By Tom Wetzel and Steve Ongerth This is a reply to the recent polemic against renewable energy by Peter Gelderloos. We agree with a number of the points Gelderloos makes. But we disagree with his claims about renewable energy and…
People’s uprising against an autocratic state: The present, past and future of Bangladesh As I am writing this statement, I don’t know the whereabouts of most of my comrades who participated in the ongoing protest of students in Bangladesh. All I…
Interview on the It’s Going Down podcast Steve Ongerth on the Bombing of Judi Bari and Redwood Summer | It’s Going Down (itsgoingdown.org)
Capitalist society has a dynamic tendency towards constant technological change — change in products, methods of production, and in the ways workers are managed in the production process. I am going to suggest that capitalism has a very distinctive way…
A review of Means and Ends by Zoe Baker By Tom Wetzel Zoe Baker’s book Means and Ends is a comprehensive look at the revolutionary class-struggle anarchist movement as it existed and developed in the period from the International Workingmen’s…
Review of The Armed Strike: The Long London Exile of 1900—13. The Complete Works of Errico Malatesta. Vol. V. (2023) By Wayne Price The Italian Errico Malatesta (1853—1932) was a comrade and friend of Michael Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin. Calling…
By Tom Wetzel The downward slide of the major (Class 1) American freight railroads in recent years shows how capitalist ownership of the railway system is dangerous and inefficient — and fails to make use of the potential of the…
A Review of Michael Löwy & Oliver Besancenot, Revolutionary Affinities: Toward a Marxist-Anarchist Solidarity, published by PM Press This review was written originally for Anarkismo dot net. At first it might seem absurd to seek overlaps between these two schools…
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…
By Tom Wetzel Jason Hickel is apparently one of the most popular of the “degrowthers” in Europe. He is a good speaker and can give a smooth, fact-filled presentation. But his book Less is More is very frustrating. Like a…