May Day as we know it began as ancient pagan commemoration of the start of spring, the season in which we reap the bounty of the Earth through cultivation of the soil, and rejoice in fertility and the beauty of …
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Working More Now But Enjoying it Less?
A timeless article written for the Milwaukee libertarian socialist newspaper “Impulse” (# 4, June 1979)
By Tom Wetzel
In a recent issue of Harvard Business Review there is a report on discontent among American workers, which had been privately prepared …
West Virginia Teachers Strike
February 25, 2018, West Virgina Correspondent
In March, 1990, West Virginia school teachers staged an 11-day strike over pay at the end the state legislature’s regular session, returning to work only after the governor promised to call a special …
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From down under in New Zealand/Aoteara…
Friends and comrades in the health care sector have initiated the Health Sector Workers Network (Aotearoa/New Zealand).
According to one of their websites the “…Health Sector Workers Network collective aims include agitating for better conditions for people — both …
Read moreAcross the Pond: Brighton Solidarity Federation in Action
Brighton SolFed has started 2018 with 6 ongoing housing struggles and, to meet increasing demand, our housing union is now holding a weekly drop-in at a city centre café. The idea is that we can collectivise housing issues by gathering …
Read moreAnarchist Social Organization
By Scott Nappalos
The rise of the right and the incapacity of the institutional left to offer an alternative is pressing the crucial question for our time: what is our strategy in pre-revolutionary times? The revolutionary left is fixated on …
Read moreWSA Statement on Catalan Independence
Over the past few weeks Catalans have waged a political struggle for an independence referendum. Catalonia is Spain’s most economically important region and has it’s own culture which could be separated from that of Spain generally. Catalans desire independence because …
Read moreReview of “Living Anarchism – José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement” by Chris Ealham [AK Press]
By Kevin Doyle
On the cover of Living Anarchism, the publishers, AK Press, point out that the anarchist movement in Spain in the lead up to the revolution in 1936-37 was the ‘the largest anti-authoritarian movement’ ever created in the …
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