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…
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…
By Members of Workers Solidarity Alliance in East Bay and New York/New Jersey On Monday, September 4, 2023, U.S. Americans celebrate the Labor Day holiday. Let’s Make Every Day Labor Day! — No, we don’t mean let’s take every day…
By Tom Wetzel I’m going to suggest here that the working class has a unique role to play in the fight against global warming because the owning and managing classes have interests that are tied to an economic system that…
We are republishing here Wayne Price’s review of Overcoming Capitalism from Black Flag. Review of Tom Wetzel, Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century Tom Wetzel advocates a syndicalist approach to achieve libertarian ecosocialism. He is…
We’re re-publishing this report from the Black Rose Anarchist Federation. By Healthcare Worker Members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra Labor Committee Last May, 200 anti-authoritarian healthcare workers gathered together in Durham, North Carolina for the first Health Autonomy Convergence (HAC). With…
By Steve Ongerth – While the IWW is not an explicitely anarcho-syndicalist organization, much of its praxis fits comfortably within the anarcho-syndicalist tradition. It’s not the only revolutionary organization or union that does, either, and it’s evident that anarcho-syndicalism as…
By Tom Wetzel “The labor movement today is in miserable shape, probably worse than in any period of labor history,” writes Joe Burns. To get out of this situation and rebuild unionism as an effective fighting force, Burns proposes a…