unions

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.

Why don’t strikes achieve more?

An article from the Organizing Work blog examining the limitations of high-profile disputes such as the Stop-n-Shop strike, published as part of their "Reconsidering the Strike" series.

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
Asian Youth Movement poster in solidarity with the 1984-85 miners' strike.

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

A late 19th century carpenter's workshop with its original tools.

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.

Is an over-supply of labour depressing wages?

Submitted by QQ on Oct 30 2018 19:10

Are trade union bureaucrats correct in saying Marx believed an over-supply of labour depresses wages? We take a look at what Marx called "the absolute general law of capitalist accumulation" to discover if this is true.

Report on the 2018 IWW Organising Summit

Submitted by Reddebrek on Oct 21 2018 19:24

My notes on the UK IWW's organising summit in Sheffield.