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Lunch Lady Land: reflections on a unionization drive from a radical food service worker

February 18, 2014 Ideas&Action 5

By Fnordie

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It was sometime in late February, 2011 when we let the cat out of the bag.  I was working the swing shift in the college’s main cafeteria – “The Den” as it was known.  It was starting to …

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Austerity Labor Labor Pains Syndicalism

The state of the union is …unequal

January 28, 2014 Ideas&Action 1
By Mike Harris

OK, so  the “little person” has been fighting against wage theft, low wages, and harsh working and living conditions for years. Sometimes alone and lonely, sometimes collectively and in a self-managed way. For the past year or
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Anti-capitalism Ecology Labor

The Elk River Spill — Capitalism at its “best”

January 17, 2014 Ideas&Action 0

By G.

On the morning of Thursday, January 9, 2014, 7500 gallons of a coal cleaning chemical known as Crude MCHM (principally composed of 4-methylcyclohexanemethanol) leaked from a storage tank and then from a containment wall at a facility on …

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Starbucks union strike in Chile

November 8, 2013 Ideas&Action 1

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Update (Nov 13, 2013): this post has now been updated to include the formal announcement of the end of the strike.

Editorial Note:

In September of this year US based member of the IWW were able to meet and connect …

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President Maduro and the “Anarcho-syndicalists” in Venezuela

October 13, 2013 Ideas&Action 2

Editorial note: The subject of the short article below by the Venezuelan anarchist group El Libertario is of particular salience, as Maduro’s attack happens to parallel recent developments here in the U.S. where top Democratic politicians and the Chelsea Manning …

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History International Labor

A History of the Solidarity Federation

October 13, 2013 Ideas&Action 1

By Martin, South London SF

The Solidarity Federation was formed in 1994, at a conference in Blackpool, Lancashire, called by the Direct Action Movement, industrial networks and Norwich Solidarity Centre.

To understand why and how this came about, we need …

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An interview with the Iberia section of the CNT union

October 13, 2013 Ideas&Action 1
Editor’s note: Developments since this interview was conducted earlier this year have borne out the predictions expressed by the CNT-Iberia representative interviewed below. Last week, Reuters reported:
“Cutbacks at Iberia could force Madrid’s Barajas airport to allow other airlines
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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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