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Murray Bookchin’s Legacy: A Syndicalist Critique

January 14, 2021 Ideas&Action 0

By Tom Wetzel

January 14th is the 100th anniversary of Murray Bookchin’s birth. Perhaps it is worth looking at his contribution to radical politics.

Bookchin had been involved in the communist youth movement in the 1930s. He eventually …

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Election History WSA

Trumps Capital Chaos: Short Statement by the Workers Solidarity Alliance (WSA)

January 13, 2021 Ideas&Action 0

Trumps Capital Chaos

Short Statement by the Workers Solidarity Alliance (WSA)

On Wednesday, January 6th 2021, an attack organized by a far right wing mob on the Capitol Building of the United States took place while congress met to certify …

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Feminism History Labor Syndicalism

A New Labor Feminism

September 12, 2020 Ideas&Action 0

By Melissa Jameson

I’ve always been interested in labor feminism in particular, and the wider socialist-feminist tradition. Lately, I’ve been wanting to reconnect with our Anarchist Syndicalist roots.

The spirit of the older labor feminist movement was mostly reformist. It …

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Anti-capitalism Anti-Racism History Labor Solidarity Syndicalism WSA

WSA 2020 Labor Day Statement —— The Time is Now

September 6, 2020 Ideas&Action 0

WSA 2020 Labor Day Statement ——  The Time is Now

Over a hundred years ago a frightened President Grover Cleveland pushed congress to recognize Labor Day as a federal holiday in 1894 (the September holiday was first observed in 1882 …

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History Labor Labor Pains Solidarity Syndicalism

Slaughterhouse Fight: A Look at the Hormel Strike

May 23, 2020 Ideas&Action 0

By Steve Boyce, Jake Edwards and Tom Wetzel – published in Ideas & Action #7, Summer, 1986

Note: As the COVID-19 crisis endangers us in our work places, we fight in solidarity with workers who face this virus with
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Gender & Sexuality History Short

Smash Patriarchy, Smash All Social Oppressions

August 3, 2018 Ideas&Action 0

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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Anti-capitalism History Syndicalism WSA

May Day

May 1, 2018 lynx 0

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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Anti-capitalism Economy History Ideas Labor Syndicalism

Anarchist Social Organization

November 14, 2017 Ideas&Action 0

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 …

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