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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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Syndicalist Theory Workshop

March 11, 2020 W0rker 0

By Pete M Reclus

On December 4th 2019, seven comrades from around the country gathered for the Anarchist Syndicalist Theory Workshop, facilitated by Piper Tompkins. The Workshop was a project of the WSA Infrastructure Committee.

Piper prepared a sweeping overview …

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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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Electoral Road to Socialism?

July 2, 2019 Ideas&Action 0

By Tom Wetzel

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 …

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What is Socialism? What is Anarchism?

June 28, 2019 Ideas&Action 0

By 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

May 1, 2018 lynx 0

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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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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Anti-capitalism Housing & Community International Labor Solidarity Syndicalism

Across the Pond: Brighton Solidarity Federation in Action

January 15, 2018 lynx 0

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 …

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