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Organizing


โ€œAn Injury to One is an Injury to Allโ€ A Minneapolis Bus Driver on Solidarity with Minneapolis Protestersย 

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Adam is a bus driver in Minneapolis and a member of ATU Local 1005 and Socialist Alternative MN. In the midst of the ongoing protests in Minneapolis, he made the decision to refuse police officersโ€™ request ...

Southern Solidarity: Mutual Aid in New Orleans Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

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Recently we had a chance to talk with Jasmine from Southern Solidarity, a mutual aid collective distributing food and supplies to the unhoused people of New Orleans. The COVID-19 death rate in the crescent city is ...

Stick-up on Rikers Island

David Campbell

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It started with the phones. A few minutes before 9:30 on Saturday morning, mid-conversation with wives, children, friends, and lawyers, the lines all went dead. This was March 22nd. Visits had been suspended a week prior, ...

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Agenda for a New Generation

JF

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The COVID-19 crisis is the most calamitous global event any living person can recall. Millions of cases worldwide have claimed over 150,000 lives as epidemiologists predict far more mayhem before the virus is under control. The ...

On Organizing the Grunts: COVID-19, the Sailors and Some Other World History

Mike Morgan

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I donโ€™t mean to sound old school here.ย  When General Giap, a commander of the Vietnam Peoplesโ€™ Army, wrote in his memoir about the conditions that allowed a victory over the almighty US armed forces in ...

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โ€œYouโ€™re Not Gonna Use This as a Way to Fuck Us Overโ€: A Discussion with Luis Brennan from Burgerville Workers Union

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HC: Tell us what you do for work.ย  Iโ€™m a fast food worker. I work mostly the grill at a fast food place at the Portland Airport–a company called Burgerville. I also do a shit ton ...

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Interview with Matt Peterson of Woodbine

John Garvey

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ย  ย  ย What is Woodbine? Woodbine is a common, autonomous, experimental space in Ridgewood, Queens, opened up by a group of friends in the beginning of 2014. The idea behind it was to open up an ...

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Self-organized Yellow Vest Protest Movement Exposes Inequality and Hollowness of French Regime

Richard Greeman

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Ignored by Macron, distorted by the media, courted by the Right, snubbed by the Left, the self-organized mass movement known as the Yellow Vests is seriously challenging the political and economic order in France. In Paris, ...

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The future of labor unions

Noel Ignatiev

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Heard on the radio this morning: Gus Atsas, newly-elected president of United Steelworkers Local 1014, which has about 2,020 members at U.S. Steel Gary Works (which once employed 27,000 people and where your correspondent had the ...

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Black Panthers

The Ex-Panther

Curtis Price

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When I lived in Baltimore and went to events sponsored by the anarchist bookstore, often Iโ€™d notice the presence of one or two ex-Panthers, stray corks bobbing in an ocean of youthful whiteness. They stayed to ...