Kim Kelly: General Strikes, Explained
The word strike seems to be on everyone’s lips these days. Workers across the world have been striking to protest poor working conditions, to speak out against sexual harassment, and to jumpstart stalled union negotiations. And as we just saw with the Los Angeles teachers’ successful large-scale strike, which spanned six school days, strikers have […]
Southside Pride (MN), “THE DISH: Dining out at the co-op”
The Cafe is one of the few pioneering venues in the Twin Cities for this idea that dates back at least to anarcho-syndicalist pre-Civil War (Spanish, that is) Barcelona. Servers, like all staff, are paid a living wage and the prices include the cost of service, not as a “service fee” but as part of […]
The New York Times, “The Majestic Marble Quarries of Northern Italy”
Over the centuries, the strange geology of the marble mountains has produced an equally strange human community — strange even by the standards of Italy’s fractious regional subcultures. The people there live in white towns, breathing white dust, speaking their own dialects, nursing their own politics. There is a proud history, in and around Carrara, […]
The Buffalo News, “A granddaughter’s portrayal of Dorothy Day”
Get ready now for a few paragraphs that detail the complication that describes Dorothy’s life over the next ten years. In 1917, atheism, anarchism, socialism, vegetarianism, women’s rights, free love, free speech, free thought – all were in the air in New York City’s Greenwich Village, our author writes. Continue Reading
Golden Gate Xpress, “Labor archives exhibit closes with a message for current times”
The name of the exhibit was taken from an entry in The Blast, an anarchist newspaper of the time, which criticized those who wanted the U.S. to enter World War I. Continue Reading
Vice, “What It’s Like to Work for Less Than the Minimum Wage”
I’m conscious that I wouldn’t normally be awake for another couple of hours, but I feel grateful to have seen the online advert for this job. I start talking to a Belgian guy called Phillipe who introduces me to a few of the other workers. I get to know most of the early starters fairly […]
Tablet, “Cuban Solidarity and the Death of the Tyrant”
It is also true that, in Cuba, other people resisted the Batista dictatorship relentlessly and at every moment, and forever did their best to uphold a higher ideal for Cuban society, and had some achievements, too. I offer a factional example from the Cuban labor movement. The workers’ movement arose in Cuba in the later […]