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The Poisoning of Flint: Capitalism and Environmental Sabotage

February 18, 2016 Ideas&Action 0
By Mike Kolhoff
Cruel disregard of human life have been part of the capitalist package from the very beginning. To the ruling class our lives are important only to the degree that we produce profit they can exploit. In its …
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Anti-capitalism Labor Labor Pains Solidarity

The (End) Work Zone: Tales of Spontaneous Rebellion in the Workplace – Part II

July 27, 2015 lynx 0

End Work Zone

The normal course of a person’s working life typically produces a plethora of stories where the boss got one over on the employees and faced no retribution; countless unfair firings, anomalies with the paycheck, bullying, mistreatment and abuse. Hidden within, …

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Anti-capitalism Economy History Labor

Modern Slavery and the Triumph of Capitalism, Part 2: Modern Slavery in the USA

January 8, 2015 Ideas&Action 0

By Mike Kolhoff

“Forced labor is most prevalent in five sectors of the US economy: prostitution and sex services (46%); domestic service (27%); agriculture (10%); sweatshop/factory work (5%); and restaurant and hotel work (4%).” David Batstone, Not For Sale: The …

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Anti-capitalism Economy Ideas Labor Syndicalism

What is Class Oppression? Who is the Working Class?

November 15, 2014 Ideas&Action 4

By Tom Wetzel

Occupy Wall Street highlighted class inequality in the USA through its talk about the concentration of income and wealth in the hands of “the 1 percent.” This does put a bullseye on the ruling class in our …

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Anti-capitalism Economy Labor

Modern Slavery and the Triumph of Capitalism, (Part One)

November 14, 2014 Ideas&Action 2

By Mike Kolhoff

“The ideological push for the “science” of free trade has unleashed enormously destructive forces for social and cultural change that have wreaked havoc on the populations of developing countries. Rapid urbanization and restructuring of agricultural activities, upon …

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Anti-capitalism Anti-Imperialism International

Rojava: An Anarcho-Syndicalist Perspective

October 18, 2014 Gray 20

By K.B.

“The principal problem of national liberation struggle for the anti-statist anarcho-syndicalist form of organisation is that it is inherently statist. Advocating a more local form of state, the national liberation movement bows to the idea that the state …

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Anti-capitalism Ecology Labor

The Elk River Spill — Capitalism at its “best”

January 17, 2014 Ideas&Action 0

By G.

On the morning of Thursday, January 9, 2014, 7500 gallons of a coal cleaning chemical known as Crude MCHM (principally composed of 4-methylcyclohexanemethanol) leaked from a storage tank and then from a containment wall at a facility on …

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Anti-capitalism Austerity Economy International Labor Syndicalism

President Maduro and the “Anarcho-syndicalists” in Venezuela

October 13, 2013 Ideas&Action 2

Editorial note: The subject of the short article below by the Venezuelan anarchist group El Libertario is of particular salience, as Maduro’s attack happens to parallel recent developments here in the U.S. where top Democratic politicians and the Chelsea Manning …

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