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Beware False Friends!
false.JPEG Many working class people do not believe that their class has the potential to change the world. Indeed many of us do not even recognise the idea of class, let alone see themselves as part...
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1960- Japan's Coal Miners Strike
Miike-strikes.jpg A history of Japan podcast about the massive coalminers strike in Miike on the island of Kyushu in 1960, and its impact on the Japanese economy, Japanese unions and the Japanese left....
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Report on the 2018 IWW Organising Summit
iww.jpg My notes on the UK IWW's organising summit in Sheffield. read more
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Is an over-supply of labour depressing wages?
YlCgiXq - Copy.png Are trade union bureaucrats correct in saying Marx believed an over-supply of labour depresses wages? We take a look at what Marx called "the absolute general law of capitalist...
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German Artisans and Artisan movements in the 1840s
carpentry workshop.jpg An article about the conditions of the working class in the German States and Vienna in the 1840s and the early beginnings of class consciousness it provoked and its expression...
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E09: The Industrial Workers of the World in the US, 1918-1950s
1940-Clevelands-Industrial-League.jpg Podcast episode about the later history of the revolutionary union the Industrial Workers of the World 1918-1950s. We went to Chicago to talk to our friend Warren...
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Trade Unionism and the Asian Youth Movements
miners.jpg A look at the engagement of Asian Youth Movement activists with workers' struggles and the British trade union movement. read more
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In Defense Of A/S: Unionism
spunklibrary---119.gifA defense of labor unions in Anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary strategy Unionism can not simply be written off. Workers need to organize themselves in the class struggle somehow...
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Malatesta on anarchist roles in unions read more
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Socialist Leaders Won’t Save Unions
bob crow tusc.jpgAn article from the Organizing Work blog that offers a structural account of the role played by unions and the pressures that cause union leaders to act in the ways they do, in...
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Why don’t strikes achieve more?
1912_Lawrence_Textile_Strike.jpgAn article from the Organizing Work blog examining the limitations of high-profile disputes such as the Stop-n-Shop strike, published as part of their "Reconsidering the...
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A Union at Amazon?: Organize the Class, not the Shop
logistics.jpg An Amazon worker in the United States reflects on the strategic point of the company in the global economy and the new social composition it has created. Looking at the limits of union...
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Burgerville Workers Union Launches Strike As Negotiations Break Down
Burgerville header.jpg Members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organized into the Burgerville Workers Union officially launched a strike today as negotiations with Burgerville corporate...
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The Life and Times of Jimmy Hoffa
hoffa.jpg There appears not to be a thorough, fair-minded history of Jimmy Hoffa anywhere on the internet. So here's one. Hoffa was far from perfect, but he did a lot of good. With the possible...
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How can workers defy anti-strike legislation?
Canada-Post-workers-celebrate-after-refusing-work-at-Rosedale-depot-2019.jpgAn interview from Organizing Work looking at how Canadian postal workers have organized in defiance of anti-strike laws. The...
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The struggle of Asian workers in Britain - Race Today
struggle.jpgPamphlet published in 1983 by the Race Today Collective containing three articles and sets of interviews on the struggles of Asian workers in the UK.
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Race Today Women on the collective struggles by Caribbean women in Britain. Published in April, 1975.
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“The Rank and File Strategy”: A Syndicalist View - Tom Wetzel
rnf header.jpg Veteran activist and writer Tom Wetzel enters the wide ranging debate on the left around the “rank and file strategy” orientation to the labor movement. This piece is based on material...
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