Steve Ongerth On The Bombing Of Judi Bari And Redwood Summer
Interview on the It’s Going Down podcast Steve Ongerth on the Bombing of Judi Bari and Redwood Summer | It’s Going Down (itsgoingdown.org)
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…
A History of Class-Struggle Anarchism
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…
Malatesta’s Revolutionary Anarchism in British Exile
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…
Socialize the Railways!
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…
An Attempted Marxist-Anarchist Dialogue
A Review of Michael Löwy & Oliver Besancenot, Revolutionary Affinities: Toward a Marxist-Anarchist Solidarity, published by PM Press This review was written originally for Anarkismo dot net. At first it might seem absurd to seek overlaps between these two schools…
The Case for Building New Unions
By Tom Wetzel The British writer R. H. Tawney once described capitalist management of the workplace as “autocracy checked by insurgency.” And, indeed, a kind of insurgency takes place when workers band together to form unions. Worker unions are a…
Review of Jason Hickel, Less Is More
By Tom Wetzel Jason Hickel is apparently one of the most popular of the “degrowthers” in Europe. He is a good speaker and can give a smooth, fact-filled presentation. But his book Less is More is very frustrating. Like a…
Let’s Make Every Day Labor Day!
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…
The Working Class Stake in the Fight Against Global Warming
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…