By Piper Tompkins
As if climate change, covid-19, racial tensions, and economic woes weren’t enough, war has broken out in Europe with a major power, Russia, invading a nation that used to be part of its empire, Ukraine. Despite the …
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Against Leninism
By Tom Wetzel
A major influence on radical thinking since the Russian revolution is the form of radical politics called Leninism. The name derives from the central role of the Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin in shaping the direction …
Read moreAdrianna’s Talk on Pelloutier
By Sachio Ko-yin
In October of 2017, our comrade and my mother, Adrianna Ko, passed away in NJ.
She raised me with anarchist ideals, and after 5th grade took me out of formal classes to start her own anarchist schoolhouse. …
Read moreInternational Women’s Day Statement
Today is international women’s day, a day for appreciating the status of women in the modern world. It was on this day that women textile workers kicked off the February Revolution against the Romanov Empire with a demonstration, creating a …
Read moreMurray Bookchin’s Legacy: A Syndicalist Critique
By Tom Wetzel
January 14th is the 100th anniversary of Murray Bookchin’s birth. Perhaps it is worth looking at his contribution to radical politics.
Bookchin had been involved in the communist youth movement in the 1930s. He eventually …
Read moreTrumps Capital Chaos: Short Statement by the Workers Solidarity Alliance (WSA)
Trumps Capital Chaos
Short Statement by the Workers Solidarity Alliance (WSA)
On Wednesday, January 6th 2021, an attack organized by a far right wing mob on the Capitol Building of the United States took place while congress met to certify …
Read moreA New Labor Feminism
By Melissa Jameson
I’ve always been interested in labor feminism in particular, and the wider socialist-feminist tradition. Lately, I’ve been wanting to reconnect with our Anarchist Syndicalist roots.
The spirit of the older labor feminist movement was mostly reformist. It …
Read moreWSA 2020 Labor Day Statement —— The Time is Now
WSA 2020 Labor Day Statement —— The Time is Now
Over a hundred years ago a frightened President Grover Cleveland pushed congress to recognize Labor Day as a federal holiday in 1894 (the September holiday was first observed in 1882 …
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