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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Review of “Living Anarchism – José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement” by Chris Ealham [AK Press]
By Kevin Doyle
On the cover of Living Anarchism, the publishers, AK Press, point out that the anarchist movement in Spain in the lead up to the revolution in 1936-37 was the ‘the largest anti-authoritarian movement’ ever created in the …
Read moreErik Olin Wright on the transition to socialism
By Tom Wetzel
In his new book Envisioning Real Utopias, Erik Olin Wright suggests that proposals for a what he calls “democratic egalitarian socialism” — and strategies for transition to such a society — should be evaluated “scientifically” — …
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Freedom Betrayed
Review of:
Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War of Independence, Alan Gilbert, 2012, University of Chicago Press
By Mike Kolhoff
The participation of African Americans in the War of Independence is widely known but …
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Review of Fighting for Ourselves: Anarcho-Syndicalism and the Class Struggle
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 …
Read moreTruth and Revolution– book review
By Nate Hawthorne
AK Press recently published a book about a small revolutionary group that existed from 1969 to 1986, called the Sojourner Truth Organization (STO). The book is called Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization…
Read moreFor a New Fanaticism: Analysis Will Never Be Enough
By Lou Rinaldi
Imagine this: you wake up early in the morning before the sun even comes up for work. You can’t afford a car so you take the bus forty minutes to work. Because you only earn barely above …
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