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…
[Editor’s note: Our friends in the local chapter of Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation had a standing room only event on July 18th for a book on the history of the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU) — an organization with significant…
Review of Zoe Baker, Means & Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States (2023) By Wayne Price This is an outstanding overview of the anarchist movement. It covers the period from 1868 (the approximate beginning…
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…
The politics of “degrowth” are an important present-day trend in ecosocialism. The authors of The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism try to explain this approach and its strategy for change. The politics of “degrowth” are…
By Tom Wetzel As the burning of fossil fuels continues to pump up the size of the carbon dioxide layer in the atmosphere, the global warming crisis becomes ever more acute. In its “Code Red for Humanity” warning in 2021,…