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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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Want to Build an Anarchosyndicalist Organization?

February 6, 2015 Ideas&Action 1

By Ann Kij

The following is based on observations of different organizations, local groups and unions. While sometimes different ways work in different circumstances, I feel there are some practices which get organizations off track and some that are useful …

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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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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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The Revolutionary Party Is An Oxymoron

September 13, 2013 Ideas&Action 6

By Steven Fake

Kshama Sawant

The campaign of socialist Kshama Sawant for the Seattle City Council continues to attract excitement on the left for her strong showing. A Counterpunch contributor recently called it a “highly significant” development. I wish her well of …

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Culture Debate Ideas

3 Ways Organizing With Friends Can Lead to Failure

July 27, 2013 Gray 1

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By Brandon Feld

Sitting among a group of college aged friends that all dress and talk in the same way is a recurring scene in activism and organizing groups around the world. In large part, organizing takes the form of …

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Malatesta and Syndicalism

May 8, 2013 Ideas&Action 0

By Emilio López Arango

A note from the translator: “This is a never before translated piece by Lopez Arango, one of the main theorists of the pre-1930 FORA, that goes against Malatesta’s ideas on the unions. The prose is filled …

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Review of Fighting for Ourselves: Anarcho-Syndicalism and the Class Struggle

April 2, 2013 Abbey Volcano 0

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By Klas Batalo

Fighting for Ourselves: Anarcho-Syndicalism and the Class Struggle tries to move in the direction of providing a framework and questions that can help the contemporary class struggle anarchist movement move past its’ current impasses, and fight back …

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