North America

Frequently Asked Questions about Workers Solidarity Alliance

Q: What do you mean by "self-managed unions"?

A: We mean unions run by and for workers themselves the self-organization of the working class in a new kind of militant labor movement.

Q: Aren't all unions corrupt and bureaucratic?

A: When we talk about building unions, we don't mean unions like the national unions of the

Introduction to North America forum

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RIP - Studs Turkel

Studs Terkel, the ageless master of listening and speaking, a broadcaster, activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose best-selling oral histories celebrated the common people he liked to call the ''non-celebrated,'' died Friday. He was 96.

NYT Obit

onion gets the election

Quote:
As election day nears, millions of the nation's poorest voters have reportedly yet to settle on the most profound and enduring way to completely fuck themselves over when they head to the polls this year.

Shop Keeper to lead IWW?

In a further degeneration of the IWW's revolutionary unionist principles, anarchist-IWWs around the Anarcho-Syndicalist Review (ASR) and Philadelphia GMB have nominated a small shopkeeper - "WW" - to lead the IWW as it's General-Secretary Treasurer.

According to the candidate himself:

ICC Public Forum on the financial crisis - New York - Friday 14th November

Are we reliving a crash like 1929?

Location: 11th floor, 44 East 32nd Street, Manhattan. Between Park Ave and Madison Ave. Nearest Subway: 33 St - trains 4, 5, 6. From 7 to 10pm.

work for no wages at all!

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The top two executives at an Associated supermarket in Brooklyn were arrested on Wednesday on charges that they had cheated workers out of more than $300,000 and had falsified business records that they gave to state officials.

Jose de Molina musica de protesta

Here is some links to download music by the late Sonoran singer of protesta, José de Molina.

WSA Statement on the RNC Protest‏‏

In the opening days of September 2008 people from all over the country
came together in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to
protest the agenda of the Republican National Convention. And in
response, police cracked down, hard. And even before the events had
begun police responded to mere calls for protest through strong-arm

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