Field Notes: Covid Crisis and the Workers
With each day that passes, the reality of the COVID 19 crisis catches up with us. There is much work ahead for the Left and for us as anarchist syndicalists. How can we …
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Washington DC Rent Strikes
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 …
Read moreWayfair Workers Walk Out!
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 …
Read moreSyndicalist Theory Workshop
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 …
Read moreThe Case for Building New Unions
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 …
Read moreWSA Statement on Iran
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 …
Read moreStatement on the United For Respect organization
This guest column of Labor Pains is written by the Target Workers Unite! an independent initiative run by rank and file Target team members.
Introductory comments by a TWU member
Here’s our account on how one specific NGO undermined our …
Read moreElectoral Road to Socialism?
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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