Iran War Statement
By the East Bay Syndicalists Update, 23 July: Two weeks ago, the Trump regime tore up the ceasefire with Iran that had been previously agreed in April by returning to open, cruel warfare. The grisly attacks carried out by the…
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Green Industrial Policy and Socialist Reform
This essay was previously published by ZNetwork. China’s vast development and export of renewable energy gear and electric vehicles is helping to drive the green transition globally — the transition away from reliance on the burning of fossil fuels. As…
Is the “No Kings” Movement Effective Against Authoritarianism?
Feel free to listen in to this recent conversation between the East Bay Syndicalists’ very own Steve Ongerth and our comrades from the Anarres Project for Alternative Futures, as they discuss the important topic: “Is the “No Kings” Movement Effective…
Future on Fire: A Review
David Camfield, Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change (Oakland: PM Press, 2023) David Camfield’s Future on Fire is a clarion call for the application of an “emergency brake” to the uncontrolled global warming produced by the…
(IWW Eco Union Caucus) COP30 Press Release: Stop the Farce!
By the IWW Eco Union Caucus – IWW Eco Union Caucus, November 10, 2025 As delegations of numerous State representatives gather in Belém, Brazil, for the Thirtieth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),…
Red Flag Warning: A Review
Red Flag Warning: Mutual Aid and Survival in California’s Fire Country, eds. Dani Burlison and Margaret Elysia Garcia (Chico, California: AK Press, 2025) Red Flag Warning is a new collection of essays and interviews dedicated to exploring mutual aid in…
California’s Harmful Algal Bloom: Marine Wildlife in Crisis
Marine mammals on the coast of California are currently suffering unprecedented devastation and mass-death due to an ongoing harmful algal bloom (or HAB, as Heal the Bay calls it) that is tragic evidence of the worsening climate emergency produced by…
Lessons from the History of MayDay
By the East Bay Syndicalists Group May First is a labor holiday that originated in the anti-labor repression and violence in the USA in the Gilded Age of the late 1800s. That was the era when Social Darwinism was the…
Fighting the MAGA Assault
By East Bay Syndicalists Group Since Trump was inaugurated and brought in billionaire oligarch Elon Musk and his hacker team to do a wrecking operation on many programs and agencies of the federal government, Trump and his team have moved…
Green Transition From Above or From Below?
A review of Jeremy Brecher’s Green New Deal From Below When I use the phrase green transition in this review, I’m referring to the shift of human society away from a reliance on the burning of fossil fuels — creating…
Green Unionism Done Right
A Brief Review of the “Roadmap to Contra Costa County Refinery Transition” Recently a group of refinery workers’ unions and Bay Area environmental justice groups released an overview of a Roadmap to Contra Costa County Refinery Transition. In a reformist…
The Challenge and Reality of the Green Energy Transition: A Reply to Peter Gelderloos
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…