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Class Struggle Unionism: A Review

August 15, 2022 Ideas&Action 0

By Tom Wetzel

“The labor movement today is in miserable shape, probably worse than in any period of labor history,” writes Joe Burns. To get out of this situation and rebuild unionism as an effective fighting force, Burns proposes a …

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“The Rank and File Strategy”: A Syndicalist View

December 31, 2020 Ideas&Action 0

By Tom Wetzel

Kim Moody’s writings on “the Rank and File Strategy” have gained a broad hearing within a variety of socialist groups, such as Democratic Socialists of America and smaller socialist groupings. His original pamphlet from 2000 talks about …

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Feminism History Labor Syndicalism

A New Labor Feminism

September 12, 2020 Ideas&Action 0

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 …

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Anti-capitalism Anti-Racism History Labor Solidarity Syndicalism WSA

WSA 2020 Labor Day Statement —— The Time is Now

September 6, 2020 Ideas&Action 0

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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History Labor Labor Pains Solidarity Syndicalism

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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Housing & Community Labor Labor Shorts Solidarity

Washington DC Rent Strikes

March 20, 2020 W0rker 0

By Ryan Paul

Tenants of Holmead Apartments in the Washington DC neighborhood of Columbia Heights have begun withholding their rent from their landlord: Urban Investment Partners Property Management (UIP). The residents have been complaining of poor housing conditions that have …

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Wayfair Workers Walk Out!

March 16, 2020 W0rker 0

By Sachio Ko-yin

On June 26, hundreds of workers and those in support protested outside the Wayfair Boston outlet. The workers quickly organized a walk-out in response to an order the online furniture store received from a government contractor for …

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The Case for Building New Unions

March 5, 2020 W0rker 0

By Tom Wetzel

The British writer R. H. Tawney once described capitalist management of the workplace as “autocracy checked by insurgency.” And, indeed, a kind of insurgency takes place when workers band together to form unions. Worker unions are a …

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