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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“The Rank and File Strategy”: A Syndicalist View
By Tom Wetzel
Kim Moody’s writings on “the Rank and File Strategy” have gained a broad hearing within a variety of socialist groups, such as Democratic Socialists of America and smaller socialist groupings. His original pamphlet from 2000 talks about …
Read moreSecond Syndicalist Workshop
By Pete M Reclus
On October 6th, Piper, the Corresponding Secretary for WSA, gave an interactive workshop on Anarcho-Syndicalist theory, presented on her youtube channel, with live chat for discussion. She had been approached by the Anarcho-Syndicalist Collective for Education
…A New Labor Feminism
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 …
Read moreWSA 2020 Labor Day Statement —— The Time is Now
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 …
Read moreSlaughterhouse Fight: A Look at the Hormel Strike
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
…Syndicalist Theory Workshop
By Pete M Reclus
On December 4th 2019, seven comrades from around the country gathered for the Anarchist Syndicalist Theory Workshop, facilitated by Piper Tompkins. The Workshop was a project of the WSA Infrastructure Committee.
Piper prepared a sweeping overview …
Read moreThe Case for Building New Unions
By Tom Wetzel
The British writer R. H. Tawney once described capitalist management of the workplace as “autocracy checked by insurgency.” And, indeed, a kind of insurgency takes place when workers band together to form unions. Worker unions are a …
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