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…
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 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…
Green Syndicalism combines syndicalism with eco-anarchism: Green Syndicalism is based on the recognition that workers — and direct worker and community alliances — can be a force against the environmentally destructive actions of capitalist firms. The goal of Green Syndicalism…
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 A major influence on radical thinking since the Russian revolution is the form of radical politics called Leninism. The name derives from the central role of the Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin in shaping the direction of the…