This guest column of Labor Pains is written by the Target Workers Unite! an independent initiative run by rank and file Target team members.
Introductory comments by a TWU member
Here’s our account on how one specific NGO undermined our …
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Electoral Road to Socialism?
By Tom Wetzel
Could a shift from capitalism to socialism be brought about through electoral politics? Ever since the origins of the modern socialist left in the late 1800s, many socialists have viewed the politics of parties and elections as …
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By Sam Mainwaring
I saw my grandfather Pop, last week at our family poker night. He can be a curmudgeon at times, and after about two hours of our usual chit-chat, after sports and before religion, he brought up his …
Read moreA “Green New Deal”?: The Eco-syndicalist Alternative
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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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 …
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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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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 …