By Kevsota
Part of a series commemorating 30 years of WSA
I joined the WSA in 2009 after participating in an anarchist reading group set up by two other WSAers. I was excited by what seemed like a density of …
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Why Consensus Decision-making Won’t Work for Grassroots Unionism
By Tom Wetzel
Syndicalists have always supported a form of direct democracy based on majority rule. Like most American unions, the Industrial Workers of the World officially endorses Robert’s Rules of Order — although some of their smaller branches use …
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Languages of the Unheard by Stephen D’Arcy
In reflecting upon the huge drop in the level of strikes in Canada (similar to USA), Steve D’Arcy makes the point here that the radical left can only become “real” in the context of mass popular self-activity. This leads to …
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What is to be imagined-and what is to be done?
Paul Street looks at limitations of what passes for a “left” in the USA: (1) focus solely on criticism of what is without proposing a replacement in which people would be liberated from the present system of oppression & exploitation, …
Read moreNew Union Aims to take on NUMSA
I see that the “new” union has chosen the name of the old union which existed during the apartheid era.
As a South Africa comrade pointed out, some NUMSA members have complained: “Some of our members have come to us …
Read moreEthnic Cleansing In Detroit, Michigan
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Water turned off, heat turned off, and now homes taken away. The project to change the color of Detroit is reaching its crescendo. Some 6,000 Detroit homes have just been sold to an “un-named bidder” for $3 million. …
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By Steven Fake
WSA 30 Year Anniversary
Part of a series commemorating 30 years of WSA
I am a relative newcomer to the WSA. I did not join until 2006. I might have joined some years earlier had I only …
Read moreRojava: An Anarcho-Syndicalist Perspective
By K.B.
“The principal problem of national liberation struggle for the anti-statist anarcho-syndicalist form of organisation is that it is inherently statist. Advocating a more local form of state, the national liberation movement bows to the idea that the state …
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