Spanish Civil War and Revolution Reading List
(Alpha by author) Original Source Material: Eyewitness Accounts Historical Scholarship
Category Labor
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…
(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),…
You Can’t Just Speak a General Strike, Let Alone a Revolution, into Existence
By That Green Union Guy – IWW Eco Union Caucus, July 27, 2025 As the crises unfolding from Felonious Trump’s lawless coup continue, and the apparent inability by what’s left of the American putatively constitutional government to stop it grow…
The AI Con: Another Twist in the Saga of Work Degradation Under Capitalism
Review of The AI Con by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna The book The AI Con is a clearly-written and fairly concise examination of the reality of “Artificial Intelligence” and its use to intensify or degrade work and eliminate jobs…
Socialism and the Principles of the International Working Men’s Association
By Rudolf Rocker Image: Art UK This article is reprinted from the May-June 1933 issue of Vanguard. The development of the labor movement in most of the countries following the dissolution of the First International places into sharp relief the…
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…
Against Productivism
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…