Stan Weir News Today

I have a lot of people to thank. I would like to thank rosemary. I would like to thank mark and his wife were driving alice and myself down here. I would like to thank [applause] a serious mistake. I i would like to thank the letter carrier. When. When i was a little boy my parents gave me a book called they carried the mail. I only remember one sentence neither neither snow, nor sleet, nor rain, nor dark of night shall save these careers from the swift completion of their appointed routes which...

Kim Moody reviews John Womack Jr.'s book "Labor Power and Strategy" and responses to his contributions, focused on the significance of workers' positional power in labor struggles.

Randy Keeney PLAINFIELD — Elinor Sue Randall died on July 8, 2023 after a long struggle with dementia. Randy (as she was always known) was born in Norwalk CT on

Accomplished artist created a community of friends, abundant gardens and a menagerie of animals

Abolish Restaurants is a beautifully illustrated guide to the daily misery, stress, boredom, and alienation of restaurant work, as well as the ways in which restaurant workers fight against it.

In the summer of 2011 Canadian government legislation ordered Canadian postal workers back to work after an intense Canada-wide strike. The struggle continues after the end of the official strike, and, as this article shows, the struggle started before the official strike began. The militancy and creativity of the Canadian postal workers offer lessons well beyond their industry.

An article by Staughton Lynd about the militant unionism of the 1930s.

An article by Stan Weir surveying the effects World War II and the post-war years had on CIO unions and the American working class.

A discussion paper by the Wobblyist Writing Group.

Some work stories from Stan Weir, a socialist who worked a variety of manual labor jobs during the 1950s-1970s.