"Powerless": treatment programs within the prison industrial complex - Nick O. A critique of the role of prison treatment programs by an anarchist and ex-prisoner.
Putting labor’s house in order: the Transport Workers Union and labor anti-Communism in Miami during the 1940s An essay by Alex Lichtenstein about how 'red-baiting' and anti-Communism effected a CIO union in Miami during the 1940s.
Jon Stewart's NFL - Joshua Sperber The criticism of US professional football represents self-indulgent liberal sanctimoniousness at its finest.
Seattle Solidarity Network wins first multi-worker strike Seattle Solidarity Network are happy to announce that the two workers from La Lot restaurant they…
Withered aristocracy #1 - by way of introduction An introduction to what will hopefully be an intermittent series of musing on life and labor within the New York City building trades and…
Climate populism and the People’s Climate March Large demonstrations are planned to push for action on climate change. Here we discuss the potentials and pitfalls of climate populism.
Of Sweatshops & Starbucks A series of four articles by marxvx, critical of the IWW and 'dual unionism' in general. We do not neccesarily agree with this series, but reproduce for discussion's sake.
The Zizek/Chomsky Debate: a Pragmatist View Noam Chomsky and Slavoj Zizek are useful for fulfilling different kinds of needs.
Working for a hypocritical business union An account from a paid staffer of working for the AFL-CIO and dealing with petty management.
The Speculator Miners last letters The Granite Mountain/Speculator Mine disaster of June 8, 1917 was the most deadly mine disaster in the history of the United States. Nearly two…
Of Sweatshops & Starbucks: Is the IWW a Good Union? This is the third in a four-part series analyzing the Industrial Workers of the World as the failure of dual unionism in the American revolutionary left. This installment focuses on the structural capabilities of the organization, and its geographical and industrial reach.
Battle of Blair mountain, 1921, photo gallery Photographs of the battle of Blair mountain, the largest armed rebellion in the US since the civil war. For five days in late August and early…