on Aug 11 2018 22:31
Labour historian Mark Leier’s chapter from Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW, in which he examines the transnationalism of the IWW, particularly across the US-Canadian border.
Connollism – Solidarity
A review in Solidarity for Workers' Power vol. 7, no. 11 of James Connolly: Selected Writings edited by P. Berresford Ellis and published by Pelican Books in 1973.
Socialist Labor Party pamphlets
Pamphlets of the Socialist Labor Party adapted from
https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/s/soc_labor.htm
Monopoly capitalism and the rise of syndicalism – Mark Leier
Submitted by RobynK on Jan 27 2018 03:42
A portion of the first chapter of labour historian Mark Leier’s 1990 book Where the Fraser River Flows: The Industrial Workers of the World in British Columbia, which may serve as an introduction to the IWW’s syndicalist ideas and practices, as well as what conditions brought about the revolutionary union in the first place.
(Note: Besides the final paragraph, ~3,200 of the last words were left out for the sake of being concise. What was left out went further in depth about how "the essence of the new system of production was [...] in increasing the division of labour and in reducing the initiative of the workers over the work process," showing how some tried to achieve this.)
Anarchist social organization
Submitted by s.nappalos on Dec 10 2017 17:21
A piece discussing debates over the role of political ideas within social movements, and the debate within anarchism over political organization applied to the current context of North American anarchism.
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