By Tom Wetzel
Capitalist dynamics are at the very heart of the current crisis that humanity faces over global warming.
When we talk of “global warming,” we’re talking about the rapid — and on-going — rise in the average world-wide …
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Workers’ power not bureaucrats’ power: lessons from Argentina
By Jonathan Payn, South Africa
Around the world the ruling class (capitalists, politicians and state managers) is trying to restore its profits by making the working class pay for the economic crisis. One way capitalists do this is by retrenching …
Read moreSmash Patriarchy, Smash All Social Oppressions
By Mike K.
Patriarchy isn’t just an essential ingredient of “traditional family values”; it is explicitly required practice by most of the world’s religions. The Abrahamic religions codify the social subordination of women based on religious mythology dating back to …
Read moreMay Day
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 …
Read moreWorking 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 …
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