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If a strike turns you into a Tory, you probably were one anyway
v0_full.jpg In the Guardian, Jonathan Jones laments that workers standing up for themselves is getting in the way of him looking at art. Here are five reasons why he’s talking out of his arse and you...
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Due to a lawsuit filed by the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WATW), an affiliate of the Communications Workers Alliance (CWA), the Department of Homeland Security has invalidated the 17...
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Lines of Work: Stories of Jobs and Resistance (review)
Weird_Canada-Various-Lines_of_Work-Front.jpg By Scott Nikolas Nappalos, ed. (Alberta, Canada: Black Cat Press, 2013). Review by Jared Davidson, first published in LHP Bulletin 64. read more
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On America, part 4: I hate my job
Office Space.jpg When it comes to problems on the job, we're generally given few options: quit, vote, join a union. Here's why that's not good enough. The final part in a series challenging some of the...
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5 reasons to steer clear of the Labour Party bandwagon
_85506475_85506474.jpg After a campaign that seemed to drag on endlessly in the wake of the general election, Jeremy Corbyn has won the Labour Party leadership by a landslide. The most immediate...
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Social Struggle in the Coming Period: An Outlook and Action Statement to...
O-A-Front-Page.png The following points represent a brief statement of priorities, an outline of some of the perspectives our organization has decided on to help guide our thinking and actions in the...
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Syndicalists in South Africa, 1908-17 - Baruch Hirson
mary_fitzgerald 1913 market.jpg Baruch Hirson, South African Trotskyist, provides some insight into the South African syndicalists of the early twentieth century recovering the history of South African...
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'Sifuna zonke!’: revolutionary syndicalism, the Industrial Workers of Africa...
unit7-riots.jpg Pamphlet from the Bikisha Media Collective on the development of revolutionary syndicalist organisations in South Africa, including the Industrial Workers of Africa. read more
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The Rise and Fall of the ICU: a Case of Self-Destruction? - Phil Bonner
the-workers-herald-icu.jpg This essay, which first appeared in the South African Labour Bulletin, sought to draw the lessons of the spectacular rise and fall of the Industrial and Commercial Workers...
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The South African Wobblies: The Origins of Industrial Unions in South Africa...
iwws-in-sa-1918.jpg John Philip’s pioneering, hard-to-get study of syndicalism in South Africa, stressing the influence of the IWW. read more
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Kazakhstan: who ordered the killings and tortures?
d0bfd0bed0bcd0b8d0bdd0bad0b8pominki5-660x440.jpg Four years after the massacre of striking oil workers by security forces at Zhanaozen in western Kazakhstan, the campaign to unmask those who gave the...
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Lessons of the collectives - Victor Alba
Victor Alba.jpgPublished by Victor Alba, a former member of the POUM, in 2001, just before his death, this text addresses problems that the author believes will be faced by any resurgence of...
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Trade unions: pillars of capitalism - Internationalist Perspective
AFL-CIO.jpg Interesting set of articles debating the nature of unions in capitalist society and how revolutionary workers should relate to them, from a pro-working class, left communist perspective....
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The dirty tricks of the Shrewsbury trials expose the dark heart of the...
Shrewsbury.jpg Article by economist Paul Mason about the 1972 UK builders' strike that led to the Shrewsbury conspiracy trial. Reproduced here not as an endorsement of Mason's politics, but an...
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Pushing Dust: Work Report from Greenford Street Cleansing Gangs
roadsweep1.jpg We look at the company structure, the work-mates, the re-structuring and how the trade union engages with it. Workers have studied agriculture in Zimbabwe, ran coffee bars in Sao Paolo,...
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Turkey: When the workers make their voices heard
bursada-renault.jpg In the current situation of global crisis and rampant local wars, Turkey has an important place. The tensions in this country are running high, both within the capitalist class(1)...
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International Council Correspondence Volume 2, Number 2
icc v2n2.jpg International Council Correspondence, Vol. 2, no. 2, January 1936
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International Council Correspondence Volume 4, Number 6
icc v4n6.jpgLiving Marxism/International Council Correspondence, Vol. 4, no. 6, April 1939 read more
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Combative Unionism: Clarifications to our position paper - Prairie Struggle
Clarifications.jpg Shortly after the release of our position paper on “combative unionism” which sparked much criticism and legitimate questioning, members of Prairie Struggle set about reviewing the...
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Combative Unionism: Waging Class War within Labour - Prairie Struggle
COMBATIVE UNIONISM front cover.jpg After putting much of our efforts in the cross Canada Speaking Tour on Combative Unionism, a debate on Combative unionism took place inside and outside of Prairie...
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