Five Theses on the Class Struggle - by Anton Pannekoek
Anton Pannekoek's classic manifesto against state socialism (democratic or otherwise) and for council communism, an industrial society governed by a democracy of workers' councils
Corona crisis: Can workers avoid the job vs. health trap?
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on May 2 2020 12:55
The Great Irish Cement Strike of 1970 - "FE 3 C. (CEMENT)"
Hugely entertaining account of the Peoples Democracy group's militant support for the six month unofficial strike by cement workers in Drogheda and Limerick in 1970.
From Anarchy #6 (second series) 1971.
'Living and Dying on the Factory Floor’ - by Dave Ranney
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Nov 26 2019 20:08
This book is a thoughtful and easy-to-read account of the author's experiences in various industrial workplaces in the US in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
“This is overdue”: Interview with a striking General Motors worker
Submitted by R Totale on Sep 19 2019 16:45
As General Motors reaped $8.1 billion in profit and paid its CEO $22 million, nearly 50,000 GM workers have been on strike since Monday. While workers gave major concessions during the previous recession the company is digging in it’s heels over wages and has even cut off healthcare plans for workers. Marianne Garneau of Organizing Work interviewed Lynn, a rank-and-file UAW and Black Rose/Rosa Negra member, on strike at a components plant in Rochester.
1933: Barre Granite Workers Strike
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jun 28 2019 18:19
Account of a strike by Quarrymen in Vermont in 1933.
Interview on the strike wave in Mexico
Ray Valentine interviews Patrick Cuninghame, a History and Sociology lecturer at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (UAM) in Mexico City, about the strike wave in Mexico this year. The strikes started in Matamoros, among workers in maquiladoras (assembly plants), and later spread to seven universities, including UAM. This interview was first published on the Organizing Work blog.
Amazon: A new business model better able to manage the contradictions of the capitalist mode of production
An attempt to understand the functioning of one the world's most powerful companies using marxist categories - explaining how Amazon manages to combine the functions of productive, comercial and finance capital. The intention is, of course, to try to work out the implications for class strugle...
New trade union bureaucracies or rank-and-file workers’ power? Lessons of the Matamoros workers’ rebellion: Part one
Submitted by Soapy on Mar 30 2019 14:03
Two months after workers launched wildcat strikes in the Mexican city of Matamoros, 89 “maquiladora” factories, mostly in the auto parts, electric, and metallurgical industries, have agreed to workers’ demands for a 20 percent raise and a bonus of 32,000 pesos (US$1,655)—half of the average yearly salary. The strike wave has become known across Mexico as the “20/32 movement.”
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