Scott Nappalos

Contracts are not a tool, they’re a trap

Scott Nappalos' reply to 'The contract as a tactic', which appeared in the December 2013 Industrial Worker.

Unity for what and with whom? A polemic against left unity

An analysis of the contemporary situation in the United States, the conditions of the left, and a…

Lessons from a social service worker’s strike

This piece was written in 2004-2005 in the wake of a strike at a behavioral health facility. Through the immediate eyes of those experiences it…

The tasks of today and tomorrow

A piece exploring transformation in struggle, its limits, and tasks in an environment when people aren't self-initiating struggle in our specific historical position. Examples looked at are IWW experiences in the Port Trucker wildcats of 2005, Occupy, Madison, and the unfolding of the crisis.

Responding to the growing importance of the state in the workers' movement

One of a series about the increase in efforts directed at state intervention to improve capitalism,…

What is a Resistance Society?

Resistance Societies are not well known in the English speaking world, though they were among the most important building blocks and experiences…

General principles and means of struggle of the American Continental Association of Workers

This is an excerpt from the declarations of the American Continental Association of…

Means of struggle - Emilio Lopez Arango

A translation of Lopez Arango, theorist of the FORA, on the question of industrial organization and industrial unionism. Here he defends the FORA…

Communication is a revolutionary act: thoughts on communication and media for liberation

What role do communication and media play in working class organizing? Scott…

Meaningful work: an appeal to the young

An article about meaning in choosing employment.

Health and happiness: confronting the waste of human life through the pursuit of joy

An article exploring the impact of institutionalization and the barren conditions of medicine for…

Not one nor two: political organization, syndicalism, and thought

A piece exploring an experience organizing with transportation workers and the connections between…