Tacoma and Seattke rank-and-file members of the the International
Longshoremen and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) are showing us the way.
Faced with arrogant bosses and a boss-controlled legal system, they
have declared that the only way to effectively fight back is …
Author: Ideas&Action
Venezuela from Below
Review: Venezuela: Revolution as Spectacle by Rafael Uzcategui (See Sharp Press, 2010)
By Tom Wetzel
In her essay Latin America & Twenty-First Century Socialism (published as an issue of Monthly Review last year), Marta Harnecker presents a …
Read moreExamining a Ghost: A Young Anarchist Reflects on Bookchin
By Cam Mancini
I have recently been reading Murray Bookchin. AK Press put out a wonderful collection, titled Post-Scarcity Anarchism, of ten of his works, including essays and discussion pieces on them, and a collection of letters and observations. …
Read moreMommy, What Was Hunger Like?
By Don Smith
I was at dinner with friends the other day and the subject of poverty and hunger in Africa came up. One friend of mine is working with a non-profit charity that collects money for children in Sierra …
Read moreKropotkin Selection? Updating Mutual Aid
By Steve Fake
Edward O. Wilson and Peter Kropotkin are not often discussed in the same breath. Yet Kropotkin, who in his professional life was a geographer, devoted a substantial work (Mutual Aid, 1902) to elaborating his ideas …
Reflections on Two Years of Industrial Workers of the World Organizing in the Education Industry
By Bruce ‘the Bruiser’ Darden
Organizing Stories is a semi-regular series collecting experiences and examining organizing efforts in the hope of providing some lessons for the future
I moved to a medium size city in the Great Lakes Region in …
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