Tom Wetzel

A response from Tom Wetzel of the Workers Solidarity Alliance to Alan MacSimóin's article on syndicalism.

Veteran activist and writer Tom Wetzel enters the wide ranging debate on the left around the “rank…

An article written by Tom Wetzel about anarchist organization.

A new series from Recompositon called 'How I was radicalized'. This first part is by Tom Wetzel, and…

Text of talk given in New York City, October 2002.

An article by Tom Wetzel (under a pseudonym) which lays out the limitations of cooperatives as an alternative to capitalism.

Tom Wetzel on the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, the Italian factory council movement of 1919-1920, and the anarcho-syndicalist advocacy of…

An article by Tom Wetzel on his conception of revolutionary syndicalism.

A 1988 article by Tom Wetzel on the the development of the union bureaucracy and how that changed the nature of unions.

Tom Wetzel reviews the sections concentrating on the Russian Revolution in For Worker's Power, a collection of Maurice Brinton's writings.

Article about the practice and limitations of union (closed) shops in the US workers' movement in the 1930s and 40s. In particular it examines…

Tom Wetzel details the Italian Factory Occupations of 1920, which matured beyond conventional trade unionism and at its height involved about 600,000 workers. This article was originally presented as a talk at the Conference on Workers' Self-Organization in St. Louis in 1988.