The New Tendency Newsletter

The Newsletter (New Tendency)
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‘The Newsletter’ was published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of independent 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. Copies of the newsletters are available in the Connexions Archive and online on the Connexions website.

Issue No. PDF Link	Date	Author

Issue #1

[April 1973]

No. 1

Content	Title	Author
	Towards a Newsletter	-
	Response from Winnipeg	-
	Dear Newsletter	Colleen Paquette, Steering Committee, Labour Centre, Windsor
	Why a Newsletter	-

Issue #2

1973

No. 2

Content	Title	Author
	Introduction	The Editors
	White Collars Blues	W.B.
	The Winter of our Discontent, or, Experiences Organizing Nursing Homes	Betty Burcher and Lissa Donner
	Organizing Notes	-
	Refusal of Wage Labour and the Bourgeois Response	Dave Feickert
	Notes on Worker's [sic] Autonomy	John
	A Working Paper for Women in Canada	W.P.
	Big Flame on Organization	-
	Correspondence	Mike Begley, Edmonton; Ron Baxter, Windsor

Issue #3

April 1974

No. 3

Content	Title	Author
	Introduction	The Editors
	Elements for a Political Perspective	Judy and Peter
	Leadership, Collective Practise & The New Tendency	Wally Dougherty and Suzy VanDerLoop, Winnipeg
	In Struggle Against The Capitalist School	Windsor Student Working Group
	Women, Union & Workplace Struggles	Frances Gregory
	Workers' Struggles in Advanced Capitalism: The Post Office	-
	Again On The Refusal of Wage Labour	Norman
	Organizing Notes	-
	Correspondence	Ron, Windsor, Ontario and Philadelphia Solidarity, Pennsylvania

Issue #4

April 1974

No. 4

Content	Title	Author
	Anatomy of a Militants' Group	Ron and Bron
	The Chrysler Non-Strike, 1973	Stuart Ryan
	General Report Motor Plant Windsor	-
	What Are We Doing At Ford?	-
	Intervention At Ford Oakville	Lissa Donner and David Kidd
	Trouble on the Line	reprinted from Canadian Dimension, Vol. 9, No. 7 & 8
	And We All Knew What It Meant	-
	Up Against the State	-
	A Marxist Definition of Productive Labour	Mark McLister
	Correspondence	Ron, Windsor, Ontario

Issue #5

Summer 1974

No. 5

Content	Title	Author
	Introduction	The Editors
	Readership Survey	Randy Dryburgh, Toronto, for the Editorial Committee
	Struggle in the Boondocks	Dave Maidman
	A Typewriter is Not a Punch Press, But . . .	W.B.
	The April Postal Strike, Workers, Union and the State	-
	Correspondence	Jim Brophy, Windsor

Issue #6

March 1975

No. 6

Content	Title	Author
	Introduction	The Editors
	Statement on the Dissolution of the New Tendency	Struggle Against Work Collective (John Ford, Tim Grant, John Huot, David Kidd, Bruno Ramirez, Peter Taylor)
	Collective Response to Proposal for Newsletter # 6	Ron Baxter, Windsor