Category: Ideas

The Revolutionary Party Is An Oxymoron

By Steven Fake The campaign of socialist Kshama Sawant for the Seattle City Council continues to attract excitement on the left for her strong showing. A Counterpunch contributor recently called it a “highly significant” development. I wish her well of course. A socialist threat in the city of Microsoft, Amazon, and Starbucks is indeed heart warming. Hopefully the […]

Posted: September 13th, 2013 under Anti-capitalism, Debate, History, Ideas.

3 Ways Organizing With Friends Can Lead to Failure

By Brandon Feld Sitting among a group of college aged friends that all dress and talk in the same way is a recurring scene in activism and organizing groups around the world. In large part, organizing takes the form of a few people trying to rally their friends around a cause. These practices are counterproductive […]

Posted: July 27th, 2013 under Culture, Debate, Ideas.

Malatesta and Syndicalism

By Emilio López Arango A note from the translator: “This is a never before translated piece by Lopez Arango, one of the main theorists of the pre-1930 FORA, that goes against Malatesta’s ideas on the unions. The prose is filled with flourish and it not straight forward at all. I tried to take liberties to […]

Posted: May 8th, 2013 under Debate, Ideas, Labor.

Review of Fighting for Ourselves: Anarcho-Syndicalism and the Class Struggle

By Klas Batalo Fighting for Ourselves: Anarcho-Syndicalism and the Class Struggle tries to move in the direction of providing a framework and questions that can help the contemporary class struggle anarchist movement move past its’ current impasses, and fight back against the austerity crisis, as well as take the initiative against state capitalism. It sets out […]

Posted: April 2nd, 2013 under Anti-capitalism, Debate, Economy, Ideas, Labor, Reviews.

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