The following two short pieces appeared last fall to commemorate the Zanon ceramics factory’s 10 years of operation under worker control. Zanon’s status as one of the iconic international symbols of the Argentinian workers’ self-management movement makes these posts of …
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Anarcho-Syndicalism and Principles of Urban Planning
By Scott Rittenhouse
Urban Planning is neither boulevards for conquerors, nor a landscape for the palaces of the rich, nor an opportunity for land speculators, nor a design opportunity for artists, nor a conspiracy for social engineers.
Urban planning is …
Read moreMovie Review: In Time – When Time Is Money…
By Scott Rittenhouse
“In Time” (Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried) is a clever dystopian movie about a hypothetical future where time has become the currency of society and people literally have to work or steal to live. They have life clocks …
Read moreGo: For a Winning Anarchist Strategy
Written in Fall 2010 for a local anarchist Go meetup in Seattle. Thanks to everyone for your feedback.
A year later, after the Arab Spring, after the American Autumn, who would have guessed the hint of potential in the air …
Read moreAn American Fall
By Steve Fake
The Arab Spring and European Summer have now inspired a wave of demonstrations in the U.S. as well. It may well prove to be the most significant wave of protests the nation has seen in many years.…
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