By Tom Wetzel
As the burning of fossil fuels continues to pump up the size of the carbon dioxide layer in the atmosphere, the global warming crisis becomes ever more acute. In its “Code Red for Humanity” warning in 2021, …
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A “Green New Deal”?: The Eco-syndicalist Alternative
By Tom Wetzel
Capitalist dynamics are at the very heart of the current crisis that humanity faces over global warming.
When we talk of “global warming,” we’re talking about the rapid — and on-going — rise in the average world-wide …
Read moreSolidarity with the #NoDAPL Resistance
The Workers Solidarity Alliance would like to express our solidarity with the indigenous-led struggle against the ecologically destructive Dakota Access Pipeline during the Global Weeks of Solidarity (Sept 3rd – 17th). Further, we condemn the repression of the resistance …
Read moreThe Poisoning of Flint: Capitalism and Environmental Sabotage
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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Property Before People
By Mike Kolhoff
“Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.” —John Locke
The granting of corporations the status and protections usually reserved for individuals has hammered home a simple message: property is more important than …
Read moreThe Elk River Spill — Capitalism at its “best”
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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International Women’s Day 2013
Workers Solidarity Alliance
2013 International Women’s Day Statement
On March 8, 1908, thousands of women left their jobs in the sweatshops of New York City’s Lower East Side and took to the streets to demand their rights as women and …
Read moreAnarcho-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 …
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