- Another Expansion at Pearson for Machinists!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Machinists continue to add to their membership at Pearson Airport with the addition of 90 security workers known as Ambassadors who assist passengers in the customs and security scrrening areas of the airport
- ATS Ratifies First Agreement with Machinists!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
First collective agreement for 65 ramp and aircraft grooming workers at Calgary International Airport.
- The Battle to Unionize Starbucks in Chile: an Interview with Andrés Giordano Salazar
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
After six years of intense battles, two strikes, a hunger strike, and four legal sentences for anti-union activities, Starbucks reluctantly agreed to sign a collective agreement with unionized workers in Chile in May 2015. This was a huge concession for the world’s largest coffee shop chain that has long aggressively fought off unionization efforts among its 150,000 workers in 64 countries.
- Beating Back the Corporate Attack
Socialism and the struggle for global justice
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Our movement is calling for a new direction -- for democratic control of our political life, and for democratic control over the most important aspects of the economy. Why should handful of the super-rich run the planet, and, moreover, run it into the ground?
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Canadian Union of Public Employees
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers, and the Question of Unions in Contemporary Capitalism
Review of Frank Bardacke, Trampling Out The Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Bardacke tells the story of one movement’s evolution from grassroots obscurity to such (relatively little-known) successes as the Salinas Valley (California) general strike of lettuce pickers in 1979—a veritable mass strike in Rosa Luxemburg’s sense—and from there to the collapsed shell of a union nonetheless administering fourteen non-profits with millions in assets.
- The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor
Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
Steve Early explains why and how the 2008-2010 battles within the progressive wing of the U.S. labour movement occurred.
- Community Organising - A New Part of the Union
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A look at Unite’s community union organizing.
- Confederation of Canadian Unions
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Annual 1994
A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1994
Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
- Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
- Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
- Continental Service Agents Join Machinists!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Continental Airlines Service Agents at Toronto's Pearson Airport wanted the protection and better wages afforded by union membership so they turned to the largest union in air transport in North America - the IAMAW.
- Cooperation at Work
The Mondragon Experience
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
A guide to work co-operatives, based on the experience of the Mondragon group of co-operatives in Spain.
- Cracking the Canadian Formula
The Making of the Energy and Chemical Workers Union
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Fast food rights: organising the unorganised
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The experience from the examples of organising the unorganised both in the US and UK demonstrate that it is possible to develop union organisation; significant examples are discussed in this article, particularly in a British context.
- For Workers' Climate Action
Climate Change and Working-Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A new collection of articles and reviews on the fight against dangerous climate change, capitalism and workers' organisation and struggle. Urges the left to reach out to climate activists to make the case that being "anti-capitalist" is important but not enough.
- Getting Organized
Building A Union
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
Comprehensive guide to the process of unionization and certification.
See also: CX2072.
- Martin and Jessie Glaberman Collection
Papers, 1939-2001
Resource Type: Unclassified
The papers of the Marxist radicals Martin Glaberman and Jessie Glaberman, now housed at Wayne State University.
- The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike Against G.M. 1936-37
How Industrial Unionism was Won
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1967
A history of the Flint strike (1936-1937).
- Guide to taking strike action
Tips and advice on how to effectively organise and carry out strike action at your workplace.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
Our labour is the ultimate weapon that workers possess. Without workers bosses cannot make a profit. Strike action can be very powerful, but at the same time it, at the very least, reduces take home pay. More worryingly it may also lead to dismissal. Hardly, surprising therefore, that strike action is usually last resort taken of workers.
- Having the Hard Conversations
Jane McAlevey on Fight for 15, labour's crisis of strategy, and the difference between organizing and mobilizing
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
An interview with labour organizer Jane McAlevey on labour's crisis of strategy and the difference between organizing and mobilizing. McAlevey discusses what ails the labour movement, problem with the terms "public" and "private" sector, and why we need to stop ignoring the rank-and-file.
- Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
- Labor Organizing Across Israel's Apartheid Line: An Interview with Israeli Labor Activist Yoav Tamir
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Yoav Tamir is an organizer with the new Israeli labour union, Workers Advice Center, or WAC-MANN. WAC-MAAN was founded in the late 1990s as (as its name might suggest) a workers' advice center, and began organizing unions and negotiating contracts in 2010. A product of both deepening austerity within Israel as well as the wave of uprisings in the Arab world in 2011, WAC-MAAN organizes both across the racial line and across the Green Line, doing what no other labor organization in Israel or Palestine's history has done: create a multi-ethnic, bi-national workers' movement.
- Labor Organizing in a Lean World: Workers of the World Unite? - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
Workers in A Lean World. Unions in the International Economy by Kim Moody (Verso, 1997). Paperback $20.
- The Labor Party in the Big Picture
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
THE LABOR PARTY convention was inspiring. At the Detroit chapter's report-back meeting, locked-out newspaper workers talked about how good it felt to be in a convention hall where everyone would support you, "unlike the Democrats and Republicans."
Authorizing the possibility of electoral campaigns means that, in the places where those happen, we have the potential to attract a whole different layer of members.
- Labour Spies
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Labor spies are persons recruited or employed for the purpose of gathering intelligence, committing sabotage, sowing dissent, or engaging in other similar activities, typically within the context of an employer/labor organization relationship. Labor spying is most typically used by companies or their agents, and such activity often complements union busting.
- The Labor Wars
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
- Lessons from small shop organizing
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
A significant amount of organizing experience in the IWW comes from working in relatively small workplaces such as stand-alone single shops or franchises of multiple smaller shops. These places present their own set of difficulties and opportunities.
- Life After Death for Labor?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
A review of Stanley Aronowitz's book "The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers’ Movement."
- Life Support for Labor?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Debate Over how to save the labour movement suffers from a serious deficit of books written by organizers. Rarely do we get an entire book by someone who has been organizing for four decades, and is still actively engaged with union members, staff and leaders.
- Machinists Continue to Grow with OPT
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The IAMAW now represents more Patient Transfer Medical Attendants in Canada than any other union with the addition of 55 members at the Ontario Patient Transfer station in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
- Machinists Expand in Hospitality Sector Again!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Machinists Union organize another Ontario hotel, the sixth hotel in the past two years
- Machinists Ratify First Agreement with Empire Living!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
IAMAW answers concerns of retirement home workers in new contract. Workers wanted seniority provisions when they joined the IAMAW in February 2011. This new agreement delivered on that promise!
- Marx and Makhno Meet McDonald's
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
Over the last several years, a revolving network of militants in Paris, France, have developed a strategy and tactics for winning strikes by marginal, low-paid, outsourced and immigrant workers against international chains, in situations where the strikers are often ignored by unions to which they nominally belong, or are actually obstructed by them.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- Migrant Workers Fight Exploitation in New Zealand
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Unite Union has dealt with several cases of extreme exploitation of migrant workers. It seems that some of the liquor shops around Auckland have been employing students from India and paying a pittance four or five dollars an hour, well below the legal minimum of $13.75 an hour.
- Mining History Written in Blood
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Domestic coal mining history above and below ground lives on the pages of Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction edited by Wess Harris (PM Press, 2017). The anthology unpacks the industry, people and communities of a coal-rich region, amplifying relevant class and gender issues over a century.
- Monographs on the Portuguese
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
- More than one way to strike
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
Rather than simply walk away from their vehicles, drivers could keep driving, but refuse to collect fares. This puts pressure on the employer without inconveniencing riders.
- New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class-Struggle Unionism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
A book that compiles workers struggles on a global basis, examining the formation and expansion of radical unions in the Global South and Global North.
- The New Worker Organizing
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Many, perhaps most, worker center–based organizing projects focused on workers in low-wage jobs, are conducted with the active support and, often enough, leadership provided by a variety of community-based organizations—with support from one or more unions.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- The Nine-Hour Movement
How civil disobedience made unions legal
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
From today’s strike-first strategy of fast food workers in America, to the 1965 postal workers wildcat which ushered in public sector collective bargaining, civil disobedience has long been essential to breaking through legal barriers imposed on workers. The birth of Canada's labour movement was during a movement of mass civil disobedience in attempt to secure the nine hour workday.
- On workplace organisation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
A look at the exchange between Stan Weir and Sam Friedman on workplace organisation.
- Organizers Worth Their Salt
"Let's drink to the hard working people; Let's drink to the salt of the Earth"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A few unions are recruiting salts these days, usually young people who apply for low-wage jobs in retail, hospitality, or logistics. But unions are reluctant to talk about salting, not wanting to alert management to look out for suspicious characters.
- Organizing In Mexico: It's Tough, Often Brutal, And It Means Taking On The State
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The system in Mexico operates to the detriment of independent unions. Although the Mexican system of labour relations initially conferred real benefits on workers and peasants whose organizations supported the government, it now functions to maintain a status quo where benefits flow only to corrupt union leaders.
- Organizing "The Organized"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
For many years, American unions have been trying to “organize of the unorganized” to offset, and, where possible, reverse their steady loss of dues-paying membership. In union circles, a distinction was often made between that "external organizing" – to recruit workers who currently lack collective bargaining rights – and "internal organizing," which involves engaging more members in contract fights and other forms of collective action aimed at strengthening existing bargaining units.
- Organizing The Unorganized is the key to building the Union
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1981
This article comments on a policy paper presented for discussion at the 1981 UEW conference in Montreal.
- Organizing Unions
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
How to form or build a union. Shows how to strength organizing drives by responding to the concerns of all workers, including women, immigrant workers, people of colour, workers with disabilities, lebians and gay men, and part-time and casual workers.
- Organizing with Love: Lessons from the New York Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Campaign
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Great organizing campaigns are like great love affairs. You begin to see life through a different lens. You change in unexpected ways. You lose sleep, but you also feel boundless energy. You develop new relationships and new interests. Your skin becomes more open to the world around you. Life feels different, and it’s almost like you’ve been reborn. And, most importantly, you begin to feel things that you previously couldn’t have even imagined are possible.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 15, 2015
Workers' Health and Safety
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
The topic of the week is Workers' Health and Safety. Articles on why environmentalists should support working class struggles; whistleblowers; the appalling death rate from U.S. drone strikes; the murderous attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris; and what humanity could learn from Bonobos. The feature from the archives is Traces of Magma. The International Labor Rights Forum is the group of the week, and Silkwood is the film of the week.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
Organizing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work toward common goals, collectively. That requires organizing. Power gives way only when it is challenged by powerful movements for change, and movements grow out of organizing. In this newsletter, we feature a number of articles, books, and other organizing resources.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
Urban agriculture and local food production
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016
Working class organizing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. In this issue, we pay special attention to working class organizing. There can be no meaningful change without the active participation of the majority of the population: working people. Yet much activism ignores this obvious reality, while the organized labour union movement has put much of its reliance on 'professionals' who see organizing as a top-down technique rather than a grassroots movement. Several articles in this issue look at aspects of these issues. We also delve into the relationship between feminism and socialism, and look at the so-called 'sharing economy,' which produces increasingly exploited and precarious work, and immense profits for super-rich corporate owners.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 5, 2016
International Women's Day
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
In this issue of Other Voices, we mark International Women's Day. An article written by Alexandra Kollontai in 1920 talks about the early history of this event, which grew out of a proposal put forward by Clara Zetkin at the 1910 International Conference of Working Women. A key focus at that time was winning the vote for women, with the slogan "The vote for women will unite our strength in the struggle for socialism". The link between women's rights and socialism became even clearer a few years later, in 1917, when a Women's Day march in St. Petersburg turned into a revolutionary uprising which led to the overthrow of the Czar and the Russian Revolution.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appearance of democratic legitimacy for the profoundly undemocratic structures of the EU. The gambit turned out to be a spectacular miscalculation, as millions of people turned out to express their opposition to a state of affairs that is leaving the majority worse off while enriching a small minority. This issue of Other Voices looks at the Brexit referendum, elite loathing for democracy, and the related attempt to get rid of Labour's leftwing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018
Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2018
How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary? Even more importantly, what will it take for people to come together and act collectively to bring about that transformation? What can we do to help make this happen?
- Our Generation
Volume 18 Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Plunderbund and Proletariat
A History of the IWW in B.C.
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
A history of working class struggle from the workers' perspective.
- The problem with 1199's 'Advice to Rookie Organizers'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
One of the most widely-circulated statements on organizing is SEIU 1199’s “Advice to rookie organizers,” popularized most recently by Jane McAlevey but originally drafted in 1985 at an SEIU organizing conference. It’s good advice — it’s actually excellent advice for the most part — and I think anyone who takes a hard look at almost any organizing can spot where things went right by how closely it followed this advice and where things went wrong by where it deviated from it.
- Promoting your union
Six strategies to get more organizing leads and union members
Resource Type: Book
Promoting Your Union is a book to help union organizers get more organizing leads, create outreach plans to bring in new members and build the power of their unions. The ideas in this book are based on actual best practices from union organizers who are using these tactics in the field.
- A Proposal to American Labor
'Open source unionism' could reinvigorate American labor in the age of the Internet
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
The authors posit that union membership is too restricted by the requirement that unions have majority support in the workplace. They believe that pro-union workers who are a minority in their workplace should be mobilized by the labor movement if it wants to grow.
- Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Queer Activism in the Labor Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In the 1970s, Teresa Rankin kept her sexual orientation private while organizing textile workers at J.P. Stevens in North Carolina. When the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) offered her an organizing position in a small town in Virginia, Rankin, turned down the opportunity fearing isolation due to her sexual orientation.
- Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
Today, fewer than 7% of American private-sector workers belong to a union and public employee collective bargaining has been dealt devastating blows in Wisconsin and elsewhere. This book argues that labour can be revived with social movement unionism that involves raising worker's expectations.
- Randolph, A. Philip
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
African-American civil rights leader. (1889-1979).
- Rank and File
Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers.
- The Rank and File Strategy: Building A Socialist Movement in the U.S.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
We are seeing more and more attempts by rank and file union members to make their unions more democratic and more effective in fighting today's highly aggressive employers and in organizing the unorganized.
- RankandFile.ca
Resource Type: Website
Canadian labour news and analysis from a critical perspective.
- Sisters and Solidarity
Women and Unions in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Social Movements/Social Change
The Politics and Practice of Organizing - Socialist Studies 4
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
This collection of essays covers movements related to labour, ecology, childcare, peace, disability, gay rights, and access to abortion.
- Sources welcomes Michael Riordon
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
- Strike Friday at Amazon.it
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Amazon workers at the Castel San Giovanni hub launched their first strike on Black Friday 2017. The facility is Amazon's largest in Italy, where the retail giant employs up to four thousand workers, less than half of whom have a permanent contract.
- Strike strategy today
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Why has the use of the strike in the US become so scarce? While subjective factors are more difficult to quantify, certain basic reasons seem more readily evident. Union membership, particularly in the private sector, is at an all-time low. Most of the unions are heavily bureaucratized, and central labor councils ossified. "Sympathy strikes," long ago outlawed by Taft-Hartley, militate against the sort of broad-based solidarity so essential to an industrial victory. Moreover, many unions have accepted no-strike clauses for the duration of their contracts, effectively tying one hand behind their backs.
- They Are Still Killing Trade Union Leaders
Global Capital's Death Squads and Night-Riders
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Question: So what happens these days in developing countries when a prominent, charismatic union activist - with the courage to stand up to sinister, government-supported business groups who have, on more than one occasion, already threatened his life - attempts to get the country’s underpaid, under-benefited workers to join a labor union? Answer: They kill him.
- Towards Workers' Climate Action
Book review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
A review of a book and a pamphlet by Paul Hampton, both on the urgent need for workers' action on climate change.
- A Troublemaker's Handbook
How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
- A Troublemaker's Handbook 2
Resource Type: Book
A manual for workers who want to take control over their lives at work. In hundreds of first-person accounts, workers tell in their own words how they organized and struggled to do that.
- An Unauthorized Biography of the World
Oral History on the Front Lines
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
- Union has right to be in mall
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
- Union organizer
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A union organizer is a union representative who "organizes" or unionizes non-union companies or worksites.
- 'We are not from another planet': Justice 4 Cleaners campaign and the struggle for recognition
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The ongoing struggle of the SOAS Cleaners for acceptable working conditions and equality in the workplace.
- What's Left of Queer?: Immigration, Sexuality, and Affect in a Neoliberal World
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
We need to refuse the narratives of abjection that are routinely forced upon us. They only render us immobile creatures, begging for help. We are all neoliberals now. We're all selling our bodies, our lives, our stories to the media and to provide comfort to ourselves. Those stories have to be challenged and reworked or we lose sight of the larger story of economic exploitation, at our peril.
- When Hate Groups Come to Town
A Handbook of Model Community Responses
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1986
A handbook for dealing with hate groups in communities across North America, dealing with the nature of such groups and how they work and how communities can band together to combat them.
- The Whistle-Blower as Deep Mole
Spying on Malfeasance
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
There’s an intriguing idea based loosely on the turn-of-the-century union practice of "salting" a workplace. Salting consists of union activists secretly hiring into an anti-union shop in order to promote unionism from within.
- Who Advocates Spontaneity?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
- The Winter of our Discontent
Experiences Organizing Nursing Homes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
An account by two nursing home workers describing their jobs and their successful efforts to organize unions at their workplaces.
Published in Issue #2 (1973) on the New Tendency newsletter.
- Wisconsin Uprising
Labor Fights Back
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A collection of essays describing the working class uprising that occurred in Wisconsin, in February and early March of 2011.
- A Word to Say
The Story of the Maritime Fishermen's Union
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
An account of how inshore fishermen, most of them Acadian, came together to take control of their industry and their livelihood and form the Maritime Fishermen's Union.
- Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity
Tackling climate change in a neoliberal world
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Paul Hampton, a Marxist trade union researcher in Britain, addresses the role of workers in the climate justice movement, as well as the tasks of revolutionaries.
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