Green Syndicalism in the Arctic
Inspirational action showing the power of Indigenous land defense and how solidarity can be manifest in significant ways in contexts where companies are working to sow divisions between resource workers and Indigenous communities. A powerful response to those who claim that the interests of resource workers will leave them somehow fundamentally opposed to Indigenous land struggles.
Pipelines, Pandemics and Capital’s Death Cult: A Green Syndicalist View
Covid outbreaks at extractives industry sites bring together shared interests and concerns of the diverse working class—blue collar and white collar workers in various industries, Indigenous people, including site workers. This provides a green syndicalist analysis of these issues and convergence points of resistance.
"We the Workers": China Behind the Scenes
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 11 2021 23:42
Review of the documentary “We the Workers” (2017), directed by Wenhai Huang.
Bows and Arrows: Indigenous Workers, IWW Local 526, and Syndicalism on the Vancouver Docks
Submitted by greensyndic on Feb 17 2021 04:39
The first union on the waterfront of so-called Vancouver was organized by Indigenous workers, mostly Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh. And it was organized on an explicitly syndicalist basis as Local 526 of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), which would become known as the Bows and Arrows. The Bows and Arrows took an active, politically militant approach with a commitment to Indigenous solidarity and organized on a multicultural/multiracial foundation of class solidarity.
No Future Without a Fight
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 29 2021 19:30
Back in 2012 the concept of a "graduate without a future" briefly entered the zeitgeist. Paul Mason was among its key proponents, finding a commonality between the Arab Spring, the anti-austerity movement in Greece and the student protests in the UK: a social strata of young educated people with no prospects who became the driving force of opposition to the "system".
The social factory / falling wall review #5 - Cleveland Modern Times Group
Falling Wall Review #5, UK, 1976. Rare pamphlet from Falling Wall Press, publisher of Marxist feminists such as Selma James and Silvia Federici. Issue includes The Social Factory statement from Cleveland Modern Times Group and writing from Silvia Federici among others.
Why the Working Class is Key
Submitted by Internationalis... on Aug 7 2020 12:23
Some may wonder why we keep harping on about the working class. Let’s briefly explain…
The Socialism of The Intellectuals: Jan Waclaw Machajski
The following article on Jan Waclaw Machajski appeared in issue 1 of Virus, the magazine of the Anarchist Communist Group
Supplementary Thoughts on The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and the Ongoing Great Money Trick
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 5 2020 09:37
After 100 years of us failing to achieve the "Co-operative Commonwealth" the bourgeoisie continue to dominate workers' lives with the "Great Money Trick". As Tressell foresaw, there remains a desperate need for the revolutionary reconstitution of society.
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.
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