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JHU Student Sit-In

July 30, 2020 Ideas&Action 0

By Ryan Paul

Between April 3rd and May 8th of 2019, a sit-in protest took place at Garland Hall, John’s Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, MD. It came to be known by university press and other media as the “Garland …

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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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Labor Labor Shorts Solidarity

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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Anti-capitalism Anti-Imperialism Anti-war Solidarity

WSA Statement on Iran

January 24, 2020 W0rker 0

Workers Solidarity Alliance condemns Trump’s political assassination of Qassim Soleimani as well as the Trump administration’s continued mix of war mongering and volatile foreign policy. We stand in solidarity with the working and poor of Iran and Iraq who, as …

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Anti-capitalism Economy Labor Solidarity

Working More Now But Enjoying it Less?

March 14, 2018 lynx 0

A timeless article written for the Milwaukee libertarian socialist newspaper “Impulse” (# 4, June 1979)
By Tom Wetzel


In a recent issue of Harvard Business Review there is a report on discontent among American workers, which had been privately prepared …

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Anti-capitalism Healthcare International Labor Solidarity Syndicalism

From down under in New Zealand/Aoteara…

January 19, 2018 lynx 0

Friends and comrades in the health care sector have initiated the Health Sector Workers Network (Aotearoa/New Zealand).

According to one of their websites the “…Health Sector Workers Network collective aims include agitating for better conditions for people — both …

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