by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn / Industrial Worker It seemed like any normal workday for Kimberly Jones at the ALDI grocery store in Utica, New York– as normal as it can be for a frontline worker during a pandemic. Jones had worked at ALDI for nearly three years but […]
by Jo Freeman “The Tyranny of Structurelessness” was first published in 1970 to address the need for organisation in the US women’s liberation movement. Freeman’s classic essay has over years reached many different social and political movements in addition to the women’s liberation movement. As the Black Lives […]
by Joel Olsen/Black Rose Anarchist Federation The following commentary is from the Black Rose Anarchist Federation. This now classic essay by the late Joel Olson (1967-2012) reflects on the state of US anarchist milieu from the 1990’s through the 2000’s. Olson was a long time anarchist writer, organizer, political […]
by Jason E. Smith The surprising announcement by Bernie Sanders this week that he will end his 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary bid offers us a critical moment to reflect on the strategic moment we face – especially given the dramatic economic and social crisis of Covid-19 that […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn / Organizing Work For anyone who has been to an IWW 101 Workplace Organizer Training, you may recall the sage advice of your trainer, who warned you to watch out for “hot shops.” To avoid them at all costs, even. This is my hot shop […]
by Pamela Anderson In his famous poem, “The Solution,” Bertolt Brecht joked that “the people had forfeited the confidence of the government” and it would be easier “for the government to dissolve the people and elect another.” This has given me food for thought. I am in the […]
by Christopher Hanna Now more than ever, universities are in a state of crisis. American students are facing down gruesome levels of debt profiteering and escalating right-wing attacks against public higher ed — and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. As the nationwide turn towards fascism advances, […]
by Marc Normandin/SBNation The minor leagues contain much of the romantic allure that leads people to a life of baseball fandom. While 30 Major League Baseball teams play in many of the nation’s largest cities, Minor League Baseball is spread out across the country, in 256 towns and […]
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