The Life and Times of Jimmy Hoffa
Submitted by Marx-lover on Dec 28 2019 05:31
There appears not to be a thorough, fair-minded history of Jimmy Hoffa anywhere on the internet. So here's one. Hoffa was far from perfect, but he did a lot of good.
Burgerville Workers Union Launches Strike As Negotiations Break Down
Submitted by R Totale on Aug 10 2019 14:10
Members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organized into the Burgerville Workers Union officially launched a strike today as negotiations with Burgerville corporate broke down, following a year of stalling and refusal on the part of bosses to address worker demands. This report first appeared on It's Going Down.
A Union at Amazon?: Organize the Class, not the Shop
An Amazon worker in the United States reflects on the strategic point of the company in the global economy and the new social composition it has created. Looking at the limits of union campaigns in a high-turnover sector with a lack of solidarity, he argues for the creation of regional Worker and Tenant Leagues based on direct action and mutual aid. This article was first published by Notes from Below.
Socialist Leaders Won’t Save Unions
An article from the Organizing Work blog that offers a structural account of the role played by unions and the pressures that cause union leaders to act in the ways they do, in response to a recent Jacobin article calling for socialist union leadership.
The anarchists and workers’ societies - Errico Malatesta
Malatesta on anarchist roles in unions
In Defense Of A/S: Unionism
Submitted by Ivysyn on Apr 19 2019 15:39
A defense of labor unions in Anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary strategy
Trade Unionism and the Asian Youth Movements
Submitted by Ed on Feb 11 2019 23:19
A look at the engagement of Asian Youth Movement activists with workers' struggles and the British trade union movement.
E09: The Industrial Workers of the World in the US, 1918-1950s
Podcast episode about the later history of the revolutionary union the Industrial Workers of the World 1918-1950s. We went to Chicago to talk to our friend Warren to learn more about this little-known period in the union’s history.
German Artisans and Artisan movements in the 1840s
An article about the conditions of the working class in the German States and Vienna in the 1840s and the early beginnings of class consciousness it provoked and its expression in the 1848 revolutions.
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