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Gratuities increasingly shape our lives as workers and customers. Is that what we want?

The future of tipping should be defined by Canadians, not businesses seeking to shift responsibility for worker compensation onto consumers.

“Solidaridad Obrera” (Workers’ Solidarity), founded in Barcelona in 1907, is the voice of Spain’s Anarcho-syndicalist Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (CNT: National Confederation of Labour). The following essays were issued to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of “Soli” and together they illustrate the changing fortunes of the Anarcho-syndicalist movement, and its enduring attempt to communicate the anarchist idea. Translated by Paul Sharkey.

Murray Bookchin's history of the "tragic week": a spontaneous workers' uprising in Catalonia, Spain, which was isolated and crushed by the government, leaving hundreds dead.

Supermarket pulls product, Italian supplier to stop using Xinjiang tomatoes after Marketplace investigation

Collected essays by Murray Bookchin on the Spanish Revolution.

A short history of the Spanish civil war and revolution which broke out in response to the right-wing and fascist coup attempt of General Franco.

This was the first book in English that is devoted to the experiments in workers’ self-management, both urban and rural, which constituted one of the most remarkable social revolutions in modern history. Libertarian communism was truly the creation of workers and peasants—a “spontaneous” creation, for which the groundwork had been laid by decades of struggle and education, experiment and thought.

Repeal Bangladesh Digital Security Act – demands Amnesty Bangladeshi authorities must end the crackdown on right to freedom of expression online and urgently repeal or amend the draconian Digital Security Act (DSA), Amnesty International said in a new briefing released on Monday. Introduced in October 2018, the DSA – a law that contains overbroad and vague provisions granting authorities extensive powers – is increasingly being used to stifle dissent online, with punishments that can ext...

Thousands of workers in garment supply chains in Asia protest over dismissals "International Fashion Houses Are Leaving Millions of Asians Jobless. The Workers Are Now Protesting", 29 June 2020 ...In Karnataka, over a thousand garment workers are now protesting outside [ECC-2 factory]... They call the layoffs “illegal” because they didn’t get a notice, and they aren’t sure if they will be paid for the days they worked... [H&M said] “The supplier [in Karnataka] wants t...