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Anti-Racism Debate Ideas

The Conversation Has To Happen!

June 10, 2020 Ideas&Action 0
By Danielle Kulp

In many American households people are wringing their hands and wondering, “what’s going on?” They see the fires, the damage, the looting, and wonder how the death of one man, George Floyd, could cause all of this. …
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Anti-capitalism Debate Economy History

A Free Market Fantasy

November 7, 2016 lynx 0

By Greg R & Bryer Sousa

As of late, those of us based in the US, who attend to internet-based discussion threads as well as chat forums concerning ‘radical’ social, political, and economic philosophies may be taken aback by the …

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Anti-Imperialism Debate History International Uncategorized

Anarchist Critique of PKK

July 30, 2016 lynx 3

The following post is authored by WSA member Jake Tompkins and originally posted on their blog Rage Against Capital.  While this critique does not represent an official position of the WSA, it did find traction and preexisting sentiment among …

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Debate

Are you sure that it’s Syndicalism we’re discussing here?

July 24, 2015 Ideas&Action 0

By Steve Ongerth – IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, June 15, 2015

I have been closely following the debate between various members of the International Socialist Organization (ISO) and Tom Wetzel (a syndicalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area) which …

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Debate Labor

Boring from Within Won’t Work

June 11, 2015 Ideas&Action 2

By Tom Wetzel

In their reply to my attempts to defend revolutionary syndicalism, Joe Richard and Ty Carroll try to force the debate into an arbitrarily narrow set of choices.

The attack on “dual unionism” seems to be designed to …

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Debate History Ideas Labor Syndicalism

Reply to ISO on Syndicalism

April 27, 2015 Ideas&Action 2

By Tom Wetzel

The International Socialist Organization’s webzine socialistworker.org recently published a critique of revolutionary syndicalism in the form of a review of Radical Unionism by Ralph Darlington. The review, by Tom Goulet, makes a number of mistaken claims.…

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Debate Ideas

Why Consensus Decision-making Won’t Work for Grassroots Unionism

November 3, 2014 Ideas&Action 3

By Tom Wetzel

Syndicalists have always supported a form of direct democracy based on majority rule. Like most American unions, the Industrial Workers of the World officially endorses Robert’s Rules of Order — although some of their smaller branches use …

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Debate International

Evaluating two decades of indigenous resistance in Chiapas – A Reply to Dan La Botz

June 22, 2014 Ideas&Action 1

By Steven Fake

Dan La Botz, a long-time labor activist who has considerable familiarity with Mexican affairs, marked the 20th anniversary of the Zapatista rebellion by penning a reflection on their legacy. His critique reflects his openness to electoral …

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