Category: Federation
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Audio Bakunin: Revolutions Podcast on Mikhail Bakunin
One of the key early figures of anarchism, Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin, is brought to life in two detailed and well researched episodes of Mike Duncan’s Revolutions Podcast. The series focuses on great revolutions of the modern era including the French, Haitian, American and Mexican revolutions, with the current focus on the Russian Revolution of…
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Audio for the Revolution: Podcasts with Black Rose/Rosa Negra
Podcasting has quickly taken on the role for the left that the pamphlet or personal blogs that were popular in the late 2000s and early 2010s. It’s where many turn for discussions on the important issues of the day. Podcasts also fit into our lives as many listen along while at work, commuting or doing…
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When and Why Did Unions Start Signing Contracts?
This piece from the Organizing Work blog explores an important but often little discussed question of the historical origins of labor contracts in the U.S. The current dominant model of formal collective bargaining agreements which include provisions against striking and job actions, also known as “workplace contractualism,” has not always been the dominant model. The…
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Grow Our Roots: Meet Our Comrades Traveling To South America
As part of our “Grow Our Roots” fundraiser to support our international and media work, we wanted to introduce you to two of our comrades headed to South American this summer. They will be participating in our “militant exchange” and various international meetings with our sister organizations in Chile and Argentina. We are more than…
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Green Power: Strong Movements to Face the Climate Crisis
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Speaking on climate crisis and social movements is Seattle, WA based Black Rose/Rosa Negra member Arthur Pye. Providing a survey of the depth of the crisis and various responses, above all Pye stresses that ultimately building popular power outside of the constrains of institutional forces is what will push the dramatic…
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Will Bernie’s Proposals Build Worker Power? Interview With a Swedish Labor Activist
Presidential candidate and open socialist Bernie Sanders announced this week that his campaign is preparing a proposal to encourage employee ownership in large companies. While details are yet to be released, what has been reported so far is the plan would have employers “contribute a portion of their stocks to a fund controlled by employees”…
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Un movimiento feminista para acabar con el capitalismo: el auge del feminismo multisectorial en Chile
La primera de una serie de dos partes sobre el feminismo anticapitalista en Sudamérica y con una riqueza de conceptos y análisis de los que podemos aprender en EE.UU
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Means and Ends: The Anarchist Critique of Seizing State Power
We are excited to publish contemporary thinkers and writers on libertarian socialist and anarchist thought such as Zoe Baker, please consider a patreon contribution to support their work. -Editor Watch or listen to a YouTube version of this article by Zoe Baker. Click here or scroll to the bottom of this article. By Zoe Baker…
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Red State Revolt: An Essential But Flawed Story of the Teacher Rebellion
Review of Red State Revolt, The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics by Eric Blanc on Verso Books, 2019. By Michael Mochaidean Last year’s wave of public teacher strikes and walkouts was the highest number of workers walking off the job in three decades. Whether it will be the start of a larger trend across…