Labor/ Work

div class=field field-type-filefield field-field-photo div class=field-items div class=field-item odd div class=filefield-fileimg class=filefield-icon field-icon-image-png alt=image/png icon src=http://libcom.org/sites/libcom.org/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/image-x-generic.png /a href=http://libcom.org/files/images/blog/Picture 13.png type=image/png; length=997055Picture 13.png/a/div /div /div /div div class=field field-type-text field-field-introduction div class=field-items div class=field-item odd p Check out this interview with Noam Chomsky about the growing housing justice movement, the future of Occupy, and how direct action can play into all of this. /p /div /div /div p As a commentator, educator, public intellectual, and one of the best-known anarchist voices in the U.S., Noam Chomsky has become a defining perspective as social movements develop. His analysis of the shift in global capitalism, and our own role in its flux, has seen a recharge of importance as we entered the “new normal” of the post-2008 economy. /p div class=field field-type-text field-field-key-quote div class=field-items div class=field-item odd You never know when it’s going to take off. You couldn’t have predicted that in Greensboro, North Carolina. You couldn’t have predicted it with Rosa Parks. You couldn’t have predicted it with Zuccotti Park. -Noam Chomsky /div /div /div pa href=http://libcom.org/blog/direct-action-occupy-wallstreet-future-housing-justice-interview-noam-chomsky-17042013 target=_blankread more/a/p

LabourStart headline - Source: IndustriALL Global Union

LabourStart headline - Source: Bloomberg

LabourStart headline - Source: Asia Pacific Currents

LabourStart headline - Source: In These Times

LabourStart headline - Source: IndustriALL Global Union

LabourStart headline - Source: ILWU

LabourStart headline - Source: IndustriALL Global Union

LabourStart headline - Source: Huffington Post

LabourStart headline - Source: Bloomberg

div class=field field-type-filefield field-field-photo div class=field-items div class=field-item odd div class=filefield-fileimg class=filefield-icon field-icon-image-jpeg alt=image/jpeg icon src=http://libcom.org/sites/libcom.org/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/image-x-generic.png /a href=http://libcom.org/files/images/library/phoca_thumb_l_spanien108.jpg type=image/jpeg; length=43877phoca_thumb_l_spanien108.jpg/a/div /div /div /div div class=field field-type-text field-field-introduction div class=field-items div class=field-item odd p Libcom.org's reading guide on literature with a focus on work and accurate representations of working class life, culture and resistance to power. /p /div /div /div h2a name=AmericanAmerican/a/h2 pspan style=font-weight:boldAlfred Bester/span/p ul class=bb-list style=list-style-type:circle; li a href=http://libcom.org/library/stars-my-destination-alfred-bester class=bb-urlThe Stars My Destination/a - In a world where transportation is possible with a thought, prisoners break free, economies crash and the slums emptied. Gully Foyle is marooned in space with a material that could destroy the universe. He has to give it away, but to who?/li /ul pa href=http://libcom.org/library/working-class-literature-reading-guide target=_blankread more/a/p

div class=field field-type-filefield field-field-photo div class=field-items div class=field-item odd div class=filefield-fileimg class=filefield-icon field-icon-image-jpeg alt=image/jpeg icon src=http://libcom.org/sites/libcom.org/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/image-x-generic.png /a href=http://libcom.org/files/images/library/congresfora.jpg type=image/jpeg; length=41602congresfora.jpg/a/div /div /div /div div class=field field-type-text field-field-introduction div class=field-items div class=field-item odd p This piece has a number of intriguing ideas that were circulating in the FORA. Lopez Arango counterposes a static view of unions and anarchism to one inherently grounded in trajectories of struggle, and puts the dynamics of change in struggle at the core of revolutionary work. Though this is only fragmentary, it provides a rare insight into another side of anarchism and unions, and one that gives a refreshing departure from more schematic and purely moralistic or ideological orientations. /p /div /div /div p From the weekly supplement of La Protesta, July 13, 1925br / Emilio López Arango (translated by SN Nappalos) /p div class=field field-type-text field-field-key-quote div class=field-items div class=field-item odd quot;What interests us is not the object pursued by the proletariat... but rather the way they express their discontent... and the means used to secure their conquestsquot;. /div /div /div div class=field field-type-text field-field-kq-attribution div class=field-items div class=field-item odd Emilio Lopez Arango /div /div /div pa href=http://libcom.org/library/syndicalism-anarchism target=_blankread more/a/p

LabourStart headline - Source: The Daily News

div class=field field-type-filefield field-field-photo div class=field-items div class=field-item odd div class=filefield-fileimg class=filefield-icon field-icon-image-jpeg alt=image/jpeg icon src=http://libcom.org/sites/libcom.org/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/image-x-generic.png /a href=http://libcom.org/files/images/blog/11_0.jpg type=image/jpeg; length=30936511.jpg/a/div /div /div /div div class=field field-type-text field-field-introduction div class=field-items div class=field-item odd p In this article, Madaline tells the story of how she fell into organizing and the IWW – pushed both by terrible bosses and by amazing solidarity among her coworkers. /p /div /div /div p If the first week of work at Artistry Bakery and Cafe was any indication, there was no way this four-month experience should ever have resulted in two of the strongest friendships in my life. I was introduced on the first day to a group of men and women, mostly about University age, who were also going to be working with me at the restaurant. /p pa href=http://libcom.org/blog/working-artistry-bakery-cafe-13042013 target=_blankread more/a/p

div class=field field-type-filefield field-field-photo div class=field-items div class=field-item odd div class=filefield-fileimg class=filefield-icon field-icon-image-png alt=image/png icon src=http://libcom.org/sites/libcom.org/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/image-x-generic.png /a href=http://libcom.org/files/images/news/welfare-spending.PNG type=image/png; length=20617welfare-spending.PNG/a/div /div /div /div div class=field field-type-text field-field-introduction div class=field-items div class=field-item odd p Excellent document from the New Economics Foundation debunking government and media rhetoric about benefit quot;skiversquot; and showing that only 2.6% of welfare spending is on the unemployed. /p /div /div /div h3 id=execSummaryExecutive Summary/h3 div class=vertical-margindiv class=product-bodyh2strongThe myth/strong/h2p‘Strivers versus skivers’ purports to sums up our welfare state, and why, therefore, the benefits system should be reformed./p /div/divpa href=http://libcom.org/news/mythbuster-strivers-v-skivers-13042013 target=_blankread more/a/p

div class=field field-type-filefield field-field-photo div class=field-items div class=field-item odd div class=filefield-fileimg class=filefield-icon field-icon-image-jpeg alt=image/jpeg icon src=http://libcom.org/sites/libcom.org/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/image-x-generic.png /a href=http://libcom.org/files/images/library/photo (20)_0.JPG type=image/jpeg; length=84065photo (20).JPG/a/div /div /div /div div class=field field-type-text field-field-introduction div class=field-items div class=field-item odd p In 2012, workers at a small moving company in New York City rose up against bad pay and dangerous work conditions. In the course of the struggle, much was revealed about how exploitation operates; how the enticements of #039;self-expression#039; and a #039;laid back#039; atmosphere serve to weaken consciousness and collective action. At the same time, this history reveals the opportunities and limits that workers face within self-organized struggles in a small business format. This is an updated version with a new 2013 afterward by the original author. /p /div /div /div p In the Summer of 2012 the exploited workers at Rabbit Movers autonomously organized our shop and began the fight for control over the conditions of our lives. This is one worker’s account of how it all went down. /p pspan style=font-weight:bold“They Just Run Us Into The Ground...”/span /p div class=field field-type-text field-field-key-quote div class=field-items div class=field-item odd Rabbit Movers will not be under the tyranny of a union. I do this because I love it. Because I believe in it. As soon as the architecture of this company is dictated by a union - I will stop loving it... Save Rabbit Movers. Tell [the organizers] to Fuck Off. /div /div /div div class=field field-type-text field-field-kq-attribution div class=field-items div class=field-item odd Rabbit Movers Owner, Shawn Lyons /div /div /div pa href=http://libcom.org/library/moving-story-afterward target=_blankread more/a/p

LabourStart headline - Source: Arab News

LabourStart headline - Source: ITF

LabourStart headline - Source: Egypt Independent

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A critique of liberal conceptions of 'intersectionality' and an outline of an anarchist, class struggle approach.

We need to understand the body not as bound to the private or to the self—the western idea of the autonomous individual—but as being linked integrally to material expressions of community and public space.

Systemic oppressions such as white supremacy cannot be understood without an analysis of how those systems are gendered, sexualized, classed, etc. Similarly, this kind of analysis can be extended to understanding how all human relations of domination function. Abbey Volcano & J. Rogue

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