Industrial Unionism

More than a century ago, the US government tried to silence Marie Equi, a radical queer abortionist.

Fourth section of Herman Gorter's "Open Letter to Comrade Lenin".

Tim Scott calls for firing workers. Nikki Haley celebrates union busting. And Trump's attacking UAW leaders.

Section 2 of chapter 8 of "Storming Heaven" on the radical workerist history journal Primo Maggio.

First published in the summer of 2022 on the website of US labor magazine ASR. The first in a series of three essays about syndicalist vision, strategy and movement building. The author is a member of the Swedish union SAC. Photos of Swedish syndicalists: Food production workers (2019), Lumberjacks (1975), University employees (2019), Construction worker (1976).

The recently rereleased 1979 film can teach today's workers how to throw their weight around.

The second section of Herman Gorter's "Open Letter to Comrade Lenin".

The carmaker is now US labor's most important target. If Musk doesn't like that, he's welcome to settle it with an auto worker by cage match

Polling shows exceptionally wide support for the union's bold demands.

First section of the chapter on Potere Operaio in Steve Wright's "Storming Heaven".

The best introduction to CLR James and related organizations. Selma James joined the Johnson-Forest Tendency when she was about 15 years old in 1945. In 1956, she married CLR James and they remained together nearly 25 years. Here is her firsthand account of CLR and how their organizations worked. We highly encourage you to purchase her collections of writings Sex, Race, and Class from PM Press.

Forget the "woke" Democrats and timid union leaders. Workers across the country are standing up and fighting back

Including: John Reed on Eugene Debs, "the lust of victory is postponing peace" by Sylvia Pankhurst, marxist industrial unionism, IWW in court in Chicago, women and industry after the war, etc.

The UAW president's high-profile advocacy for a cease-fire in Gaza renews a tradition of advocacy for peace and justice by class-conscious union leaders. And he's not alone.

E. Tammy Kim on how blue-collar campus workers won a majority on New Haven's city council, and on whether an alliance with grad students would dilute their power.

The president has highlighted his pro-union credentials, but inflation has eroded blue-collar livelihoods and chilled support for the president on the picket lines.

The first section of chapter 8 of "Storning Heaven", on the reapprasial of the German revolution by Italian militants.

Much has been said about the criminal syndicalism laws in the United States and the outlawing of syndicalist organizing under the first Red Scare in 1919. Yet it is often overlooked that similar laws targeting the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) were passed in Canada in the context of capitalist attacks on militant working class organizing, and ruling class xenophobia, and fear of transnational labor…

A new history examines the lost promise and fierce persecution of the IWW.