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Slaughterhouse Fight: A Look at the Hormel Strike

May 23, 2020 Ideas&Action 0

By Steve Boyce, Jake Edwards and Tom Wetzel – published in Ideas & Action #7, Summer, 1986

Note: As the COVID-19 crisis endangers us in our work places, we fight in solidarity with workers who face this virus with
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Gender & Sexuality History Short

Smash Patriarchy, Smash All Social Oppressions

August 3, 2018 Ideas&Action 0

By Mike K.

Patriarchy isn’t just an essential ingredient of “traditional family values”; it is explicitly required practice by most of the world’s religions. The Abrahamic religions codify the social subordination of women based on religious mythology dating back to …

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Anti-capitalism History Syndicalism WSA

May Day

May 1, 2018 lynx 0

May Day as we know it began as ancient pagan commemoration of the start of spring, the season in which we reap the bounty of the Earth through cultivation of the soil, and rejoice in fertility and the beauty of …

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Anti-capitalism Economy History Ideas Labor Syndicalism

Anarchist Social Organization

November 14, 2017 Ideas&Action 0

By Scott Nappalos

The rise of the right and the incapacity of the institutional left to offer an alternative is pressing the crucial question for our time: what is our strategy in pre-revolutionary times? The revolutionary left is fixated on …

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History Reviews Syndicalism

Review of “Living Anarchism – José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement” by Chris Ealham [AK Press]

October 18, 2017 lynx 0

By Kevin Doyle

On the cover of Living Anarchism, the publishers, AK Press, point out that the anarchist movement in Spain in the lead up to the revolution in 1936-37 was the ‘the largest anti-authoritarian movement’ ever created in the …

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Anti-capitalism Anti-Imperialism History International Solidarity

And Fidel Left…

January 2, 2017 Ideas&Action 0

By Gustavo Rodríguez

Translator’s Note: This essay was penned by Cuban comrade Gustavo Rodriguez in the early morning hours after the announcement of Fidel Castro’s death. Posted on social media on the following day in Mexico, Latin America, and Spain, …

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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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History Ideas

Leninist Vanguardism vs. Libertarian Left Militant Minority Organization

August 9, 2016 lynx 0

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By WSA

It is not uncommon for class struggle libertarians to hear Leninists equate vanguardism with a libertarian militant minority group, such as the Friends of Durruti in libertarian Spain, yet suggest that the libertarian role is simply lacking in …

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