Worker Solidarity is an independent worker journal. Our goal is to provide a platform for reports, analysis and debate about working class struggle, both workplace-based struggles and other forms grassroots social movement resistance, and to promote syndicalism as a strategy for social transformation.
Syndicalism is based on a strategy of building grassroots worker unions (and other kinds of grassroots organizations such as tenant unions) that are directly controlled by the members, and using these organizations as a means of workers controlling — and pursuing — direct struggle against the dominating classes—building forms of working class counter-power through disruptive forms of collective struggle such as strikes, occupations, rent strikes, militant mass marches, and so on.
This journal is particularly interested in developing the link between the labor movement and climate justice and the fight for an ecologically sustainable world. Our approach is Green Syndicalism (also called eco-syndicalism). This has a dual basis; first, the recognition that workers — and direct worker and community alliances — can be a force against fossil fuel capitalism and environmental devastation going forward; and, secondly, the belief that the syndicalist vision of self-managed socialism provides a plausible basis for a solution for the environmental crisis.
Although this project is initiated by the East Bay Group of Workers Solidarity Alliance, we do not intend this publication as a narrow expression of WSA but an open publication that can draw in contributions of others, and a variety of voices, and help contribute to the development of a green syndicalist network. We understand that the working class population — and labor or radical activists within that population — derive from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. Those who are sympathetic to Green Syndicalism have a variety of viewpoints and concerns. Thus the movement needs to develop a style of interacting which allows for the inevitable differences and where debate and discussion can occur in a civil and non-sectarian way.