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Spain: Anarchists assemble picket lines for IKEA dispute
From Freedom News UK
The Madrid section of Spain’s long-running CNT-AIT anarchist union is taking on the famous furniture maker in an effort to force bosses to fold in a dispute at one of its suppliers. In the below statement, organisers explain the situation and call on trade unionists to act in support.
TotW: Anarchism at the work place
Seize the Hospitals! …But How?
From Black Rose Anarchist Federation By Healthcare Worker Members of BRRN Labor Committee
In May of 2023 several Black Rose / Rosa Negra (BRRN) Militants organizing in the healthcare sector attended the Health Autonomy Convergence (HAC) in Durham, North Carolina. This is their collective reflection on and analysis of the event and of the prospects for radical labor organizing in healthcare more generally.
ASR 86 (Spring 2023)
From Anarcho-Syndicalist Review
ASR 86 is, at long last, at the printer. Copies should begin arriving next week. This issue explores the opportunities facing the labor movement and the dangers of squandering them if U.S. unions continue down the same path that has led to 19th century unionization rates, examines the role of general strikes, looks at the dangers both to the earth and to workers in Tar Sand exploitation, and reviews recent books on American autocracy, women in the Mexican revolution, Stalinism in the United States, and the demand that we become passionate about our work.
Flickers of a Resurgent Labor Movement
From Black Rose Anarchist Federation by Black Rose / Rosa Negra Labor Committee
Our Report from Labor Notes ’22
At the forefront of Korean anarcho-syndicalism in 2022
From Libcom.org
Continuing the protest last week, we headed back to Geoje once more. Although there were ups and downs, in the end, on July 2nd, the workers in Yeongnam workers protest decided to head to the direction of the subcontracted workers of Daewoo Shipbuilding(DSME) in Geoje in solidarity. Before heading to Geoje, on Thursday, June 30, after taking part on the Sejong Hotel Thursday rally in solidarity, we took on our turn of the sit-down, and then immediately on July 1, along with the fired workers of the Sejong Hotel, we marched on foot to Yongsan. The asphalt already looked as if they were pumping steam.
You ask about implementing anarchism in real world projects?
From The Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation
The aim of anarchism is revolution, but we understand this revolution in a two-fold sense: Negatively speaking, what we are against is capitalism and the state. Positively, what we are for is the extension of democracy (direct, participatory democracy) to every institution of society.
Kill The God of Work & All His Clergy
From: https://raddle.me/wiki/anti-work
I'd say one of the most impactful components of anarchy through the ages, and especially in this current decade is anti-work - the idea of completely rejecting the notion of work. Though as old as civilization itself, anti-work ideas have been steadily regaining momentum in modern times, starting in small anarchist circles, and now taking off explosively in mainstream culture. Millions of people around the world have suddenly found themselves exposed to this very anarchist concept.
A Stripper's Memoir
From From Embers
This episode features an interview with Cid V. Brunet about their recent memoir "This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir. We talk about stripping, sex work, anarchist community, sex, gender and much more.
Hate is Not Enough – The Passing of a Class Warrior
Alan Pullin (6 February 1949 – 23 April 2021)
An obituary for an old friend from Bristol who recently passed away.
from: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1245504382535956&id=10...
35 years of the Anarchist Federation
From Organise Magazine
reflections on 1986 and now
It’s 35 years since the AF was first formed as the Anarchist Communist Federation in 1986. We’ve published retrospectives on several occasions before in the 10, 20, 25 and 30 year specials of Organise! This time we look back at what was happening in and around 1986 and its relationship to the emergence of the new anarchist organisations.
Interview with the team behind antijob.net
From Anarchistische Groep Amsterdam
"We have to work most of our lives. Our efforts, time, ideas, successes and failures are compressed into rubles, dollars and euros – impersonal banknotes, which are constantly lacking to fulfill our desires and needs. Typically, work is fraught with wage delays, employers’ machinations, nervousness and humiliation from idiotic rules and bosses fooling around."
That’s how antijob.net, the most successful anarchist project from Russia, starts it’s manifest. It’s a website where workers can leave a review on their (ex-)bosses, helping each other in finding the job that sucks less. AGA took an interview with the team behind it.
Announcing Anarcho-Syndicalist Review #81 + editorial
Announcing Anarcho-Syndicalist Review #81 release + editorial (Death Squad America by Jon Bekken)
https://syndicalist.us/
An anarchist & trade-unionist critique of education
From Freedom News UK by Mohamed Khougali
This essay is an attempt to further elucidate and elaborate on a previous article written about the British Eurocentric education curriculum. In the instigating article, I write about the usurpation of history through academic revival and conserving a certain historic and narrative arc. I go on to talk about the purposeful deification of white accomplishment and what that means to the students. I suggest four chief concerns that come out of this practice of historic ‘cleansing’? “(1) whitewashing, (2) loss of history, and intellectual ignorance, (3) frozen time, consequently moulding of identity, and (4) intellectual privilege”.