Mining Disaster in West Virginia This week, 25 miners lost their lives in a mine explosion at the Performance Coal Co. in Raleigh County, West Virginia. The explosion was the…
Tea parties and the white working class A document forming the beginning of a discussion about the nature of the US "Tea Party" movement and its makeup.
Democrats stand firmly in defence of the rich: what's in the health care bill? Health care reform in the United States has finally arrived. After years of debate, President Barack…
Nature of the period: background and perspectives (NEFAC) A short statement adopted by NEFAC, for the purposes of discussion, on the current economic…
IWW organising in the 1970s An interesting account of attempts of organising Industrial Workers of the World union shops in the US in the 1970s, which contains useful lessons on the tactic of organising small workplaces.
Small is not beautiful: Working at the San Francisco Bay Guardian An account of work and industrial conflict at the alternative newspaper the San Francisco Bay…
Kaiser don't care! SEIU neither! The Kaiser hospitals strike, 1986 An account of the strike against the introduction of a two tier pay system at Kaiser hospitals in…
Music and the IWW: the creation of a working class counterculture - RudolfTB This article discusses how the early IWW used music both as an organising tool and as a means of…
Obama, Netanyahu and their embarrassingly effective PR The stories of the US and Israel's feud bares more resemblance to gossip mag hysteria than news, and…
Class struggle in Claremont Pomona College is the site of active class struggle. The food service workers of Pomona College are now in open conflict with the corporate…
U.S. CARD Act demonstrates the brankruptcy of Progressivism Perhaps one of the greatest failures of progressives in the United States today is their insistence…