Insurrection and Production
Package Handler’s Report and Analysis
In this essay, IWW organizer Coeur de Bord analyses the first year of organizing at a United Parcel Service hub in Minneapolis outside of the preexisting trade union structure. They show how even a small core of organizers can engage large numbers of workers and mobilize them around concrete demands.
Free parking - Phinneas Gage
In this piece Phinneas Gage recalls the challenges of organizing under punitive back to work legislation and the effect it had on shop floor organising. As tensions grow over a dispute about the safety of various parking arrangements around renovated facilities the shop again begins to mobilise. Then tragedy strikes and the workers are reminded that sometimes the cost of a partial victory can be as great as any defeat.
Careerists and Corporate Interest: Why despite endless failure the drug war will continue indefinitely
Nicer ways to do it? Bolivian miners fighting back
Easy Money: The Reserve Bank of Australia and the tremors in capital accumulation
The RCP's current solution to the gay question
[The Netherlands] The Area Ban against anarchists in a broader context of repression in The Hague
2016 historical U.S. anarchism archiving project
Dutch Mayor issues area bans for anarchists
What's new to libcom.org (July 2016)
Recent interview with Clinton aide contains disturbing hints of the wars to come
Tenant Power: Portland Solidarity Network Takes Demands to a Landlord
Strike in the port of Koper
Turfs, and also clumps
Paperboy of the 1990s - Juan Conatz
Thoughts on the movement, or why we still don't even Corbyn - Joseph Kay and Ed Goddard
It’s a lonely world these days for an anti-parliamentary socialist with all politics seeming to have taken a back seat to the current Labour Party shenanigans. While the deluge of establishment groupthink currently arrayed on Corbyn is as disgusting as it is cynical, we're still not pinning any hopes on him in the (now quite likely) event he comes out on top in the next leadership election.
A review of Left of the left: my memories of Sam Dolgoff by Anatole Dolgoff
So this is how it ends: Obama spends his last months in office shilling for the TPP
On dissolving the people: Living the Dream on #ausvotes2016
This is the latest episode of Living the Dream - a podcast I participate in as part of the collective blog The Word From Struggle Street. Here we talk about the Federal Election result