By Fnordie
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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Category: Labor
The state of the union is …unequal
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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The Elk River Spill — Capitalism at its “best”
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
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 …
Read morePresident Maduro and the “Anarcho-syndicalists” in Venezuela
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 …
Read moreA History of the Solidarity Federation
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 …
Read moreMalatesta and Syndicalism
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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