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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
Hey all,
We've set this up in discussion with some of you from your side of the Atlantic, so we hope you enjoy it here, and tell all your friends!
If your group would like a forum please contact us here: www.libcom.org/contact
Enjoy!
John
libcom.org
another infiltrator
A prominent activist in Austin, Texas named Brandon Darby has revealed he worked as an FBI informant in the eighteen months leading up to the Republican National Convention. Darby has admitted to wearing recording devices at planning meetings and wearing a transmitter embedded in his belt during the convention.
Almost new years greetings
Dear comrades
The Workers Solidarity Alliance (W.S.A.) sends you our year end greetings.
Looking forward to cooperation and comradeship in the year to come.
Yours for a new world!
In solidarity,
W.S.A.
Workers Solidarity Alliance: 339 Lafayette Street-Room 202 New York, NY 10012 www.workersolidarity.org
Ontario anarchist discussion forum created!
Hi all, hope you don't mind me posting this announcement up here, if anyone reading is from Ontario drop by and say hello.
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Ontario anarchist discussion forum created!
In conjunction with Common Cause, the popular international anarchist
discussion forum anarchistblackcat.org has now added a forum specific
Blast from the past
I've transcribed a couple of articles which comrades may find of interest. These poorly written articles appeared in Black Flag of Anarchism: an Anarcho-Syndicalist Newsletter in 1977 and 1978 and were ghost written by myself.
Statement from the Bronx Anarcho-Communist Alliance
PROPOSAL FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE CONSULATE
Brothers and Sisters,
Demise of the De Leonist SLP?
While I do not know this as a fact, it appears (appears) to me that the De Leonist SLP has run its course. After more than 100 years it appears they have stopped publishing The People and, perhaps, other public activities.
NYC:Class-struggle anarchist perspectives on the economic crisis
Forum and open discussion: Class-struggle anarchist perspectives on the economic crisis, the election and the way forward.
Speakers: Wayne P. of Open City Collective/NY Area Union of Northeastern Federation of Anarchist Communists (NEFAC) and Steve R. of NY-NJ Area Group, Workers Solidarity Alliance (WSA)
[b]Tuesday, December 9—7:30 p.m.
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.
onion gets the election
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!
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
ICC Public Forum on the Obama/McCain circus - New York - Friday 12th September
The ICC are holding a public meeting in NYC...
Subject: The revolutionary Marxist perspective on the Obama/McCain circus
Date: Friday September 12th, 7pm - 10pm
Location: 11th floor, 44 East 32nd Street, Manhattan. Between Park Ave and Madison Ave. Nearest Subway: 33 St - trains 4, 5, 6.
RNC: Red & Black Anti-Capitalist activities
Please find the updated information from our friends and comrades in Minneapolis. Join the WSA, IWW, NEFAC and others in the planned events and march.
Please send donations to help defray costs.
All out!
Yours in solidarity,
Workers Solidarity Alliance (WSA)
Fellow Workers, Comrades, friends,
