JackYuran, 2023 Last year witnessed a resurgence in the power of the strike for the US labor movement. In 2023, there were a total 393 strikes in the U.S. involving more than 500,000 workers—an increase of 141% from 2022, according to Johnnie Kallas, a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. …
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A key tenet of green syndicalism is that development and expansion of capitalism proceeds through intrinsically interlocked forms of destruction (of land, of human and non-human communities). Destruction of natural life and destruction of human life go hand in hand. A motor for this is the exploitation of nature (reduced to resources) and the exploitation …
Excerpted from African Anarchism: The History of a Movement by Sam Mbah and I.E. Igariwey. The full text of this book can be found here. Une traduction de cet extrait en français est disponible ici. Perhaps the single most important question in the breakdown of the modern nation state is the “national question,” also called …
Photo by Visitor7, Eugene, OR, 16 September 2013, A hallmark of anarcho-syndicalism has always been a working-class-wide orientation to organizing, strategy, and tactics. This distinguishes it from trade unionism, which focuses organizing on specific jobs, tasks, trades, or, at most, workplaces. A working-class-wide orientation means just that—not only organizing all employed workers (workers who have …
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“Without feminism there is no anarchy.” Photo by Manuel C., Barcelona, 8 March 2022 Unpaid labor, encompassing domestic tasks and caregiving responsibilities, remains largely invisible within the capitalist economic framework. Despite its critical role in sustaining societal structures, this labor is neither compensated nor recognized in measures of economic productivity. According to a 2015 report …
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Source: https://laffranchi.info/guerres/Translation: CEDAS-ASCED Gaza being crushed by bombing, starvation, and sniper fire has plunged all of us into a brutal pessimism that reveals to us that fascism is indeed alive and well. How can Israel’s war in Gaza and the West Bank be described as anything other than “ethnic cleansing”, genocide? Years ago, we could …
It’s called the “Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” as if it is a clash between rival ethnic groups over religion, territory, or some combination thereof. Even if the media has wanted to paint it this way, that is not what the so-called conflict really is. In 1948 the state of Israel was formed after hundreds of thousands of …
For at least 100 years, most organized working-class anarchists have adopted pretty much the same approach to the anti-war movement. And nowadays, movements are living up to that again. A century long anti-war anarchist narrative In a 1919 speech in Erfurt, Germany, Rudolf Rocker suggested that the military industry needed to be stopped with a …
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Photo from AFP Israel has been in a democratic backslide since at least 2018, with a rise in ethno-nationalist populism in internal politics, and building ties with Trump, Bolsonaro, and Orban in international politics. On November 1st 2022, Israel elected the most right-wing government in its history. Here’s just a glimpse of who those elected …
When I think of workers, the labor movement, and labor organizing, I usually think first about the trades. My father was a sheet-metal worker. He was in a union through much of my childhood, when strikes, layoffs, and a certain amount of financial stability were regular parts of my life. The trades and shop floor …
