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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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 …
Read moreAnarchist Social Organization
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 …
Read moreReview of “Living Anarchism – José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement” by Chris Ealham [AK Press]
By Kevin Doyle
On the cover of Living Anarchism, the publishers, AK Press, point out that the anarchist movement in Spain in the lead up to the revolution in 1936-37 was the ‘the largest anti-authoritarian movement’ ever created in the …
Read moreUnemployment: An Anarcho-Syndicalist Critique and Program
by Jake Tompkins
The way the current capitalist world system is arranged there is a high level of unemployment across the world, especially because of the crises which has seen no recovery for anyone, but the richest of the rich. …
Read moreA Grassroots Union During the Working Class Insurgency of the Early ’70s
By Tom Wetzel
The creation of new grassroots unions was often a feature of the periods of working class insurgency in the USA, when there were high levels of strikes. Hundreds of thousands of workers joined unions with a more …
Read more2016 Philly Labor In Review
By Geoff R
2016 was a hot year for labor in the Philadelphia area. Five labor actions are especially noteworthy: the Verizon (CWA), Just Born (BCTGM), Philadelphia Orchestra, SEPTA (TWU) and APSCUF PA Higher Education workers strikes. All but one …
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