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Today's Water Cooler

The final section of chapter 8 of "Storming Heaven". On the influence of the Industrial Workers of the World.

At the same time as the far Right Freedom Convoy was organizing and then carrying out its occupations across Canada, other mobilizations of rank-and-file truckers were also taking place which targeted specific companies and making and winning demands that directly benefited truckers. These trucker mobilizations were organized by South Asian truckers (predominantly Punjabi) and they pose compelling models for rank-and-file organizing, and community solidarity, and real working class answers to t...

Nick Southall's detailed history and analysis of the Wollongong Out of Workers' Union in Australia from 1983-1989, an organisation of unemployed workers he took part in which fought for better benefits and also assisted the struggles of employed workers.

Distorted by the bourgeois press, reduced to a mere 'race riot' by many on the left, the L.A. rebellion was the most serious urban uprising this century. This article seeks to grasp the full significance of these events by relating them to their context of class re-composition and capitalist restructuring.

A discussion paper by the Wobblyist Writing Group.

A short review by Lou Rinaldi of Capital, which he advocates for Wobblies and the like-minded to read.

Gigi Roggero on the Italian operaismo and the movements of the 60s and 70s.

This article will be released in full online June 7, 2021. In order to understand what is happening in the United States, in the aftermath of the presidential…