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Clicking on the title of an item takes you to the bibliographic reference for the resource, which will typically also contain an abstract, a link to the full text if it is available online, and links to related topics in the subject index. Particularly recommended items have a red Connexions logo beside the title.

The Abolition of the State
Anarchist & Marxist Perspectives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Both Anarchists and Marxists believe that it will be possible to do away with the state. But what do they mean by that? What is the state, after all? What institutions, if any, would be necessary to replace its functions? Would a transitional “dictatorship of the proletariat” be needed or will it be possible to immediately abolish the state? Does modern technology require a centralized institution such as the state? Throughout the history of revolutions, the people have created workplace councils and neighborhood assemblies--how could these replace the state?
The Abolition of the State
Anarchist & Marxist Perspectives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Both Anarchists and Marxists believe that it will be possible to do away with the state. But what do they mean by that? What is the state, after all? What institutions, if any, would be necessary to replace its functions? Would a transitional “dictatorship of the proletariat” be needed or will it be possible to immediately abolish the state? Does modern technology require a centralized institution such as the state? Throughout the history of revolutions, the people have created workplace councils and neighborhood assemblies--how could these replace the state?
Against the Current
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
Against the Current
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
Against the Tide
The Story of the Canadian Seaman's Union
Resource Type: Book
Against the Tide
The Story of the Canadian Seaman's Union
Resource Type: Book
All That Our Hands Have Done
A Pictorial History of Hamilton Workers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
The story of working people in Hamilton's steel industry.
All That Our Hands Have Done
A Pictorial History of Hamilton Workers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
The story of working people in Hamilton's steel industry.
Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Alternative Press Center
Resource Type: Organization
Annotated links to alternative points of view available on the Internet.
The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
A history of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had over 150,000 dues-paying members, published hundreds of newspaper4s, and won almost a million votes for its presidential candidate.
The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
A history of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had over 150,000 dues-paying members, published hundreds of newspaper4s, and won almost a million votes for its presidential candidate.
The American Worker
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947 Published: 1972
A description and analysis of the lives of American factory workrers after the Second World War, written by a young autoworker.
The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
The Anarchist Collectives
Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
Asia: Realities of "Recovery"
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Why are we still talking about the Asian crisis? In recent months we have heard government policy-makers, economists, business journalists, financial analysts, IMF technocrats, big business and even some unions announce that “the Asian financial crisis is over.”
At the Lenin Shipyards
Poland and the Rise of the Solidarity Trade Union
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
A first-hand account of the rise of the Solidarity trade union in Poland.
Battle in Nicaragua's Maquiladoras
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Nicaragua has only one major "free trade zone," Las Mercedes, and unlike the rest of Central America, half of the workers there have managed to build unions. Recently the zone management and the Labor Ministry are helping employers to implement a variety of union-busting actions:
'Be his payment high or low'
The American Working Class in the Sixties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1965
Whether workers win a particular struggle or are forced to retreat or manage to hold their own varies considerably with time and place and the particular relationship of forces in each factory. What remains constant throughout, however, is the struggle itself and the search for new social forms.
Beating Back the Corporate Attack
Socialism and the struggle for global justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Our movement is calling for a new direction -- for democratic control of our political life, and for democratic control over the most important aspects of the economy. Why should handful of the super-rich run the planet, and, moreover, run it into the ground?
Beyond the Fields
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
There is a strong historical link between the United Farm Workers in its heyday and myriad forms of progressive activism today. UFW alumni, ideas, and strategies have influenced Latino political empowerment, the immigrant rights movement, union membership growth, and on-going coalitions between labor, community, campus, and religious groups.
Beyond the Fields
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
There is a strong historical link between the United Farm Workers in its heyday and myriad forms of progressive activism today. UFW alumni, ideas, and strategies have influenced Latino political empowerment, the immigrant rights movement, union membership growth, and on-going coalitions between labor, community, campus, and religious groups.
Big Three Win A Modular Future: Contract Hype and Reality
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
The 1999 contract talks between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three auto makers, plus General Motors' Delphi spin-off, offer one more demonstration of what the mainstream media like to call improved relations between the union and the company. Whatever the media mainliners think of this overused phrase, in practice it means greater consensus between top union leaders and company officials.
Break Their Haughty Power
Resource Type: Website
Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
The Business Page
How To Read It and Understand the Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
The Business Page
How To Read It and Understand the Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Canadian Books on Labour
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
The Canadian Left
A Critical Analysis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
The main focus of the book is the emergence and development of Canadian socialist thought. Penner examines the origins of the Communist Party of Canada and its ideological base and the beginings and development of the CCF-NDP.
The Canadian Left
A Critical Analysis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
The main focus of the book is the emergence and development of Canadian socialist thought. Penner examines the origins of the Communist Party of Canada and its ideological base and the beginings and development of the CCF-NDP.
Canadian Union News Vol. 7, #1.
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1867 Published: 1890
Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1867 Published: 1890
Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
Capitalism and the National Question in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Essays examining a variety of questions about Canada's past, from a Marxist perspective.
The Case of Northwest Airlines: Workers' Rights & Wrongs
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Four years ago, when asked by an academic journal to write about whether the strike was still a viable weapon in labor’s “arsenal,” my title was blunt: “Is the Strike Dead?”(1) As is my style, I introduced some historical material and offered an analysis of the anti-labor bias of the past 25 years, during which the number of “large” strikes (involving 1,000 or more workers) had declined from more than 400 per year to less than 30.
Challenging Unions
Feminist Process and Democracy in the Labour Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Challenging Unions
Feminist Process and Democracy in the Labour Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
The Changing Workplace
Reshaping Canada's Industrial Relations System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Describes how business, labour and government have organized the production of goods and services in Canada since 1945. Focusing on the industrial relations system and how it works, the authors call for fresh thinking on the economy and offer proposals for the reorganization of production.
Chinese Workers' Resistance
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Norm Diamond interviews Tim Pringle. Tim Pringle lives in Hong Kong, where he participates as an observer and also as a member of the editorial board of the Chinese-language magazine Globalization Monitor.
The Chinese Working Women's Network
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
There is no doubt that China is growing rapidly in importance in the global economy. China has now surpassed the United States as the largest destination in the world for foreign investment. While many U.S. businesses (and other multinationals) look eagerly to both the large Chinese market and the very low wages of Chinese workers, the U.S. labor movement has been focused on stopping the flow of U.S. production and jobs to China.
The Chinese Working Women's Network
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
There is no doubt that China is growing rapidly in importance in the global economy. China has now surpassed the United States as the largest destination in the world for foreign investment. While many U.S. businesses (and other multinationals) look eagerly to both the large Chinese market and the very low wages of Chinese workers, the U.S. labor movement has been focused on stopping the flow of U.S. production and jobs to China.
The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor
Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Steve Early explains why and how the 2008-2010 battles within the progressive wing of the U.S. labour movement occurred.
A Class Act
An Illustrated History of the Labour Movement in Newfoundland and Labrador
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Gillespie records the men and women who struggled within an economic system they did not control to improve the lives of their families and their class.
Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
Class Struggle Beyond Unionism: Boston-Area Public Workers' Ferment, 1981-82
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Class Unionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905 Published: 1909
Cleaners' Action Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Close the 49th Parallel Etc
The Americanization of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
The increasing Americanization of Canada is now evident to all, and it is also becoming evident that the elites in Canada have been anxious to avoid any confrontation of this fact or any examination of its consequences. This collection of essays attempts to display some of the effects of US corporate imperialism and the permissive policy of its Canadian supporters, to analyse the the ideologies involved, to explain the social, economic and political costs of the process, and to suggest how it might be reversed.
Close the 49th Parallel Etc
The Americanization of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
The increasing Americanization of Canada is now evident to all, and it is also becoming evident that the elites in Canada have been anxious to avoid any confrontation of this fact or any examination of its consequences. This collection of essays attempts to display some of the effects of US corporate imperialism and the permissive policy of its Canadian supporters, to analyse the the ideologies involved, to explain the social, economic and political costs of the process, and to suggest how it might be reversed.
Collective Action - and Victory! France: CPE Goes Down
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Millions of young people in France have lived through the experience of collective action and of an important victory, young people who just a few weeks earlier had paid no attention to political organization. In the end the movement won: the "First Employment Contract" (CPE) has been annulled.
Collective Bargaining Course Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Columbia's Paramilitary Politics
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
In a surprise move in the early morning of May 13th, Colombian President Álvaro Uríbe announced the extradition of fourteen top paramilitary leaders to the United States, where they are charged with cocaine trafficking and money laundering. His move has provoked an outcry from victims’ and human rights groups, who fear that the extraditions will undercut efforts to hold the paramilitaries accountable for massacres, disappearances, torture, extra-judicial executions, and the displacement of thousands of people in Colombia.
Columbia's Paramilitary Politics
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
In a surprise move in the early morning of May 13th, Colombian President Álvaro Uríbe announced the extradition of fourteen top paramilitary leaders to the United States, where they are charged with cocaine trafficking and money laundering. His move has provoked an outcry from victims’ and human rights groups, who fear that the extraditions will undercut efforts to hold the paramilitaries accountable for massacres, disappearances, torture, extra-judicial executions, and the displacement of thousands of people in Colombia.
Combatting Racism in the Workplace
A Course for Workers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Combatting Racism in the Workplace
A Course for Workers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Combatting Racism in the Workplace Readings Kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Readings and case studies on fighting racism.
Common Sense for Hard Times
The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Connexions
Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Connexions
Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Connexions
Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Connexions
Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Connexions
Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Connexions
Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Connexions
Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Connexions
Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Connexions
Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Connexions
Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Connexions
Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Connexions
Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Connexions
Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Connexions
Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Connexions
Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Connexions
Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Connexions
Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Connexions
Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Connexions
Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Connexions
Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Connexions
Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Connexions
Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Connexions
Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Connexions
Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Connexions
Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Connexions
Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Connexions
Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
Constitution and By-Laws of Industrial Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905
The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life....
Cracking the Canadian Formula
The Making of the Energy and Chemical Workers Union
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Craft Unionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905
The old form of trade unionism no longer meets the demands of the working class. The old trade union has not only fulfilled its mission and outlived its usefulness, but that it is now positively reactionary.
Craft Unionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905
The old form of trade unionism no longer meets the demands of the working class. The old trade union has not only fulfilled its mission and outlived its usefulness, but that it is now positively reactionary.
Critique of Syndicalist Methods
Trade-Unionism to Anarcho-Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975 Published: 1998
Bonanno's 1975 meditation on the means to be used in pursuit of the anarchist project. Emphasizes the utility of unions in propagating capitalist control of industry and agriculture.
Critique of Syndicalist Methods
Trade-Unionism to Anarcho-Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975 Published: 1998
Bonanno's 1975 meditation on the means to be used in pursuit of the anarchist project. Emphasizes the utility of unions in propagating capitalist control of industry and agriculture.
CUPW 1981: Mother's Rights, Union Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
The Danish General Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES have constituted the foremost outposts on the reformist road to socialism. One of them, Denmark, a small country of five million people, has become a flashpoint in the continuing clash between the welfare state and the globalization of capital.
DARE's Struggles in Rhode Island
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Let's start in a scene from last summer that will be familiar, not exactly but approximately, to many older readers: the labor awards banquet. The setting is a "casino"— in the 1880s sense of a banquet hall, used for wedding receptions and assorted fraternal functions for six generations — set in a venerable public park in a working-class neighborhood, long ago designed by Frederick Law Olmstead.
DARE's Struggles in Rhode Island
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Let's start in a scene from last summer that will be familiar, not exactly but approximately, to many older readers: the labor awards banquet. The setting is a "casino"— in the 1880s sense of a banquet hall, used for wedding receptions and assorted fraternal functions for six generations — set in a venerable public park in a working-class neighborhood, long ago designed by Frederick Law Olmstead.
Death in the Haymarket
A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
The story of the anarchosyndicalist militants accused of perpetrating the throwing of a bomb that killed police at a workers' rally at the Haymarket in Chicago on May 4, 1886.
The Demise of Andy Stern and the Question of Unions in Contemporary Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
A meaningful advance of workers’ struggles means bringing into existence class-wide organizations. Where those with such a perspective find themselves, by hook or by crook, in trade unions, the issue is to broaden struggles to include the unemployed wherever possible.
Democracy for the Few
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988 Published: 1995
How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
Democracy's Oxygen
How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
DRUM was formed in May 1968 during the course of a wildcat strike that protested against an increase in production without an increase in man-power. Most of the plant porkchoppers were off in Atlantic City at a union convention and the plant was shut down by a joint effort of older Polish women from the Trim Shop and young black workers.
Eat Pray Love Strike
The Law of the Bargaining Table
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
We admire underdogs, yet we do not rejoice when underdogs go on strike against corporate fat cats. We admire hard-workers, yet we do not embrace those who are, arguably, the hardest-workers among us - the stoop laborers who pick our lettuce and strawberries.
Eat Pray Love Strike
The Law of the Bargaining Table
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
We admire underdogs, yet we do not rejoice when underdogs go on strike against corporate fat cats. We admire hard-workers, yet we do not embrace those who are, arguably, the hardest-workers among us - the stoop laborers who pick our lettuce and strawberries.
E-Commerce vs. E-Commons
Communications in the public interest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
From privacy issues to intellectual property, from universal access to union activism, these essays challenge the rush to deregulate and disconnect communications from the public interest.
The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
1845-1875
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
1845-1875
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Equality Program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Eugene V. Debs Speaks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Everything's on the Line at AAM
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The strike of 3,600 UAW-represented workers at American Axle and Manufacturing plants in Michigan and New York has forced the idling of more than 40,000 workers in 30 GM plants and shut down a number of parts plants throughout North America. Eighty percent of AAM’s axles, chassis components and forged products are shipped to General Motors, but AAM also produces parts for other automakers, including Chrysler and Toyota.
Everything's on the Line at AAM
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The strike of 3,600 UAW-represented workers at American Axle and Manufacturing plants in Michigan and New York has forced the idling of more than 40,000 workers in 30 GM plants and shut down a number of parts plants throughout North America. Eighty percent of AAM’s axles, chassis components and forged products are shipped to General Motors, but AAM also produces parts for other automakers, including Chrysler and Toyota.
The Exploitation Explosion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Female workers in developing countries are undervalued and underpaid.
The Exploitation Explosion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Female workers in developing countries are undervalued and underpaid.
Facing Reality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958 Published: 1974
Inspired by the October 1956 Hungarian workers' revolution against Stalinist oppression, as well as the U.S. workers' "wild-cat" strikes (against capital and the union bureaucracies), the authors looked ahead to the rise of new mass emancipatory movements by African Americans as well as anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist currents in Africa and Asia. Virtually alone among the radical texts of the time, Facing Reality also rejected modern society's mania for "conquering nature," and welcomed women's struggles "for new relations between the sexes."
Facing the Toyota "Pattern"
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Highly praised as a “breakthrough” in the mainstream and business press, the new United Auto Workers contract at General Motors is a stunning retreat for the union, threatening the existence of most high-paying production jobs throughout the U.S. auto industry. (Skilled trades face drastic downsizing through outsourcing and combining of the trades.)
Facing the Toyota "Pattern"
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Highly praised as a “breakthrough” in the mainstream and business press, the new United Auto Workers contract at General Motors is a stunning retreat for the union, threatening the existence of most high-paying production jobs throughout the U.S. auto industry. (Skilled trades face drastic downsizing through outsourcing and combining of the trades.)
Failure of a Dream?
Essays in the History of American Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
Falling Behind
The State of Working Canada, 2000
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
An accessible collation of data and analysis, analyzed from a progressive perspective, about the social and economic realities of working people in Canada.
Falling Behind
The State of Working Canada, 2000
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
An accessible collation of data and analysis, analyzed from a progressive perspective, about the social and economic realities of working people in Canada.
False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
False Promises: A Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
False Promises is a strange book. Despite a certain carelessness of presentation, I recommend it to all concerned with the working class for its extensive documentation of the working-class experience, at work, in the larger society, and in the unions. It is imbued with the conception that freedom is the fundamental quality of revolutionary change and it rejects the strangling doctrines and structures of the union movement and of the vanguard parties. Yet it cannot overcome a conception of working-class consciousness which reduces workers to victims and consciousness to verbalizations.
Fight for the Forest
Chico Mendes in His Own Words
Resource Type: Book
Chico Mendes talks of his life's work in his last major interview. He recalls the rubber tappers' campaign against forest clearances and their struggle to develop sustainable alternatives for the Amazon.
Fighting for Union Autonomy: Mexican Miners On Strike
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
On April 20 eight hundred state and federal police launched an assault on 500 striking workers who had been occupying a steel mill in Lázaro Cárdenas. Two were killed, five seriously injured and 40 wounded. A video released to the press shows Michoacán police taking aim at the strikers.
Fighting for Union Autonomy: Mexican Miners On Strike
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
On April 20 eight hundred state and federal police launched an assault on 500 striking workers who had been occupying a steel mill in Lázaro Cárdenas. Two were killed, five seriously injured and 40 wounded. A video released to the press shows Michoacán police taking aim at the strikers.
First Contract
Women and the Fight to Unionize
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Looks at the "personal side" of the struggle of working women to organize themselves into unions and win first contracts.
The Flint sit-down strike, 1936-1937
Jeremy Brecher
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
210,000 auto workers joined the American Federation of Labor (A.F.L.) to take part in the strike but the A.F.L leadership however wanted no part in a strike, and managed to postpone it again and again. The workers won control over the rate of production, despite a union contract that conceded this authority to management.
Frequently Asked Questions about Workers Solidarity Alliance
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
From Iron Mines to Iron Bars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Exploring some of the consequences of the long-term decline in union membership and the significant shift in membership towards public sector workers.
From Iron Mines to Iron Bars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Exploring some of the consequences of the long-term decline in union membership and the significant shift in membership towards public sector workers.
General Strike France 1968
A factory-by-factory account
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Andre Hoyles analyses the development, organisation and end of the mass strike in France, 1968, with reference to case studies of particular factories.
Get Up, Stand Up
Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Levine offers insights into the epidemic of political passivity in America and analyzes how major U.S. institutions have created helplessness and fatalism. He proposes ways of recovering dignity, energy, and unity in order to wrest power away from the corporatocracy.
Get Up, Stand Up
Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Levine offers insights into the epidemic of political passivity in America and analyzes how major U.S. institutions have created helplessness and fatalism. He proposes ways of recovering dignity, energy, and unity in order to wrest power away from the corporatocracy.
Global Labour Calendar
Resource Type: Website
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Calendar of trade union and labour-related events.
Global Labour Calendar
Resource Type: Website
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Calendar of trade union and labour-related events.
Globalizing the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
The Canadian trade union movement has to put greater emphasis on using its global ties to prevent multinational companies from shifting their operations to low wage countries.
Globalizing the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
The Canadian trade union movement has to put greater emphasis on using its global ties to prevent multinational companies from shifting their operations to low wage countries.
Gramsci & Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article
In a polemic against the syndicalists, Antonio Gramsci argued that the syndicalists were wrong in maintaining that unions were capable of being organs of workers' revolution. He said this confused a marketing organization of labor within capitalism -- the trade unions -- with an organization for running production in a socialized economy -- the workers councils. Because the function of a union is to affect the terms and conditions of the sale of labor to the employers, he argued, it is an organization specific to a capitalist society.
The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike Against G.M. 1936-37
How Trade Unionism was Won
Resource Type: Article
A history of the Flint strike (1936-1937).
The Great Transformation
The political and economic origins of our time
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1944 Published: 1968
Polanyi analyzes the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements, but as a single human invention he calls the "Market Society".
The Great Transformation
The political and economic origins of our time
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1944 Published: 1968
Polanyi analyzes the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements, but as a single human invention he calls the "Market Society".
Harlan County USA
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 1976
An effort of 180 coal miners and their wives to strike for benefits at the Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky in 1973.
Harlan County USA
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 1976
An effort of 180 coal miners and their wives to strike for benefits at the Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky in 1973.
The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
How the Unions Killed the Working Class Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
An analysis of how the vertical integration of unions disempowers workers and forces them to use captilist systems such as courts instead of relying on friendship and solidarity.
How the Unions Killed the Working Class Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
An analysis of how the vertical integration of unions disempowers workers and forces them to use captilist systems such as courts instead of relying on friendship and solidarity.
How to Jump-Start Your Union
Lessons from the Chicago Teachers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
How to Jump-Start Your Union tells how activists transformed their union and gave members hope. Readers will learn how to run for office, work with their communities, build stewards' networks, train new leaders, run a contract campaign, and strike.
Ideas and Action
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
Imperialism, Nationalism, and Canada.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Interpretations of Canada's status in the system of world imperialism and the internal dynamics of class, race, and region within the Canadian national state.
India’s Autoworkers Behaving Like the Old UAW
The Real Deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
While it’s true that international banks and corporations have their slimy tentacles in everything from foreign governments to foreign armies, the world’s workers have two weapons of their own. One is the crippling, paralyzing effect of no-go dockworkers. The other is the logistical potential of the Internet.
Industrial Unionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905
In capitalist society you are the lower class; the capitalists are the upper class-because they are on your backs; if they were not on your backs they could not be above you.
Industrial Workers of the World
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The IWW contends that all workers should be united as a class and that the wage system should be abolished. They may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which workers elect recallable delegates, and other norms of grassroots democracy (self-management) are implemented.
Industry and Labour
Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
An Injury to All
The Decline of American Unionism
Resource Type: Book
The author, a union organizer and activist, details the decline of the American union movement.
An Injury to All
The Decline of American Unionism
Resource Type: Book
The author, a union organizer and activist, details the decline of the American union movement.
International Labour Office (ILO) Publications
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
International Labor Rights Forum
Resource Type: Website
An advocacy organization dedicated to achieving just and humane treatment for workers worldwide.
International Labor Rights Forum
Resource Type: Website
An advocacy organization dedicated to achieving just and humane treatment for workers worldwide.
International Trade Union Summit on Privatization Proceedings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
An Interview with Patricia Campbell
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Patricia Campbell is President of the Irish Independent Workers Union (IWU), an independent trade union and social movement in both the north and south of Ireland. She is a deputy editor of the journal Fourthwrite, founded by a group of Irish Republicans most of whom are former political prisoners from the Republican movement.
An Interview with Patricia Campbell
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Patricia Campbell is President of the Irish Independent Workers Union (IWU), an independent trade union and social movement in both the north and south of Ireland. She is a deputy editor of the journal Fourthwrite, founded by a group of Irish Republicans most of whom are former political prisoners from the Republican movement.
Introduction to When the UAW Was Young
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Introduction to When the UAW Was Young
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
It's Never Been Easy
Essays on Modern Labor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Most of the labor essays included here were written over the last seven years and appeared originally in various publications, including CounterPunch, The Exception Magazine, Liberalati, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, State of Nature, and Synthesis/Regeneration. This book is dedicated to working men and women everywhere, but particularly to the members of America's labor unions' those individuals who carry out the work, solve the problems, make it happen, but who, alas, rarely share in the treasure or glory.
It's Never Been Easy
Essays on Modern Labor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Most of the labor essays included here were written over the last seven years and appeared originally in various publications, including CounterPunch, The Exception Magazine, Liberalati, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, State of Nature, and Synthesis/Regeneration. This book is dedicated to working men and women everywhere, but particularly to the members of America's labor unions' those individuals who carry out the work, solve the problems, make it happen, but who, alas, rarely share in the treasure or glory.
Jim Crutchfield's I.W.W. Page
Resource Type: Website
Historic documents on the Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies).
The Junk Food Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Young people entering the workforce face a junk food economy.
Just Another Cog in the Machine
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
Using wordplay & a photocopier to promote starting a union.
Karl Marx: Essential Writings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
A selection of Marx's writings ranging from his early works on philosophy, religion, alienation, and Hegelianism, through the materialist conception of history, the theoretical analysis of capitalism, and the politics of revolution. Bender provides informatative introductions setting the context for each set of materials.
Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
Knights of Labor
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
The major labour reform organization of the late 19th century in the United States.
The "Labor Aristocracy" and Working-Class Struggles: Consciousness in Flux, Part 2
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Whatever the theoretical and empirical problems with the economics of the labor aristocracy thesis, its defenders still claim that well paid workers have generally been more reformist and conservative in their politics than lower paid workers. They point to the example of mostly white New York City construction workers ("hardhats") attacking antiwar demonstrators in the Spring of 1970; and contrast them with the militancy and progressive politics of some of the recent "Justice for Janitors" campaigns.
The "Labor Aristocracy" and Working-Class Struggles: Consciousness in Flux, Part 2
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Whatever the theoretical and empirical problems with the economics of the labor aristocracy thesis, its defenders still claim that well paid workers have generally been more reformist and conservative in their politics than lower paid workers. They point to the example of mostly white New York City construction workers ("hardhats") attacking antiwar demonstrators in the Spring of 1970; and contrast them with the militancy and progressive politics of some of the recent "Justice for Janitors" campaigns.
Labor on the Ropes
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
In U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition, Kim Moody focuses on why the organized labor movement went into decline and points to potential signs of revival. The author’s explanation begins with the worsening economic situation in the 1970s and a harsher anti-union climate, both politically and in the workplace, as “business refined its ability to act as a class.”
Labor on the Ropes
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
In U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition, Kim Moody focuses on why the organized labor movement went into decline and points to potential signs of revival. The author’s explanation begins with the worsening economic situation in the 1970s and a harsher anti-union climate, both politically and in the workplace, as “business refined its ability to act as a class.”
LaborNet
Resource Type: Website
Exists to build a democratic communication network for the labor movement.
LaborNet
Resource Type: Website
Exists to build a democratic communication network for the labor movement.
Labor's Disaster at American Axle
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The 87-day strike earlier this year at American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM) ended in a rout that has devastating implications for the organized U.S. labor movement. Begun on a snowy morning early February 26, the strike ended on May 22, a late spring day just before the Memorial Day weekend.
Labor's Disaster at American Axle
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The 87-day strike earlier this year at American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM) ended in a rout that has devastating implications for the organized U.S. labor movement. Begun on a snowy morning early February 26, the strike ended on May 22, a late spring day just before the Memorial Day weekend.
Labour Gains, Labour Pains
50 Years of PC 1003
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
This book is comprised of 4 parts: Historical Context, Origins and Evolution of the Fordist Accord, Case Studies, International Comparisons.
Labour in an Affluent Society
Resource Type: Article
Put together by the Radical Education Project, this paper includes the following articles: "WILDCAT: anatomy of a work stoppage" by Steve Fox; "THE BRUNS STRIKE: a case study of student participation in labor" by C. Clark Kissinger; and "BLUE RIDGE: The History of the Levi Strike" by Brenda Mull.
Labour in an Affluent Society
Resource Type: Article
Put together by the Radical Education Project, this paper includes the following articles: "WILDCAT: anatomy of a work stoppage" by Steve Fox; "THE BRUNS STRIKE: a case study of student participation in labor" by C. Clark Kissinger; and "BLUE RIDGE: The History of the Levi Strike" by Brenda Mull.
Labour in Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Labour Left Out
Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Labour Left Out
Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Labour Martyr: Joe Hill
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
The story of the rebel songwriter and union activst Joe Hill, who was murdered by the state of Utah in 1915.
Labor Politics in Action, 1901-1911: The Union Labor Party of San Francisco
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
In 1900 San Francisco had an organized labor movement that reflected the unique development of this metropolis of the West. San Francisco did not experience the slow and steady growth of Chicago and other cities of the plains, but became a city overnight in 1850 when thousands of gold seekers poured in from the East and every part of Europe, and beyond.
Labor Politics in Action, 1901-1911: The Union Labor Party of San Francisco
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
In 1900 San Francisco had an organized labor movement that reflected the unique development of this metropolis of the West. San Francisco did not experience the slow and steady growth of Chicago and other cities of the plains, but became a city overnight in 1850 when thousands of gold seekers poured in from the East and every part of Europe, and beyond.
Labor Scores at Verizon
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
On August 6 87,000 members of the Communication Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) struck Verizon Communications in twelve states from Maine to Virginia, and the District of Columbia. At the heart of the strike was the unions' attempt to maintain wall to wall unionization in an industry which is rapidly changing, to strengthen job security for workers in the wake of a national merger, and to fight the spread of lean production. The three-year contract we won represents a major victory on all of these issues.
Labor Scores at Verizon
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
On August 6 87,000 members of the Communication Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) struck Verizon Communications in twelve states from Maine to Virginia, and the District of Columbia. At the heart of the strike was the unions' attempt to maintain wall to wall unionization in an industry which is rapidly changing, to strengthen job security for workers in the wake of a national merger, and to fight the spread of lean production. The three-year contract we won represents a major victory on all of these issues.
The Labor Wars
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973 Published: 1974
A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
Labour WebRing: hub
Resource Type: Website
Featuring trade unions/trade unionists, labour/labor organizations and union activists worldwide.
Labour's Side
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
LabourStart
Resource Type: Website
A major site with information about labour activities throughout the world.
LabourStart
Resource Type: Website
A major site with information about labour activities throughout the world.
"Left-Wing" Communism
An Infantile Disorder
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918
Lenin's repsonse to ultraleftists who advocate 'no compromises' and refuse to work in 'reactionary' trade unions and parliamentary elections.
Let's Be Practical
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Building a movement to destroy capitalism and create a society which truly reflects the aspirations of most people, though it may sound scary, is actually more practical than trying to reform a union.
Let's Be Practical
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Building a movement to destroy capitalism and create a society which truly reflects the aspirations of most people, though it may sound scary, is actually more practical than trying to reform a union.
Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
Great Cities of North America Since 1600
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
Live Working or Die Fighting
How the Working Class Went Global
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Mason realtes a series of struggles for worker and human rights over the past two hundred years and compares them to current struggles.
Live Working or Die Fighting
How the Working Class Went Global
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Mason realtes a series of struggles for worker and human rights over the past two hundred years and compares them to current struggles.
Locked Out! One Wife's Story of the Staley Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Loosing Another Round
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The strike at American Axle, which we reported on in ATC 134, ended when workers voted to go back under a concessionary agreement. The 25% who voted no didn’t feel they were close to winning but they said they couldn’t look themselves in the mirror if they voted yes. Yet the strike idled nearly three dozen assembly plants and put enormous pressure on GM. The UAW did not develop a longterm relationship with the union at the AAM plant in Mexico. All during the strike that plant produced 6,000 axles a day, thus enabling GM to keep some production going.
Loosing Another Round
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The strike at American Axle, which we reported on in ATC 134, ended when workers voted to go back under a concessionary agreement. The 25% who voted no didn’t feel they were close to winning but they said they couldn’t look themselves in the mirror if they voted yes. Yet the strike idled nearly three dozen assembly plants and put enormous pressure on GM. The UAW did not develop a longterm relationship with the union at the AAM plant in Mexico. All during the strike that plant produced 6,000 axles a day, thus enabling GM to keep some production going.
The Making of Jericho Road
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
Marxism and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
Marxism and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
A Marxist History of the World part 102: What is neoliberalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The ‘free-market’ theory provides a pseudo-scientific justification for the greed and poverty endemic to the system, and the main beneficiaries are the global mega-corporations of neoliberal capitalism.
Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1906
Luxemburg writes that "the mass strike in Russia [in 1905] has been realised not as means of evading the political struggle of the working-class, and especially of parliamentarism, not as a means of jumping suddenly into the social revolution by means of a theatrical coup, but as a means, firstly, of creating for the proletariat the conditions of the daily political struggle and especially of parliamentarism. The revolutionary struggle in Russia, in which mass strikes are the most important weapon, is, by the working people, and above all by the proletariat, conducted for those political rights and conditions whose necessity and importance in the struggle for the emancipation of the working-class Marx and Engels first pointed out, and in opposition to anarchism fought for with all their might in the International."
The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1906
Luxemburg writes that "the mass strike in Russia [in 1905] has been realised not as means of evading the political struggle of the working-class, and especially of parliamentarism, not as a means of jumping suddenly into the social revolution by means of a theatrical coup, but as a means, firstly, of creating for the proletariat the conditions of the daily political struggle and especially of parliamentarism. The revolutionary struggle in Russia, in which mass strikes are the most important weapon, is, by the working people, and above all by the proletariat, conducted for those political rights and conditions whose necessity and importance in the struggle for the emancipation of the working-class Marx and Engels first pointed out, and in opposition to anarchism fought for with all their might in the International."
Los Mexicanos: The Struggle for Justice of Patricia Perez
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
Every year, some 4000 migrant foreign workers coming mostly from Mexico, labour in Quebec farms to plant and pick our vegetables. In the summer of 2006, Patricia Perez a pro-union militant speaking for the UFCW, launches a major drive to organize the workers in several farms south of Montreal.
Miners and Steelworkers
Labour in Cape Breton
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Monographs on the Portuguese
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
Never Say Die!
Resource Type: Book
Autobiography of labour lawyer John Stanton with an account of Canadian labour history since the 1930's.
The Newsletter
Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973 Published: 1974
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Newsletter published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of indepedent leftists primarily based in Toronto, Windsor, Winnipeg, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Articles dealt with workplace issues, labour unions, workers autonomy and related topics. A total of five-and-a-half issues were published.
The Newsletter
Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973 Published: 1974
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Newsletter published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of indepedent leftists primarily based in Toronto, Windsor, Winnipeg, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Articles dealt with workplace issues, labour unions, workers autonomy and related topics. A total of five-and-a-half issues were published.
Ninety-Nine Days
The Ford Strike in Windsor, 1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
Notes from a Revolution Dying
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
In June 1922, five years on from the Russian Revolution, a group of Moscow communists gathered to discuss a letter by Vladimir Petrzhek, an auto worker, tendering his resignation from the communist (or Bolshevik) party. Petrzhek was one of the worker communists who swelled the party’s ranks during the civil war of 1918-19, when the communist “Reds” had defended the revolution from the western-supported “White” generals.
Notes from a Revolution Dying
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
In June 1922, five years on from the Russian Revolution, a group of Moscow communists gathered to discuss a letter by Vladimir Petrzhek, an auto worker, tendering his resignation from the communist (or Bolshevik) party. Petrzhek was one of the worker communists who swelled the party’s ranks during the civil war of 1918-19, when the communist “Reds” had defended the revolution from the western-supported “White” generals.
Obsolete Communism
The Left-Wing Alternative
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968 Published: 1969
An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
On the CP-USA and the Unions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Trade union officialdom, especially its top layers, not only defends the rights of the employer against those demands of the members that can't be met at a given time; it also, and at the same time, defends the gains won by previous struggles. The inability to see this duality accounts for the instability of radicals in the trade unions.
On the Labor Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
The job of socialists today, as in the past, is to help organize a rank-and-file movement within the unions that is critical of the methods of bureaucratic business unionism and promotes militancy, solidarity and union democracy. While today the main job of such a reform movement "from below" would be to educate and organize a "militant minority," rank-and-file groupings can promote an alternative vision of "class struggle unionism" and prepare for large scale struggles in the future.
On Unions and the Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969 Published: 1973
Written during the wave of workers' struggles known as the Italian hot autumn of 1969, when the autonomous struggles of the working class reached an unprecedented level, laying bare the character and function of the unions.
On Unions and the Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969 Published: 1973
Written during the wave of workers' struggles known as the Italian hot autumn of 1969, when the autonomous struggles of the working class reached an unprecedented level, laying bare the character and function of the unions.
One Big Union
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
In 1919 delegates from most union locals in western Canada met at the Western Labour Conference in Calgary and proclaimed support for the Bolshevik and other left-wing revolutions. They decided to conduct a referendum among Canadian union members on whether to secede from the American Federation of Labor and the trades and labour congress of Canada, and form a revolutionary industrial revolution to be called the One Big Union.
One Big Union
An Outline of a Possible Industrial Organization of the Working Class, with Chart
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1911
This is the first edition of a booklet that was revised and republished many times by both the I. W. W. and Daniel De Leon's "Detroit I. W. W." (later the W. I. I. U.), to which the author defected in 1913. Later editions are available on this site: 1919 and ca. 1924.
Organizing for Workers' Power!
Resource Type: Article
Allan Engler, author of Economic Democracy, critiques segments of the left for largely ignoring working class power. Recognizing that social change can only be carried through by the working class, Engler puts forth a series of demands designed to facilitate solidarity and comraderie with and among workers.
Organizing Unions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
How to form or build a union. Shows how to strength organizing drives by responding to the concerns of all workers, including women, immigrant workers, people of colour, workers with disabilities, lebians and gay men, and part-time and casual workers.
The Other Israel
The Radical Case Against Zionism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
A collective effort by a small group of Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel to penetrate the dense net of illusion and myth that dominates the thinking and feeling of most Israelis and, at the same time, determines the prevailing image of Israel in the Western world. According to the Zionist fairy tale, the state of Israel is an outpost of democracy, social justice, and enlightenment, and a homeland and haven for the persecuted Jews of the world. The reality, as this book demonstrates, is utterly different.
Pay Cheques & Picket Lines
All About Unions in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
A children's book which explains what unions are, how they came to be, and why they exist.
Pay Cheques & Picket Lines
All About Unions in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
A children's book which explains what unions are, how they came to be, and why they exist.
Peer Review and the New Teacher Unionism: Mutual Support or Policing?
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
This spring, the California state legislature passed a bill sponsored by the newly elected governor, Democrat Gray Davis, making California the first state to mandate peer review in every school district. Until then, the handful of established peer review programs scattered around the country had been the products of local teacher union and district bargaining.
A People's History of the United States
1492 - Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995 Published: 2003
Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
The Philippines under fire
New Internationalist March 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
An investigation into the political and cultural life of the Philippines, told in the form of a travelogue. The stories of ordinary people are interspersed with historical detail and analysis of the current climate.
Plunderbund and Proletariat
A History of the IWW in B.C.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
A history of working class struggle from the workers' perspective.
Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
The story of what happened in Portugal between April 25, 1974 and November 25, 1975, as seen and felt by a deeply committed participant.
Preface to Martin Glaberman's Four Essays on the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Glaberman insists that the working class is not merely a victim of capitalism. Working people are active participants in creating their own consciousness, their methods of struggle and their own history.
Preface to Martin Glaberman's Four Essays on the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Glaberman insists that the working class is not merely a victim of capitalism. Working people are active participants in creating their own consciousness, their methods of struggle and their own history.
The Press and the Class Struggle
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Early on the morning of August 19, 1997, the U.S. labor movement experienced something it had rarely known in recent years: a victory on a national scale. After two weeks out on strike, over 185,000 members of the Teamsters Union had reached a contract settlement with shipping giant United Parcel Service. It was hard to paint it as anything other than a win for the union. On almost every major issue, the Teamsters were able to force UPS to agree to their demands.
The Press and the Class Struggle
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Early on the morning of August 19, 1997, the U.S. labor movement experienced something it had rarely known in recent years: a victory on a national scale. After two weeks out on strike, over 185,000 members of the Teamsters Union had reached a contract settlement with shipping giant United Parcel Service. It was hard to paint it as anything other than a win for the union. On almost every major issue, the Teamsters were able to force UPS to agree to their demands.
The Principles of Revoltuionary Unionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1922
Adopted at the Berlin Congress of Revolutionary Unionist organizations, 1922.
Promoting your union
Six strategies to get more organizing leads and union members
Resource Type: Book
Promoting Your Union is a book to help union organizers get more organizing leads, create outreach plans to bring in new members and build the power of their unions. The ideas in this book are based on actual best practices from union organizers who are using these tactics in the field.
Promoting your union
Six strategies to get more organizing leads and union members
Resource Type: Book
Promoting Your Union is a book to help union organizers get more organizing leads, create outreach plans to bring in new members and build the power of their unions. The ideas in this book are based on actual best practices from union organizers who are using these tactics in the field.
A Proposal to American Labor
'Open source unionism' could reinvigorate American labor in the age of the Internet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
The authors posit that union membership is too restricted by the requirement that unions have majority support in the workplace. They believe that pro-union workers who are a minority in their workplace should be mobilized by the labor movement if it wants to grow.
A Proposal to American Labor
'Open source unionism' could reinvigorate American labor in the age of the Internet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
The authors posit that union membership is too restricted by the requirement that unions have majority support in the workplace. They believe that pro-union workers who are a minority in their workplace should be mobilized by the labor movement if it wants to grow.
Radical America - Volume 6, No. 3 - May - June 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Raising the Workers' Flag
The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
A history of the Workers' Unity League, the Canadian affiliate of the Communist Red International of Labour Unions.
Rank and File
Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973 Published: 1974
A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers.
Rank and File
Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973 Published: 1974
A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers.
Red and Green
The New Politics of the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
In order for green politics to work, we need to develop a total policy for the environment, a social policy which views capitalist industry as the destroyer of the world we live in.
The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975 Published: 1980
Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
Relentless Persistence
Nonviolent Action in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
A Reluctant Memoir of the '50s and '60s
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
I have been asked to write a memoir that would give a sense of the old left/new left realities of the 1950s and ‘60s. That seems quite odd to me (why would I be writing such a thing?), until I look in the mirror and see this old guy looking back at me. As I reflect, it does seem to me that I went through a lot of experience, met a lot of people, and perhaps learned from all that…So I will share some of my story.
A Reluctant Memoir of the '50s and '60s
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
I have been asked to write a memoir that would give a sense of the old left/new left realities of the 1950s and ‘60s. That seems quite odd to me (why would I be writing such a thing?), until I look in the mirror and see this old guy looking back at me. As I reflect, it does seem to me that I went through a lot of experience, met a lot of people, and perhaps learned from all that…So I will share some of my story.
Renewal through Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Strikes are a major means of trade union self-assertion. A closer look at strikes in Germany reveals interesting trends and developments, indicating new approaches to trade union strategies and practices.
A Reply to Nelson Lichtenstein: Assessing Union Leaderships
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
What is the relation of even the most liberal bureaucrats to capital (why do they inevitably downplay the fight for equality, why are they so much in favor of collaboration, corporatist approaches, in contrast to class mobilization)? It is important to carefully dissect the approaches (without sentimentality or holding back) of those groups that purported to be for class solidarity and opposed to capitalism and capitalists.
Restructuring and Resistance
Diverse voices of struggle in Western Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
The book consists of 77 individual chapters, almost all of them written by activists based on their experiences of struggle against the different aspects of capitalist globalisation. Those that aren't are chapters that give a theoretical background that links these struggles together, particularly in the opening section, 'The Europe of Capital'.
Review Essay: Reutherism Redux
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Despite stepped-up union recruitment, farm workers and poultry processors still haven't taken over the AFL-CIO. But the old guard's fear of being swamped by low-wage workers—expressed by this AFT delegate seven years ago—has materialized in other ways (even while organizing among "strawberry pickers and chicken pluckers" generally flopped).
Review Essay: Reutherism Redux
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Despite stepped-up union recruitment, farm workers and poultry processors still haven't taken over the AFL-CIO. But the old guard's fear of being swamped by low-wage workers—expressed by this AFT delegate seven years ago—has materialized in other ways (even while organizing among "strawberry pickers and chicken pluckers" generally flopped).
Revolutionary Centennial: Guyana's 1905 Rebellion
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
1905 was a landmark year in the history of Guyana, as it was for several places around the world. In Russia, the Tsar and his troops shot workers delivering a petition in St. Petersburg. In Bengal there were communal shootings; in South West Africa the German massacre of the Herero people was in full progress.
Revolutionary Centennial: Guyana's 1905 Rebellion
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
1905 was a landmark year in the history of Guyana, as it was for several places around the world. In Russia, the Tsar and his troops shot workers delivering a petition in St. Petersburg. In Bengal there were communal shootings; in South West Africa the German massacre of the Herero people was in full progress.
Revolutionary Unionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905
Speech at Chicago, November 25, 1905
Revolutionary Unionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905
Speech at Chicago, November 25, 1905
The Rise and Fall of the Toronto Typographical Union 1832 - 1972
A Case Study of Foreign Domination
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #6
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
Rosa Luxemburg
Abridged Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966 Published: 1969
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A selection of speeches and writings by Rosa Luxemburg.
Saskatchewan Federation of Labour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951 Published: 1973
Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951 Published: 1973
Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
A Short History of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party
Challenging the Two Parties of Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party was the most successful labor party in United States history. The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Association, a grouping of associated unions and farmers, provided the organic connection between labor and the party.
The Sixties
Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
The Social Passion
Religion and Social Reform in Canada 1914-28
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
An account of the movement within Canadian protestantism which sought to revive the neglected social dimensions of Christianity and to involve the church in social action.
Social Reform or Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1900 Published: 1908
Rosa Luxemburg's attack on reformism.
Socialism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 1973
Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
Socialism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 1973
Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
Soft Sell
Quality of Working Life Programs and the Productivity Race
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Quality of Working Life is a grab-bag of programs that promise workplace improvements and greater job satisfaction in exchange for increased productivity on the part of Canadian workers. But, says Don Wells, the promise of a new way to satisfy workers' needs has been proven false. Wells shows that QWL programs can present a direct, though carefully hidden, threat to the union movement.
Solidarity (Polish trade union)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980, the first non-communist party-controlled trade union in a Warsaw Pact country.
Solidarity (Polish trade union)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980, the first non-communist party-controlled trade union in a Warsaw Pact country.
Solidarnosc (Solidarity)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Polish trade union.
SORWUC - Service, Office And Retail Workers Union of Canada
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
SORWUC -- Service, Office and Retail Workers Union of Canada
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
Spanish Dock Workers Build Union Without Bureaucrats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Containerization has devastated port labor throughout the world. Spanish struggles over containerization have been unique becausea "socialist" government has spearheaded port reorganization and it has met stiff resistance from the revolutionary union of longshoremen, La Coordinadora.
Speech at the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905
I realize that I stand in the presence of those who in the past have fought, are fighting, and will continue to fight the battles of the working class economically and politically, until the capitalist class is overthrown and the working class are emancipated from all of the degrading thralldom of the ages. In this great struggle the working class are often defeated, but never vanquished.
Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
Ssangyong Motors Strike in South Korea Ends in Defeat and Heavy Repression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The hard-right Korean government is signaling with these measures -- its latest and most dramatic "take no prisoners" victory over popular protest in the past year and a half -- its intention to steamroller any potential future resistance to its unabashed rule on behalf of big capital.
The State of the World Atlas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
The State of the World Atlas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
The Statutes of Revolutionary Unionism (IWA)
Resource Type: Article
Steel Strike
Hamilton 1946
Resource Type: Book
Strategy for Labour
A Radical Proposal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964 Published: 1967
Strike!
The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972 Published: 1997
A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
Strike!
The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972 Published: 1997
A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
The Strike and Its Enemies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Like the progressive labour bureaucrats, today’s generation of young radicals have spent all of their formative years living in the era of capitalist realism — the era of There is No Alternative. And it’s perhaps for this reason that each tenet of the union bureaucrat philosophy finds its distorted mirror-image in the views of the young anti-union radicals. They tend to believe that middle-class intellectuals and full-time activists should take the lead role in strategy and that these groups do not have different material interests than rank-and-file workers. That building “communes,” rather than confronting capital, should be the movement’s main mission.
Strike Lessons from the Last Twenty-Five Years: Walking Out and Winning
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Labor's strike effectiveness and organizational strength have long been connected. Throughout history, work stoppages have been used for economic and political purposes, to alter the balance of power between labor and capital within single workplaces, entire industries, or nationwide. Strikes have won shorter hours and safer conditions, through legislation or contract negotiation.(1) They've fostered new forms of worker organization -- such as industrial unions -- that were badly needed because of corporate restructuring and the reorganization of production. Strikes have acted as incubators for class consciousness, rank-and-file leadership development, and political activism.(2) In other countries, strikers have challenged -- and changed -- governments that were dictatorial and oppressive (plus union leadership no longer accountable to the membership).
Strike Lessons from the Last Twenty-Five Years: Walking Out and Winning
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Labor's strike effectiveness and organizational strength have long been connected. Throughout history, work stoppages have been used for economic and political purposes, to alter the balance of power between labor and capital within single workplaces, entire industries, or nationwide. Strikes have won shorter hours and safer conditions, through legislation or contract negotiation.(1) They've fostered new forms of worker organization -- such as industrial unions -- that were badly needed because of corporate restructuring and the reorganization of production. Strikes have acted as incubators for class consciousness, rank-and-file leadership development, and political activism.(2) In other countries, strikers have challenged -- and changed -- governments that were dictatorial and oppressive (plus union leadership no longer accountable to the membership).
Sweat and Struggle
Working Class Struggles In Canada 1789 - 1899
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
They Are Still Killing Trade Union Leaders
Global Capital's Death Squads and Night-Riders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Question: So what happens these days in developing countries when a prominent, charismatic union activist - with the courage to stand up to sinister, government-supported business groups who have, on more than one occasion, already threatened his life - attempts to get the country’s underpaid, under-benefited workers to join a labor union? Answer: They kill him.
They Are Still Killing Trade Union Leaders
Global Capital's Death Squads and Night-Riders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Question: So what happens these days in developing countries when a prominent, charismatic union activist - with the courage to stand up to sinister, government-supported business groups who have, on more than one occasion, already threatened his life - attempts to get the country’s underpaid, under-benefited workers to join a labor union? Answer: They kill him.
Thinking Union
Activism and Education in Canada's Labour Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995 Published: 1999
Examining activism and education in Canadian labour, it's both a personal memoir and a guide to labour education. Martin explores and explains union culture, mergers and internal splits, the mechanics and dynamics of grassroots campaigns and the changes in Canadian unions over two turbulent decades.
Trade Justice! Yes, but what is it?
New Internationalist April 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
Discusses Trade justices and the effects its has had on different parts of the world. Voices the opinions of people from the around the world on the topic of trade justice.
Trade Union
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Trade Union
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The Trade Union Movement of Canada, 1827-1959
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 1968
An account of trade union evolution as a whole for the period 1827-1959, as well as an ouline of continuing sphere's of Labour's effort, such as organization of the unorganized, the fight for better conditions, legislative and political action, peace and Canadian independence.
The Trade Union Movement of Canada, 1827-1959
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 1968
An account of trade union evolution as a whole for the period 1827-1959, as well as an ouline of continuing sphere's of Labour's effort, such as organization of the unorganized, the fight for better conditions, legislative and political action, peace and Canadian independence.
Trade Unionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1936
The narrow field of trade union struggle widens into the broad field of class struggle. But now the workers themselves must change. They have to take a wider view of the world. From their trade, from their work within the factory walls, their mind must widen to encompass society as a whole. Their spirit must rise above the petty things around them. They have to face the state; they enter the realm of politics. The problems of revolution must be dealt with.
Trade Unions Bread & Roses The trade union revival
New Internationalist December 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
A look at some of the facts and issues regarding trade unions and what they have done for people in various parts of the world.
Trade Unions Bread & Roses The trade union revival
New Internationalist December 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
A look at some of the facts and issues regarding trade unions and what they have done for people in various parts of the world.
Trade Unions: International Solidarity in Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
International solidarity can be understood as cooperation between trade-union organisations that, by their nature, share the same objectives because they represent the workers of their countries. It takes on a special importance when the workers are employed by the same multinational company or in the same worldwide type of industry.
Trade Unions: International Solidarity in Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
International solidarity can be understood as cooperation between trade-union organisations that, by their nature, share the same objectives because they represent the workers of their countries. It takes on a special importance when the workers are employed by the same multinational company or in the same worldwide type of industry.
Trade Unions: The Difficult Path to Solidarity in One’s Own Interest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
In both the ideals and the rhetoric of trade unions international solidarity plays a major role. Trade union practice, however, is first and foremost focused on the context of those nation-states, in which they were able to achieve their most important victories in the 20th century. It is those achievements within the national framework which are being undermined with the help of the EU and its institutions.
A Troublemaker's Handbook
How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
A Troublemaker's Handbook
How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
25 Years After the Gdansk Uprising
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Suzi Weissman interviews David Ost. The occupation of the Gdansk shipyard by Polish workers in 1980, demanding recognition of their independent trade union Solidarnosc, rocked the Eastern bloc and inspired the world. A quarter century later, Communist rule is only a bad memory but the present realities for the Polish working class are a grim choice between neoliberalism and reactionary psedo-populism. The following interview with David Ost, conducted by Suzi Weissman November 28, 2005 for her radio program “Beneath the Surface” on KPFK in Los Angeles (90.7 FM), explores what’s happened to post-Solidarity Poland. It has been edited for publication here.
25 Years After the Gdansk Uprising
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Suzi Weissman interviews David Ost. The occupation of the Gdansk shipyard by Polish workers in 1980, demanding recognition of their independent trade union Solidarnosc, rocked the Eastern bloc and inspired the world. A quarter century later, Communist rule is only a bad memory but the present realities for the Polish working class are a grim choice between neoliberalism and reactionary psedo-populism. The following interview with David Ost, conducted by Suzi Weissman November 28, 2005 for her radio program “Beneath the Surface” on KPFK in Los Angeles (90.7 FM), explores what’s happened to post-Solidarity Poland. It has been edited for publication here.
The Two Methods of Trade-Union Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1907
To be sure, revolutions and revolutionary struggles cannot be transplanted artificially, by means of ‘good intentions’, into a country. But the examples and lessons of a neighbouring revolutionary country can at least shake the belief that treading softly is the only method of achieving bliss. And well they should.
UFCW: Strategy of Appeasement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Union Art Service
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Union Art Service
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
A Union Defeated at United Air Lines
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The April 1 certification of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) was no April Fool’s joke for the 8600 eligible mechanic and related United Airlines (UAL) employees who voted in the March 31 representational election. The Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA), which served the members for nearly five years under very difficult circumstances in the aviation industry, lost the vote by 4,113 to 2,631.
A Union Defeated at United Air Lines
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The April 1 certification of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) was no April Fool’s joke for the 8600 eligible mechanic and related United Airlines (UAL) employees who voted in the March 31 representational election. The Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA), which served the members for nearly five years under very difficult circumstances in the aviation industry, lost the vote by 4,113 to 2,631.
Union has right to be in mall
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
The Union in Academia
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Cary Nelson is a distinguished professor of English and the president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), a group that is part professional association and part union. This book is perhaps half about academic freedom and half about the AAUP, and Nelson’s struggles to have it become a less staff-dominated institution.
Union Security - UAW Statement to Ontario Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Union Woman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Union Woman
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Union Women
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Unionism and Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1907
The labor movement of modrn times is the product of past ages. It has come down to us for the impetus of our day, in pursuit of its world-wide mission of emancipation.
Unions (a film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1980
Unions Against Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Unions -- as well as employers -- stand in the way of workers' political freedom. Labour militants who become union leaders enforce industrial discipline just as Lenin and Stalin advocated. In the pamphlet's second essay, John Zerzan documents "The Revolt Against Work."
Unions Against Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Unions -- as well as employers -- stand in the way of workers' political freedom. Labour militants who become union leaders enforce industrial discipline just as Lenin and Stalin advocated. In the pamphlet's second essay, John Zerzan documents "The Revolt Against Work."
Unions and Free Trade
Solidarity vs. Competition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
This handbook details the effects of free trade on workers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It argues that solidarity, not competition, is the only long-term strategy for unions. It includes case studies of unions that are creating cross-border ties.
Unions Attack Quebec Law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Unions plan cross-border links
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Unions vs. Workers in the Seventies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
The tightly knit structures of the big industrial unions leave no room for maneuvering. There is no reasonable way in which young workers can use the union constitution to overturn and overhaul the union structure. The constitution is against them; the money and jobs available to union bureaucrats are against them. And if these fail, the forces of law and order of city, state and federal governments are against them. If that were not enough, the young workers in the factories today are expressing the instinctive knowledge that even if they gained control of the unions and reformed them completely, they would still end up with unions - organizations which owe their existence to capitalist relations of productions.
Unions with Leaders Who Stay on the Job (a.k.a. Class War Lessons)
Resource Type: Article
Stan Weir writes about direct action and on-the-job union leadership as a merchant marine in the 1940s.
Unions with Leaders Who Stay on the Job (a.k.a. Class War Lessons)
Resource Type: Article
Stan Weir writes about direct action and on-the-job union leadership as a merchant marine in the 1940s.
Us and Them
Building a just workplace community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
U.S. Labor's Subterranean Fire
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
The broad outlines of the crisis of the U.S. labor movement -— sharply declining union density, concession bargaining, failures to organize the growing non-union manufacturing and service sectors, the labor officialdom’s reliance on institutionalized labor-management cooperation schemes — are familiar to readers of Against the Current. The roots of this crisis — the dominance of bureaucratic business unionism and the weakness of rank-and file-led reform movements from below — are also well-known.
U.S. Labor's Subterranean Fire
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
The broad outlines of the crisis of the U.S. labor movement -— sharply declining union density, concession bargaining, failures to organize the growing non-union manufacturing and service sectors, the labor officialdom’s reliance on institutionalized labor-management cooperation schemes — are familiar to readers of Against the Current. The roots of this crisis — the dominance of bureaucratic business unionism and the weakness of rank-and file-led reform movements from below — are also well-known.
U.S. Strikes Drop Dramatically
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
A decade of Reaganism has left employers in a position to destroy unions without fear of significant political and public retribution.
U.S. Strikes Drop Dramatically
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
A decade of Reaganism has left employers in a position to destroy unions without fear of significant political and public retribution.
What Happened - and Didn't: Behind New York's Transit Strike
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Early on December 20, 2005, Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100, representing some 33,000 of New York City's subway and bus workers, called a strike. When dawn broke, there was no public transportation in NYC and millions of people walked, hitched rides, rode their bikes, or stayed home.
What Happened - and Didn't: Behind New York's Transit Strike
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Early on December 20, 2005, Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100, representing some 33,000 of New York City's subway and bus workers, called a strike. When dawn broke, there was no public transportation in NYC and millions of people walked, hitched rides, rode their bikes, or stayed home.
What's the Matter with Kansas?
How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Explores the rise of conservative populism in the United States through the lens of Frank's native state of Kansas. According to his analysis, the political discourse of recent decades has dramatically shifted from the class animus of traditional leftism to one in which "explosive" cultural issues, such as abortion and gay marriage, are used to redirect anger towards "liberal elites."
What’s the Matter With That Union Boss?
The Real Yes Men
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Why do the most right-wing politicians and corporate news outlets always use the term “union boss”? Because the worst thing they can think of is to say the leader of a labour organization acts like a capitalist? Or the capitalist’s lackey?
What’s the Matter With That Union Boss?
The Real Yes Men
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Why do the most right-wing politicians and corporate news outlets always use the term “union boss”? Because the worst thing they can think of is to say the leader of a labour organization acts like a capitalist? Or the capitalist’s lackey?
When the UAW Was Young
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
An interview with Erwin and Estar Baur.
When the UAW Was Young
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
An interview with Erwin and Estar Baur.
Who Advocates Spontaneity?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
Who Advocates Spontaneity?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
Who Killed Chea Vichea?
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
Chea Vichea served as president of Cambodia's garment workers' union until he was gunned down on the street in 2004. Filmed over four years, this film explores motives for Vichea's assassination and unravels a police plot that framed two men, who were sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Why Unions Matter
2nd Edition, 10th Anniversary Update
Resource Type: Book
Shows why workers need unions, how unions are formed, how they operate, how collective bargaining works, the role of unions in politics, and what unions have done to bring workers together across the divides of race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation.
Why Unions Matter
2nd Edition, 10th Anniversary Update
Resource Type: Book
Shows why workers need unions, how unions are formed, how they operate, how collective bargaining works, the role of unions in politics, and what unions have done to bring workers together across the divides of race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation.
Why Workplace “Accidents” Happen
Safety Costs Money
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Many industrial and manufacturing companies resort to almost any means (some of them not entirely legal) to dissuade employees from joining a union because besides having to offer higher wages and improved benefits (and giving employees a voice in how they’re treated by management), they are required to provide a safe work environment. Safety costs money and every company is interested in saving money.
Wobblies & Zapatistas
Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
Women And Unions - Special Issue Of Resources For Feminist Research/Documentation
Sur La Recherche Feministe. - Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Women's Trade Union League
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labour unions and eliminate sweatshop conditions.
Women's Trade Union League
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labour unions and eliminate sweatshop conditions.
Working Class Experience
Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983 Published: 1992
From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
A Working-Class Hero Is Something To Be
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
As a 35-year veteran of union activity in America, I can personally attest that Tony Mazzocchi of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers (OCAW) was a rare bird, perhaps the last of his kind.
The Working-Class Mini-Revolts of the Twenty-First Century
Low-Level Insurgencies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The start of the twenty-first century has seen a continuing decline in union membership and strikes. But it has also seen the emergence of unpredicted mini-revolts.
Year of the Strike
A Short Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A short story about a boy's money-making scheme during the year his father and other workers go on strike at the town glass factory.

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