By Tom Wetzel
The creation of new grassroots unions was often a feature of the periods of working class insurgency in the USA, when there were high levels of strikes. Hundreds of thousands of workers joined unions with a more …
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2016 Philly Labor In Review
By Greg R
2016 was a hot year for labor in the Philadelphia area. Five labor actions are especially noteworthy: the Verizon (CWA), Just Born (BCTGM), Philadelphia Orchestra, SEPTA (TWU) and APSCUF PA Higher Education workers strikes. All but one …
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The Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative – Build a Revolutionary Union Movement
Anarchism is the goal, syndicalism is the method. Anarcho-syndicalism is more than just a different kind of unionism. It is a revolutionary movement for the elimination of the capitalist system of social relations. We seek to replace the system of …
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The Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative: Membership for Individuals and Existing Groups
In March of 2016, the Worker’s Solidarity Alliance (WSA) introduced the Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative (ASI), a project to develop a network of anarcho-syndicalist organizations across North America. The purpose of the initiative is to consolidate our strength as syndicalist oriented revolutionaries …
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The Anarcho-syndicalist Initiative – Building the Organizing Committee
The ASI is a project to build the organizing committee for an anarcho-syndicalist union movement. This movement will be part of a larger revolutionary union movement in North America. This movement will include unions based both in the workplace and …
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Announcing the Anarcho-syndicalist Initiative
The increasingly precarious conditions facing the North American working class, along with a rising tide of distrust and disgust with both our political and economic systems, demands that revolutionary organizations such as Workers Solidarity Alliance take immediate action to address …
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The (End) Work Zone: Tales of Spontaneous Rebellion in the Workplace – Part II
The normal course of a person’s working life typically produces a plethora of stories where the boss got one over on the employees and faced no retribution; countless unfair firings, anomalies with the paycheck, bullying, mistreatment and abuse. Hidden within, …
Read moreBoring from Within Won’t Work
By Tom Wetzel
In their reply to my attempts to defend revolutionary syndicalism, Joe Richard and Ty Carroll try to force the debate into an arbitrarily narrow set of choices.
The attack on “dual unionism” seems to be designed to …
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