In reflecting upon the huge drop in the level of strikes in Canada (similar to USA), Steve D’Arcy makes the point here that the radical left can only become “real” in the context of mass popular self-activity. This leads to …
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What is to be imagined-and what is to be done?
Paul Street looks at limitations of what passes for a “left” in the USA: (1) focus solely on criticism of what is without proposing a replacement in which people would be liberated from the present system of oppression & exploitation, …
Read moreNew Union Aims to take on NUMSA
I see that the “new” union has chosen the name of the old union which existed during the apartheid era.
As a South Africa comrade pointed out, some NUMSA members have complained: “Some of our members have come to us …
Read moreEthnic Cleansing In Detroit, Michigan
News Short
Water turned off, heat turned off, and now homes taken away. The project to change the color of Detroit is reaching its crescendo. Some 6,000 Detroit homes have just been sold to an “un-named bidder” for $3 million. …
Read moreAnarcho-syndicalism in America
By Steven Fake
WSA 30 Year Anniversary
Part of a series commemorating 30 years of WSA
I am a relative newcomer to the WSA. I did not join until 2006. I might have joined some years earlier had I only …
Read moreLessons from the Air Traffic Controllers’ Strike of 1981
A.E. Martinez
August 3rd, 1981: Approximately 13,000 air traffic controllers across the United States declare a strike through their union, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers’ Organization (PATCO).
The Chinese and American Synthesis
By Mike Kolhoff
It’s been clear that the Chinese and American economies have become closely intertwined since the end of the Cold War. Once arch-enemies, China is now a close trading partner with the United States, able even to influence …
Read moreIncapacity, White Supremacy, and the Destruction of Detroit
By Mike Kolhoff
The destruction of Detroit continues according to the plans of Michigan’s Teapublican-controlled state government. Their racist intentions are obvious. They want to drive out the existing African American population, and replace it with one more to their …
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