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Anarcho-syndicalism is a program of political organization founded on the principles of workers' self-management, direct democracy, and mutual aid. As anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists pursue the abolition of all systems of domination and exploitation - be they economic as with capitalism; political as with the state, bureaucracies, and prisons; or social as with misogyny, racism, and social oppressions; and as syndicalists, anarcho-syndicalists seek to create a society managed collectively and democratically by everyone who inhabits it. Anarcho-syndicalists believe there should be no separation between those who inhabit society and those who govern society - we assert that all those who inhabit society should govern society, cooperatively.

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ALL ANTI-FASCISTS OUT AGAINST THE RACIST RALLY IN ST. PAUL! NO PLATFORM FOR CONFEDERATE SCUM!

ALERTA ALERTA ANTI-FASCISTA!

A group calling itself “10,000 Minnesotans Strong For Southern Heritage” (lmao really?!?) has purchased a permit for a pro-Confederacy rally in St. Paul, Minnesota at the Statehouse on Saturday, September 5th. This rally must not be allowed to take place and it must be stopped by ANY MEANS NECESSARY.

This is a call out to all militant anti-fascists and like-minded militants to confront these empty headed boneheads and kick them the fuck out of our streets and the fuck out of our state. The dress code will be black. You will be able to find us when you see the black and red flags.

Stick to your story, don’t get caught, cover your face, don’t leave alone!

ANTIFA FOREVER, FOREVER ANTIFA FUCK RACISM FUCK FASCISM NO PASARAN! (///)

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A Sex Worker's Guide To Capitalism

A Sex Worker’s Guide To Capitalism By Mrs. Severity Pleasant, Providence IU 690 So, we live under an economic system called capitalism, which you probably knew already, but what exactly is capitali…

Severity knows what’s up

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Sex Workers Union // Providence IU690

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We are an organizing effort of the Providence IWW. We support sex workers regardless of the legal status of their work. We believe in creating an empowering community for sex workers to meet their needs. If you are doing sex work, want more information, or want to talk to an organizer, contact us.

Phone: [phone] Email: [email protected]

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Your Fancy Whole Foods Cheese May Be Made From Dairy Milked by Prisoners

In Colorado, inmates are working as farmhands, providing the milk that becomes high-end goat cheese, on sale at stores across the country.

I remember during orientation, a big thing they basically said was they advertise all their products as natural from ethical sources, but the store educator also said they don't actually check to see if the companies they buy from are ethical, they just sort of assume. The way she put it was they "place a lot of trust" in the suppliers. Well, then there's this... I guess it's John Mackey's free market policies at work.

- a radical whole foods worker

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Here Are Some Reasons Whole Foods Workers Might Want a Union

Whole Foods, a company that has lately been beloved by yuppies, the middle class, and Wall Street alike, is facing demands for a union. But Whole Foods hates unions! How much? An insider tells us more.

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Whole Foods workers with the Industrial Workers of the World conducted a work stoppage and picket yesterday in San Francisco. A delegation of 20 cashiers, stockers, and cooks at Whole Foods Market initiated a temporary work stoppage to deliver a petition to Whole Foods management demanding a $5 an hour wage increase for all employees and no retaliation against workers for organizing a union.

Over 50 workers from the 4th Street store signed the petition. In addition to demanding the $5 per hour wage increase, the petition raises issues about paid time off, hours and scheduling, safety and health, and a retirement plan.

Whole Foods workers have demanded a response from Whole Foods by November 14, when their next paychecks are due. If management fails to respond, workers will begin taking job actions.

Whole Foods is a multinational chain with over 400 stores in the US, Canada and Great Britain, with $13 billion in annual sales, and 80,000 employees. Prices are high, which is why Whole Foods is colloquially known as Whole Paycheck.

Beneath Whole Foods’ glossy image of social responsibility, “working conditions at Whole Foods reflect the low industry standards that dominate all food and retail industries,” according to the workers’ website wfmunite.com. Despite the company’s claims to the contrary, "low wages, constant understaffing, [and] inconsistent schedules" are rampant company-wide. Just recently CEO John Mackey announced that the company would be phasing out full-time positions for new hires. Meanwhile, workers say the company has forced them to shoulder more and more of the costs of their limited health benefits.

Whole Foods currently has over 100 stores in development. Case Garver, a buyer in the Prepared Foods department, has seen enough of the doublespeak. “It seems like every 6 months they open up a brand new store,” he stated, “while at the same time my manager turns around and says the company doesn’t have enough money to give us 40 hours a week. We’re tired of doing more with less.”

Azalia Martinez, a cashier at the store, relates that in addition to working full time for Whole Foods, going to school and fulfilling family obligations, she must take additional side jobs to make ends meet. “It's extremely hard,” she says.

Despite the hardships, workers at the store know that they can win better wages by standing together. “History proves that workers have the power to make change when we come together to fight for our interests. We are re-igniting a workers’ movement where we have power: on the job. [...] This is our movement, we are capable of victory, and we are worth it.”

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If you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement—the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil and live in want and misery—the wage slaves—expect salvation—if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out. The ground is on fire upon which you stand.

August Spies during his trial for his alleged role in the Haymarket massacre (via wobblydash)

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We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a while. For you must not forget that we can also build. It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing in this minute.

-Buenaventura Durruti

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On this day in Chicago, Illinois in 1905, the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World began. Numerous labor heavyweights attended, including William “Big Bill” Haywood, Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, Lucy Eldine Gonzalez Parsons, Eugene Victor Debs, Daniel De Leon, and hundreds of rank and file members of what would become known as “The Wobblies.” [x378436]

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Hello, and welcome to the official IWW Chicago GMB Tumblr page!

The Social Media Committee is excited to announce that this page is live as of today, Friday the 13th, 2014.

We hope you’ll check our page regularly for exciting news regarding the Chicago IWW, actions, and events, as well as union-wide news, updates about specific campaigns, and workplace organizing tips.

If you are unfamiliar with the IWW, please check our “About the IWW” section to learn more.

Feel free to ask us any questions you may have  we look forward to chatting with you in the future!

(And a special Friday the 13th welcome from Sabo-Tabby - you can learn all about our loveable black cat mascot right here: http://www.iww.org/history/icons/black_cat) 

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This, dear friends, is capitalism in a nutshell.

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Help Black Rose Press Open Up Shop

Summary

Black Rose Press is opening a screen printing shop/storefront in South Minneapolis. Please help us make this project a success.

We are a worker-owned, cooperative print shop, as well as an IWW union shop. The building was purchased this winter, and since then we have been working with the city, architects, and contractors to get ready for a big summer of renovations.

The building will serve as our printing studio, with multiple presses and various pre-press processes. The front room will also have space for retail. The building also has a seperate unit that will be rented out to generate income for the cooperative.

Our hope is to see this sturdy, yet neglected building become a permanent space for a cooperative business, specifically our small union print shop.

blackrosepress.org

What We Need

We are looking for a little extra help to finish the renovations. Any support you can give us goes a long way.

Please help this IWW print shop get its feet off the ground and help them get started!

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So I'm taking intro to sociology, intro to human sexuality, and american government next semester. Any suggestions on anarchist and or marxist authors who can give me insight into these topics? Thanks

Sociology: In 1880 Marx wrote a piece called "A Workers Inquiry" which has been used as a model for radical sociology.  There's a reader about it here.  The work of the Frankfurt School & critical theory would likely also be of interest.

Human sexuality: Foucault's History of Sexuality, volume one.

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“Discussing the activities and role of the Anarchists in the Revolution, Kropotkin said: ‘We Anarchists have talked much of revolutions, but few of us have been prepared for the actual work ,to be done during, the process. I have indicated some things in this relation in my Conquest of Bread. Pouget and Pataud have also sketched a line of action in their work on Syndicalism and the Co-operative Commonwealth.

Kropotkin thought that the Anarchists had not given sufficient to the fundamental elements of the social revolution. The real facts in a revolutionary process do not consist so much in actual fighting — that is, merely the destructive phase necessary to clear the way for constructive effort. The basic factor in a revolution is the organisation of the economic life of the country. The Russian Revolution had proved conclusively that we must prepare thoroughly for that. Everything else is of minor importance. He had come to think that, Syndicalism was likely to furnish what Russia most lacked: the channel through which the industrial and economic reconctruction of the country may flow. He referred to Anarcho-Syndicalism. That and the co-operatives would save other countries some of the blunders and suffering Russia was going though.”

-Emma Goldman, ‘My Disillusionment in Russia’, on a visit to Peter Kropotkin at Dimitrov, July 1920.

Currently reading this right now, it’s sooooo good.

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Anarchist-communism has been regarded by other anarchist currents as a poor and despised relation, an ideological trophy to be exhibited according to the needs of hagiography or polemic before moving on to “serious things” (the collectivisations of Spain, anarcho-syndicalism, federalism or self-management), and as an “infantile utopia” more concerned with dogmatic abstractions than with “economic realities”. Yet, anarchist communism has been the only current within the anarchist movement that has explicitly aimed not only at ending exchange value but, among its most coherent partisans, at making this the immediate content of the revolutionary process. We are speaking here, of course, only of the current that explicitly described itself as “anarchist-communist”, whereas in fact the tendency in the nineteenth century to draw up a stateless communism “utopia” extended beyond anarchism properly so-called.

Anarchist-communism must be distinguished from collectivism, which was both a diffuse movement (see, for example, the different components of the International Working Men’s Association, the Guesdists, and so on) and a specific anarchist current. As far as the latter was concerned, it was Proudhon who supplied its theoretical features: an open opponent of communism (which, for him, was Etienne Cabet’s “communism”), he favoured instead a society in which exchange value would flourish — a society in which workers would be directly and mutually linked to each other by money and the market. The Proudhonist collectivists of the 1860’s and 1870’s (of whom Bakunin was one), who were resolute partisans of the collective ownership of the instruments of work and, unlike Proudhon, of land, maintained an essence of this commercial structure in the form of groups of producers, organised either on a territorial basis (communes) or on an enterprise basis (co-operatives, craft groupings) and linked to each other by the circulation of value. Collectivism was thus defined — and still is — as an exchange economy where the legal ownership of the instruments of production is held by a network of “collectivities” which are sorts of workers’ jointstock companies. Most contemporary anarchists (standing, as they do, for a self-managed exchange economy) are collectivists in this nineteenth-century sense of the term, even though the term has now come to have a somewhat different meaning (state ownership, i.e. “state capitalism”, rather than ownership by any collectivity).

In the 1870’s and the 1880’s the anarchist-communists, who wanted to abolish exchange value in all it’s forms, broke with the collectivists, and in so doing revived the tradition of radical communism that had existed in France in the 1840’s.

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We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

Buenaventura Durruti

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May Day 2014 - Scenes From the Class War (A)///(E) Fuck the police