«You know nothing about organization unless at every step you relate it to its opposite, spontaneity. It is meaningless without that co-relative, its Other», wrote C. L. R. James. Join us this Sunday at 12pm PST, with @outsidadgitator and Red May Seattle. ahuehuete.substack.com/p/session05

"We present here an unprecedented document of great value about the lives of American workers." Introduction to The American Worker pamphlet in Socialisme ou Barbarie, Issue 1 (1949).

We translated parts of a book on the 'political collectives for workers' power' in Veneto in the 1970s... libcom.org pagliacci rossi Working Class History Plan C Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life angryworkers.org/2023/03/08/the…

Join us April 14th at the CUNY Grad Center (and online!) for “Our Land! Our Nature!” a day-long conference to #DecolonizeConservation & celebrate the official launch of “Decolonize Conservation: Global Voices for Indigenous Self-determination, Land, and a World in Common.”

All Work and No Pay: Women, Housework, and the Wages Due is a collection of essays, speeches and extracts written by feminist organisations such as the Power of Women Collective, Wages for Housework Committee and others.

1/ In banking crises, suggestions are made to nationalize the banks - usually with the concerns of depositors in mind. But banks mainly amass money to loan to capitalists to invest, i.e., impose more work. Nationalization wouldn't change that.

What's sad is his failure to see how "the economic process itself" IS the class struggle - between the subordination of life to commodity producing work vs resistance and the recurrent creation of alternatives which challenge that insane mode of life.

An article from Lavoro Zero - the journal of the Porto Marghera operaista group - was translated into Spanish last week. Not sure whether the digitalisation of the journal I've done with the PM library and the Leftove.rs archive had a role, but cool to see it anyway!

Thanks to help from Johnson-Forest City, "Our Own Time," a chronicle of the class struggle over free time vs. work in American labor history, is now up on libcom.org libcom.org/article/our-ow…

New Post 📰 A poem on the passions and frustrations of today's union movement, inspired by the Russian and Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. thecommoner.org.uk/lines-on-a-uni…

Just had a generous & wide-ranging with Marcelo Hoffman, author of the fantastic Militant Acts, about the "hidden tradition" of workers' inquiry & first-person narratives of work in the US, overcoming the division between "intellectuals & workers," & searching for Paul Romano.

📢 Calling all worker photographers! 📸 We are looking for photo correspondents for our new project, who are interested in carrying out a visual worker’s inquiry in their workplace. 🗓️ Join our workshop at MayDay Rooms on 1st June @ 6pm. Sign up below! notesfrombelow.org/article/callin…

Zine version of Colectivo Situaciones’ “Twelve Hypotheses about Counter-power” illwill.com/print/twelve-h…

Solidarity with our brothers and sisters who are fighting in Jujuy. Here in LatAm the insurrections are moments of unity of the different manifestations of the proletariat with the indigenous-peasant communities oppressed by capital,

"Mario Tronti, one of postwar Italy’s greatest theorists of capitalism and the workers’ movement, died on 7 August... Tronti wrote revolutionary theory for those at the barricades, and his early works inspired generations in Italy and around the world." buff.ly/3YLiTtH