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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Could a shift from capitalism to socialism be brought about through electoral politics? Ever since the origins of the modern socialist left in the late 1800s, many socialists have viewed the politics of parties and elections as …
Read moreBy Sam Mainwaring
I saw my grandfather Pop, last week at our family poker night. He can be a curmudgeon at times, and after about two hours of our usual chit-chat, after sports and before religion, he brought up his …
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May Day as we know it began as ancient pagan commemoration of the start of spring, the season in which we reap the bounty of the Earth through cultivation of the soil, and rejoice in fertility and the beauty of …
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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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Brighton SolFed has started 2018 with 6 ongoing housing struggles and, to meet increasing demand, our housing union is now holding a weekly drop-in at a city centre café. The idea is that we can collectivise housing issues by gathering …
Read moreBy Scott Nappalos
The rise of the right and the incapacity of the institutional left to offer an alternative is pressing the crucial question for our time: what is our strategy in pre-revolutionary times? The revolutionary left is fixated on …
Read moreBy 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 …
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