Anarchism is the goal, syndicalism is the method. Anarcho-syndicalism is more than just a different kind of unionism. It is a revolutionary movement for the elimination of the capitalist system of social relations. We seek to replace the system of …
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The Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative: Membership for Individuals and Existing Groups
In March of 2016, the Worker’s Solidarity Alliance (WSA) introduced the Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative (ASI), a project to develop a network of anarcho-syndicalist organizations across North America. The purpose of the initiative is to consolidate our strength as syndicalist oriented revolutionaries …
Read moreThe Anarcho-syndicalist Initiative – Building the Organizing Committee
The ASI is a project to build the organizing committee for an anarcho-syndicalist union movement. This movement will be part of a larger revolutionary union movement in North America. This movement will include unions based both in the workplace and …
Read moreAnnouncing the Anarcho-syndicalist Initiative
The increasingly precarious conditions facing the North American working class, along with a rising tide of distrust and disgust with both our political and economic systems, demands that revolutionary organizations such as Workers Solidarity Alliance take immediate action to address …
Read moreReply to ISO on Syndicalism
By Tom Wetzel
The International Socialist Organization’s webzine socialistworker.org recently published a critique of revolutionary syndicalism in the form of a review of Radical Unionism by Ralph Darlington. The review, by Tom Goulet, makes a number of mistaken claims.…
Read moreWhat is Class Oppression? Who is the Working Class?
By Tom Wetzel
Occupy Wall Street highlighted class inequality in the USA through its talk about the concentration of income and wealth in the hands of “the 1 percent.” This does put a bullseye on the ruling class in our …
Read moreThe state of the union is …unequal
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 …
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