What in the hell …

Back to the Future is not only the title of a great piece of cinematic art but also a way of thinking about the present politically. (more…)

I put up a speech Staughton Lynd gave in Minneapolis a few years back, about general strikes. (more…)

They’re the title of two columns from the Industrial Worker newspaper. Minority Report was a column that ran a while back and isn’t running anymore. Workers Power started a few years later and is still running. I think both are good. I’ve helped on the Workers Power columns. The Workers Power columns page includes illustration from my friend Jefferson. You can see more of his artwork here. Definitely more relevant than my scattered IWW musings and all.

So I wrote this thing, partly putting down some of the thoughts that occurred to me as I was reading this stuff on social insertion. (more…)

Among Marx’s more powerful phrases is his assertion of the “coining of children’s blood into capital.” (more…)

As the result of a combination of a post of Chris’s and an excellent article in an old issue of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review that I read while in sunny California for a wobbly meeting recently, I’ve been thinking about history. (more…)

A hot shop is when the shit has hit the fan at work and everyone sees very cleary and very suddenly how fucked up the place is. A hot shop is not necessarily good thing. It is certainly as much of a problem for organizing as it is an opportunity. (more…)

If you want to organize your workplace, that is. (more…)