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📰 ICE operations continue in Michigan as local cops play key role

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/21/hfcq-m21.html

#Socialist #Marxist #WorkersMovement

📰 ICE operations continue in Michigan as local cops play key role

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/21/hfcq-m21.html

#Socialist #Marxist #WorkersMovement

📰 ICE operations continue in Michigan as local cops play key role

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/21/hfcq-m21.html

#Socialist #Marxist #WorkersMovement

📰 ICE operations continue in Michigan as local cops play key role

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/21/hfcq-m21.html

#Socialist #Marxist #WorkersMovement

📰 Workers at Hersheypark theme park in Pennsylvania voting to strike

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/14/otqc-m14.html

#Socialist #Marxist #WorkersMovement

📰 Workers at Hersheypark theme park in Pennsylvania voting to strike

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/14/otqc-m14.html

#Socialist #Marxist #WorkersMovement

📰 Workers at Hersheypark theme park in Pennsylvania voting to strike

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/14/otqc-m14.html

#Socialist #Marxist #WorkersMovement

📰 Workers at Hersheypark theme park in Pennsylvania voting to strike

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/14/otqc-m14.html

#Socialist #Marxist #WorkersMovement

📰 Starmer faces potential leadership challenge from Blairite Health Secretary Wes Streeting

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/13/tkaw-m13.html

#Socialist #Marxist #WorkersMovement

📰 Starmer faces potential leadership challenge from Blairite Health Secretary Wes Streeting

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/13/tkaw-m13.html

#Socialist #Marxist #WorkersMovement

📰 Starmer faces potential leadership challenge from Blairite Health Secretary Wes Streeting

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/13/tkaw-m13.html

#Socialist #Marxist #WorkersMovement

📰 Starmer faces potential leadership challenge from Blairite Health Secretary Wes Streeting

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/13/tkaw-m13.html

#Socialist #Marxist #WorkersMovement

📰 “I’m not going to stop using my voice”: Dana auto parts worker fired for exposing deadly conditions at Detroit area plant

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/12/orwe-m12.html

#Socialist #Marxist #WorkersMovement

📰 “I’m not going to stop using my voice”: Dana auto parts worker fired for exposing deadly conditions at Detroit area plant

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/12/orwe-m12.html

#Socialist #Marxist #WorkersMovement

📰 “I’m not going to stop using my voice”: Dana auto parts worker fired for exposing deadly conditions at Detroit area plant

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/12/orwe-m12.html

#Socialist #Marxist #WorkersMovement

📰 “I’m not going to stop using my voice”: Dana auto parts worker fired for exposing deadly conditions at Detroit area plant

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/12/orwe-m12.html

#Socialist #Marxist #WorkersMovement

📰 “I’m not going to stop using my voice”: Dana auto parts worker fired for exposing deadly conditions at Detroit area plant

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/12/orwe-m12.html

#Socialist #Marxist #WorkersMovement

Thousands of workers in India defy state repression to demand their rightful wages
#WorkersRights #WorkersMovement
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/16/thousands-of-workers-in-india-defy-state-repression-to-demand-their-rightful-wages/

Brazilian workers mobilize in capital to demand an end to six-day work week
#WorkersRights #WorkersMovement
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/15/brazilian-workers-mobilize-in-capital-to-demand-an-end-to-six-day-work-week/

**Thursday**
I met with these orgs:

- co-operative building the social capacity for digital autonomy through commoning https://democratictech.fund
- solidarity committee https://latinamerika-gruppene.no
- solidarity committee https://palestinakomiteen.no
- youth environmental group https://nu.no
- environmental action group https://www.folkmotfossilmakta.no
- anarchist news paper https://gateavisa.net
- mutual aid funding co-op https://bread.coop
- tech workers' co-op @agaric

I met with solidarity brigadists from these orgs:

- CNA - Coordinador Nacional Agrario (Colombia), https://cnacolombia.org
- MST - Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Brasil), https://mst.org.br
- Conavigua - Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala, https://conavigua.org.gt/es

In the general area of democratization and working class struggle, I went to and participated in:

- a book bath about a third housing sector, https://www.facebook.com/events/4550301785205231
- a seminar about anarchism and syndicalism in the norwegian workers' movement, https://www.lo.no/folketshjorne/hva-skjer/arrangementsliste/2026/april/en-annen-verden-er-mulig-martin-tranm%C3%A6l-og-syndikalismen/

**Friday**

I met with these orgs:

- environmental action group @XR_Norway
- political party https://sv.no

I met with folks of these orgs:

- network of orgs for donut economics @nettverket_smultringkonomi_norge
- digital hosting association/co-op for people https://datakollektivet.no

All but 2 of the orgs I've met with thus far are positive to becoming independent from big tech.
Most are trying to do *something*.
Some have done a critical review of their digital systems, evaluated alternatives, and developed contingency plans for when/if the US escalates their digital attacks on orgs daring to stand for love, freedom, equality, solidarity, and against fascism.
Some orgs are already using digital infrastructure which secures their continued organizational capability; and have been for years.

#democraticTechFund #LAG #Palestine #Palestina #solidarity #abyaYala #latinAmerica #NU #naturOgUngdom #folkMotFossilMakta #gateAvisa #breadCoop #agaricCollective #CNA #MST #coNaViGua #housing #anarchism #syndicalism #workers #workersMovement #LO #union #climate #extinctionRebellion #SV #socialism #donutEconomics #doughnutEconomics #sustainability #datakollektivet #alleTilAllheimen #allheimen

**Thursday**
I met with these orgs:

- co-operative building the social capacity for digital autonomy through commoning https://democratictech.fund
- solidarity committee https://latinamerika-gruppene.no
- solidarity committee https://palestinakomiteen.no
- youth environmental group https://nu.no
- environmental action group https://www.folkmotfossilmakta.no
- anarchist news paper https://gateavisa.net
- mutual aid funding co-op https://bread.coop
- tech workers' co-op @agaric

I met with solidarity brigadists from these orgs:

- CNA - Coordinador Nacional Agrario (Colombia), https://cnacolombia.org
- MST - Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Brasil), https://mst.org.br
- Conavigua - Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala, https://conavigua.org.gt/es

In the general area of democratization and working class struggle, I went to and participated in:

- a book bath about a third housing sector, https://www.facebook.com/events/4550301785205231
- a seminar about anarchism and syndicalism in the norwegian workers' movement, https://www.lo.no/folketshjorne/hva-skjer/arrangementsliste/2026/april/en-annen-verden-er-mulig-martin-tranm%C3%A6l-og-syndikalismen/

**Friday**

I met with these orgs:

- environmental action group @XR_Norway
- political party https://sv.no

I met with folks of these orgs:

- network of orgs for donut economics @nettverket_smultringkonomi_norge
- digital hosting association/co-op for people https://datakollektivet.no

All but 2 of the orgs I've met with thus far are positive to becoming independent from big tech.
Most are trying to do *something*.
Some have done a critical review of their digital systems, evaluated alternatives, and developed contingency plans for when/if the US escalates their digital attacks on orgs daring to stand for love, freedom, equality, solidarity, and against fascism.
Some orgs are already using digital infrastructure which secures their continued organizational capability; and have been for years.

#democraticTechFund #LAG #Palestine #Palestina #solidarity #abyaYala #latinAmerica #NU #naturOgUngdom #folkMotFossilMakta #gateAvisa #breadCoop #agaricCollective #CNA #MST #coNaViGua #housing #anarchism #syndicalism #workers #workersMovement #LO #union #climate #extinctionRebellion #SV #socialism #donutEconomics #doughnutEconomics #sustainability #datakollektivet #alleTilAllheimen #allheimen

**Thursday**
I met with these orgs:

- co-operative building the social capacity for digital autonomy through commoning https://democratictech.fund
- solidarity committee https://latinamerika-gruppene.no
- solidarity committee https://palestinakomiteen.no
- youth environmental group https://nu.no
- environmental action group https://www.folkmotfossilmakta.no
- anarchist news paper https://gateavisa.net
- mutual aid funding co-op https://bread.coop
- tech workers' co-op @agaric

I met with solidarity brigadists from these orgs:

- CNA - Coordinador Nacional Agrario (Colombia), https://cnacolombia.org
- MST - Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Brasil), https://mst.org.br
- Conavigua - Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala, https://conavigua.org.gt/es

In the general area of democratization and working class struggle, I went to and participated in:

- a book bath about a third housing sector, https://www.facebook.com/events/4550301785205231
- a seminar about anarchism and syndicalism in the norwegian workers' movement, https://www.lo.no/folketshjorne/hva-skjer/arrangementsliste/2026/april/en-annen-verden-er-mulig-martin-tranm%C3%A6l-og-syndikalismen/

**Friday**

I met with these orgs:

- environmental action group @XR_Norway
- political party https://sv.no

I met with folks of these orgs:

- network of orgs for donut economics @nettverket_smultringkonomi_norge
- digital hosting association/co-op for people https://datakollektivet.no

All but 2 of the orgs I've met with thus far are positive to becoming independent from big tech.
Most are trying to do *something*.
Some have done a critical review of their digital systems, evaluated alternatives, and developed contingency plans for when/if the US escalates their digital attacks on orgs daring to stand for love, freedom, equality, solidarity, and against fascism.
Some orgs are already using digital infrastructure which secures their continued organizational capability; and have been for years.

#democraticTechFund #LAG #Palestine #Palestina #solidarity #abyaYala #latinAmerica #NU #naturOgUngdom #folkMotFossilMakta #gateAvisa #breadCoop #agaricCollective #CNA #MST #coNaViGua #housing #anarchism #syndicalism #workers #workersMovement #LO #union #climate #extinctionRebellion #SV #socialism #donutEconomics #doughnutEconomics #sustainability #datakollektivet #alleTilAllheimen #allheimen

**Thursday**
I met with these orgs:

- co-operative building the social capacity for digital autonomy through commoning https://democratictech.fund
- solidarity committee https://latinamerika-gruppene.no
- solidarity committee https://palestinakomiteen.no
- youth environmental group https://nu.no
- environmental action group https://www.folkmotfossilmakta.no
- anarchist news paper https://gateavisa.net
- mutual aid funding co-op https://bread.coop
- tech workers' co-op @agaric

I met with solidarity brigadists from these orgs:

- CNA - Coordinador Nacional Agrario (Colombia), https://cnacolombia.org
- MST - Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Brasil), https://mst.org.br
- Conavigua - Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala, https://conavigua.org.gt/es

In the general area of democratization and working class struggle, I went to and participated in:

- a book bath about a third housing sector, https://www.facebook.com/events/4550301785205231
- a seminar about anarchism and syndicalism in the norwegian workers' movement, https://www.lo.no/folketshjorne/hva-skjer/arrangementsliste/2026/april/en-annen-verden-er-mulig-martin-tranm%C3%A6l-og-syndikalismen/

**Friday**

I met with these orgs:

- environmental action group @XR_Norway
- political party https://sv.no

I met with folks of these orgs:

- network of orgs for donut economics @nettverket_smultringkonomi_norge
- digital hosting association/co-op for people https://datakollektivet.no

All but 2 of the orgs I've met with thus far are positive to becoming independent from big tech.
Most are trying to do *something*.
Some have done a critical review of their digital systems, evaluated alternatives, and developed contingency plans for when/if the US escalates their digital attacks on orgs daring to stand for love, freedom, equality, solidarity, and against fascism.
Some orgs are already using digital infrastructure which secures their continued organizational capability; and have been for years.

#democraticTechFund #LAG #Palestine #Palestina #solidarity #abyaYala #latinAmerica #NU #naturOgUngdom #folkMotFossilMakta #gateAvisa #breadCoop #agaricCollective #CNA #MST #coNaViGua #housing #anarchism #syndicalism #workers #workersMovement #LO #union #climate #extinctionRebellion #SV #socialism #donutEconomics #doughnutEconomics #sustainability #datakollektivet #alleTilAllheimen #allheimen

**Thursday**
I met with these orgs:

- co-operative building the social capacity for digital autonomy through commoning https://democratictech.fund
- solidarity committee https://latinamerika-gruppene.no
- solidarity committee https://palestinakomiteen.no
- youth environmental group https://nu.no
- environmental action group https://www.folkmotfossilmakta.no
- anarchist news paper https://gateavisa.net
- mutual aid funding co-op https://bread.coop
- tech workers' co-op @agaric

I met with solidarity brigadists from these orgs:

- CNA - Coordinador Nacional Agrario (Colombia), https://cnacolombia.org
- MST - Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Brasil), https://mst.org.br
- Conavigua - Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala, https://conavigua.org.gt/es

In the general area of democratization and working class struggle, I went to and participated in:

- a book bath about a third housing sector, https://www.facebook.com/events/4550301785205231
- a seminar about anarchism and syndicalism in the norwegian workers' movement, https://www.lo.no/folketshjorne/hva-skjer/arrangementsliste/2026/april/en-annen-verden-er-mulig-martin-tranm%C3%A6l-og-syndikalismen/

**Friday**

I met with these orgs:

- environmental action group @XR_Norway
- political party https://sv.no

I met with folks of these orgs:

- network of orgs for donut economics @nettverket_smultringkonomi_norge
- digital hosting association/co-op for people https://datakollektivet.no

All but 2 of the orgs I've met with thus far are positive to becoming independent from big tech.
Most are trying to do *something*.
Some have done a critical review of their digital systems, evaluated alternatives, and developed contingency plans for when/if the US escalates their digital attacks on orgs daring to stand for love, freedom, equality, solidarity, and against fascism.
Some orgs are already using digital infrastructure which secures their continued organizational capability; and have been for years.

#democraticTechFund #LAG #Palestine #Palestina #solidarity #abyaYala #latinAmerica #NU #naturOgUngdom #folkMotFossilMakta #gateAvisa #breadCoop #agaricCollective #CNA #MST #coNaViGua #housing #anarchism #syndicalism #workers #workersMovement #LO #union #climate #extinctionRebellion #SV #socialism #donutEconomics #doughnutEconomics #sustainability #datakollektivet #alleTilAllheimen #allheimen

What is the pathway to workers having a real say in the workplace?
The alternative production LUCAS PLAN in Britain in the 1970’s proposed greater workers’ control at the Birmingham Aerospace plant. Colin Redmond argues that it has something to say to us today.
#WorkersMovement #WorkersRights #socialism #cooperatives #selfmanagement #workplacedemocracy
https://rebelnews.ie/2026/03/23/what-is-the-pathway-to-workers-having-a-real-say-in-the-workplace/

Aight so me and two other good folks are starting a tech workers' cooperative. We've got plenty of stuff against us.
None of us have worked in a workers' cooperative or other kind of democratic workplace before.
There are barely a handful workers' coops in Norway. The national umbrella org for coops in Norway is basically dead and doesn't care about workers' coops at all.
Our coop is geographically distributed evenly along Norway, which means our northernmost worker-member would have to drive 24 hours by car or 44 hours by public transport to reach our southernmost worker-member.

We've put in effort to reduce our weaknesses, and we've got things going for us too.
We've met and continue to meet with other workers' coops to learn from them and collaborate. We've got potential clients and pilot projects. We've got hardware. We've got tech and business know-how. We're working on the formal stuff, bylaws and agreements.

It's going great.

Just wanted to let y'all know it can be done.

If you want to do it too, I recommend joining https://matrix.to/#/%23techcoop:autonomic.zone

#cooperative #coop #workersCooperative #democracy #socialism #anarchism #anarchy #communism #work #workersmovement #freedom #solidarity #egalitarian

Aight so me and two other good folks are starting a tech workers' cooperative. We've got plenty of stuff against us.
None of us have worked in a workers' cooperative or other kind of democratic workplace before.
There are barely a handful workers' coops in Norway. The national umbrella org for coops in Norway is basically dead and doesn't care about workers' coops at all.
Our coop is geographically distributed evenly along Norway, which means our northernmost worker-member would have to drive 24 hours by car or 44 hours by public transport to reach our southernmost worker-member.

We've put in effort to reduce our weaknesses, and we've got things going for us too.
We've met and continue to meet with other workers' coops to learn from them and collaborate. We've got potential clients and pilot projects. We've got hardware. We've got tech and business know-how. We're working on the formal stuff, bylaws and agreements.

It's going great.

Just wanted to let y'all know it can be done.

If you want to do it too, I recommend joining https://matrix.to/#/%23techcoop:autonomic.zone

#cooperative #coop #workersCooperative #democracy #socialism #anarchism #anarchy #communism #work #workersmovement #freedom #solidarity #egalitarian

Aight so me and two other good folks are starting a tech workers' cooperative. We've got plenty of stuff against us.
None of us have worked in a workers' cooperative or other kind of democratic workplace before.
There are barely a handful workers' coops in Norway. The national umbrella org for coops in Norway is basically dead and doesn't care about workers' coops at all.
Our coop is geographically distributed evenly along Norway, which means our northernmost worker-member would have to drive 24 hours by car or 44 hours by public transport to reach our southernmost worker-member.

We've put in effort to reduce our weaknesses, and we've got things going for us too.
We've met and continue to meet with other workers' coops to learn from them and collaborate. We've got potential clients and pilot projects. We've got hardware. We've got tech and business know-how. We're working on the formal stuff, bylaws and agreements.

It's going great.

Just wanted to let y'all know it can be done.

If you want to do it too, I recommend joining https://matrix.to/#/%23techcoop:autonomic.zone

#cooperative #coop #workersCooperative #democracy #socialism #anarchism #anarchy #communism #work #workersmovement #freedom #solidarity #egalitarian

Aight so me and two other good folks are starting a tech workers' cooperative. We've got plenty of stuff against us.
None of us have worked in a workers' cooperative or other kind of democratic workplace before.
There are barely a handful workers' coops in Norway. The national umbrella org for coops in Norway is basically dead and doesn't care about workers' coops at all.
Our coop is geographically distributed evenly along Norway, which means our northernmost worker-member would have to drive 24 hours by car or 44 hours by public transport to reach our southernmost worker-member.

We've put in effort to reduce our weaknesses, and we've got things going for us too.
We've met and continue to meet with other workers' coops to learn from them and collaborate. We've got potential clients and pilot projects. We've got hardware. We've got tech and business know-how. We're working on the formal stuff, bylaws and agreements.

It's going great.

Just wanted to let y'all know it can be done.

If you want to do it too, I recommend joining https://matrix.to/#/%23techcoop:autonomic.zone

#cooperative #coop #workersCooperative #democracy #socialism #anarchism #anarchy #communism #work #workersmovement #freedom #solidarity #egalitarian

Aight so me and two other good folks are starting a tech workers' cooperative. We've got plenty of stuff against us.
None of us have worked in a workers' cooperative or other kind of democratic workplace before.
There are barely a handful workers' coops in Norway. The national umbrella org for coops in Norway is basically dead and doesn't care about workers' coops at all.
Our coop is geographically distributed evenly along Norway, which means our northernmost worker-member would have to drive 24 hours by car or 44 hours by public transport to reach our southernmost worker-member.

We've put in effort to reduce our weaknesses, and we've got things going for us too.
We've met and continue to meet with other workers' coops to learn from them and collaborate. We've got potential clients and pilot projects. We've got hardware. We've got tech and business know-how. We're working on the formal stuff, bylaws and agreements.

It's going great.

Just wanted to let y'all know it can be done.

If you want to do it too, I recommend joining https://matrix.to/#/%23techcoop:autonomic.zone

#cooperative #coop #workersCooperative #democracy #socialism #anarchism #anarchy #communism #work #workersmovement #freedom #solidarity #egalitarian

Proletarian Disorganization as the Problem of Our Time. #BaseBuilding #WorkersMovement #Autonomism
https://communistcaucus.com/our-moment/

"I try to show that the Left in Europe, both the radical and the institutional, was caught in a bind by the strategies of employers, conservative political forces, and elements of the state. In both cases they were forced to choose between unappealing options. Perhaps the most pressing was to radicalize or moderate their strategies. They’re of course not the only agents in this story, and the Left is not in total control of the situation. But the ultimate outcome of the decisions taken at this critical moment was the evacuation of the working class from left structures and a weakening of labor more broadly.

There are clashes over what to do about economic restructuring and automation, participation in management structures and government, and media and communication technologies. An older generation of self-educated industrial worker activists rub up against a younger generation of educated, often white-collar members, each with different views on priorities and conduct. I mainly focus on the main electoral parties of the Left because they were the main organizations that workers joined and voted for at the time, and the ones that shaped how millions of people thought about the world. The radical left had sparser influence even if they suffered a broadly similar outcome.

In brief, the West European left went into decline not because of an unstoppable neoliberalism and a weakened manufacturing-based economy, but because it failed to recognize and mobilize new constituencies of workers, including migrants and women, and instead embraced a kind of “third way” social capitalism."

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/european-socialism-left-1970s-defeat

#Europe #Socialism #WorkersMovement #ClassStruggle #ThirdWay

"I try to show that the Left in Europe, both the radical and the institutional, was caught in a bind by the strategies of employers, conservative political forces, and elements of the state. In both cases they were forced to choose between unappealing options. Perhaps the most pressing was to radicalize or moderate their strategies. They’re of course not the only agents in this story, and the Left is not in total control of the situation. But the ultimate outcome of the decisions taken at this critical moment was the evacuation of the working class from left structures and a weakening of labor more broadly.

There are clashes over what to do about economic restructuring and automation, participation in management structures and government, and media and communication technologies. An older generation of self-educated industrial worker activists rub up against a younger generation of educated, often white-collar members, each with different views on priorities and conduct. I mainly focus on the main electoral parties of the Left because they were the main organizations that workers joined and voted for at the time, and the ones that shaped how millions of people thought about the world. The radical left had sparser influence even if they suffered a broadly similar outcome.

In brief, the West European left went into decline not because of an unstoppable neoliberalism and a weakened manufacturing-based economy, but because it failed to recognize and mobilize new constituencies of workers, including migrants and women, and instead embraced a kind of “third way” social capitalism."

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/european-socialism-left-1970s-defeat

#Europe #Socialism #WorkersMovement #ClassStruggle #ThirdWay

"I try to show that the Left in Europe, both the radical and the institutional, was caught in a bind by the strategies of employers, conservative political forces, and elements of the state. In both cases they were forced to choose between unappealing options. Perhaps the most pressing was to radicalize or moderate their strategies. They’re of course not the only agents in this story, and the Left is not in total control of the situation. But the ultimate outcome of the decisions taken at this critical moment was the evacuation of the working class from left structures and a weakening of labor more broadly.

There are clashes over what to do about economic restructuring and automation, participation in management structures and government, and media and communication technologies. An older generation of self-educated industrial worker activists rub up against a younger generation of educated, often white-collar members, each with different views on priorities and conduct. I mainly focus on the main electoral parties of the Left because they were the main organizations that workers joined and voted for at the time, and the ones that shaped how millions of people thought about the world. The radical left had sparser influence even if they suffered a broadly similar outcome.

In brief, the West European left went into decline not because of an unstoppable neoliberalism and a weakened manufacturing-based economy, but because it failed to recognize and mobilize new constituencies of workers, including migrants and women, and instead embraced a kind of “third way” social capitalism."

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/european-socialism-left-1970s-defeat

#Europe #Socialism #WorkersMovement #ClassStruggle #ThirdWay

"I try to show that the Left in Europe, both the radical and the institutional, was caught in a bind by the strategies of employers, conservative political forces, and elements of the state. In both cases they were forced to choose between unappealing options. Perhaps the most pressing was to radicalize or moderate their strategies. They’re of course not the only agents in this story, and the Left is not in total control of the situation. But the ultimate outcome of the decisions taken at this critical moment was the evacuation of the working class from left structures and a weakening of labor more broadly.

There are clashes over what to do about economic restructuring and automation, participation in management structures and government, and media and communication technologies. An older generation of self-educated industrial worker activists rub up against a younger generation of educated, often white-collar members, each with different views on priorities and conduct. I mainly focus on the main electoral parties of the Left because they were the main organizations that workers joined and voted for at the time, and the ones that shaped how millions of people thought about the world. The radical left had sparser influence even if they suffered a broadly similar outcome.

In brief, the West European left went into decline not because of an unstoppable neoliberalism and a weakened manufacturing-based economy, but because it failed to recognize and mobilize new constituencies of workers, including migrants and women, and instead embraced a kind of “third way” social capitalism."

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/european-socialism-left-1970s-defeat

#Europe #Socialism #WorkersMovement #ClassStruggle #ThirdWay

"I try to show that the Left in Europe, both the radical and the institutional, was caught in a bind by the strategies of employers, conservative political forces, and elements of the state. In both cases they were forced to choose between unappealing options. Perhaps the most pressing was to radicalize or moderate their strategies. They’re of course not the only agents in this story, and the Left is not in total control of the situation. But the ultimate outcome of the decisions taken at this critical moment was the evacuation of the working class from left structures and a weakening of labor more broadly.

There are clashes over what to do about economic restructuring and automation, participation in management structures and government, and media and communication technologies. An older generation of self-educated industrial worker activists rub up against a younger generation of educated, often white-collar members, each with different views on priorities and conduct. I mainly focus on the main electoral parties of the Left because they were the main organizations that workers joined and voted for at the time, and the ones that shaped how millions of people thought about the world. The radical left had sparser influence even if they suffered a broadly similar outcome.

In brief, the West European left went into decline not because of an unstoppable neoliberalism and a weakened manufacturing-based economy, but because it failed to recognize and mobilize new constituencies of workers, including migrants and women, and instead embraced a kind of “third way” social capitalism."

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/european-socialism-left-1970s-defeat

#Europe #Socialism #WorkersMovement #ClassStruggle #ThirdWay

On April 6, 1980, the #Canadian #Farmworkers #Union came into existence. This film documents the conditions among #Chinese and #EastIndian #ImmigrantWorkers in #BritishColumbia that provoked the formation of the union, and the response of growers and #labour contractors to the threat of #unionization. Made over a period of two years, the #documentary film is eloquent testimony to the progress of the #WorkersMovement from the first stirrings of militancy to the energetic canvassing of union members.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/time-to-rise/

#CanadianImmigrants #BCHistory #CanadianHistory #UnionStrong #Solidarity #Racism #EmployerExploitation #WorkersRights

In 57 Languages, US Meatpackers #Strike for the First Time in 40 Years
#WorkersMovement #workersrights
https://labornotes.org/2026/03/57-languages-meatpackers-strike-first-time-40-years

Trade unions, activists, and politicians met in Brussels to build resistance to Europe’s militarization and imperialist path.
#peace #workersmovement #antiimperialism
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/03/19/we-cannot-eat-grenades-once-the-grains-no-longer-grow-european-peace-movements-organize-against-militarization/

Ecuadorian workers fight back against 10-hour workday
The Noboa administration advanced a decree which mandated an increase of hours in the workday. It was resoundingly rejected on the streets, with many committing to further action.
#WorkersMovement #workersrights
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/03/18/ecuadorian-workers-fight-back-against-10-hour-workday/

300 million on the streets in a historic national strike in India. The #strike was called jointly by the worker unions and farmers groups to demand the withdrawal of the anti-people policies, such as the four new labor codes and the recently signed trade deals with the US and the EU. #workersmovement
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/12/300-million-on-the-streets-in-a-historic-national-strike-in-india/

“Dockers don’t work for war”. Workers in more than 20 Mediterranean ports will take coordinated action on February 6 to oppose war and militarization. #WorkersMovement #internationalism #solidarity
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/30/dockworkers-in-mediterranean-ports-announce-coordinated-action-against-war/

Bringing back an episode we did with For A New Republic Podcast to talk about Trump, fascism, and rebuilding the workers' movement in the United States. For a New Republic is the official podcast of Éirígí For A New Republic, an Irish socialist republican party that seeks the reunification of Ireland and the establishment of a workers' republic. 

#fascism #trump #maga #workersmovement #socialist #eirigi
#community

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-regrettable-century/id1439945899?i=1000709149357

Amazon workers in British Columbia have won Union certification. #WorkersMovement
#MakeAmazonPay
https://mronline.org/2025/07/22/amazon-workers-in-b-c-have-won-union-certification/

Co-operation Among Co-operators: Reflections from a Cross-Border Conference in Belfast. The ‘Co-operation between Co-operators’ joint conference in Belfast marks the first time in a generation that the Irish and British co-operative societies have collaborated, with the aim of transforming society through the dissemination of ideas around economic democracy. #Cooperatives #WorkersMovement #Capitalism
https://www.rundale.org/2025/05/29/co-operation-among-co-operators-reflections-from-a-cross-border-conference-in-belfast/

@kabrams You may find interesting this collection on the #WorkersMovement in #China and its century-long #dialectic with the #ChineseCommunistParty ( #CCP ).

#ProletarianChina #CenturyOfChineseLabour

https://madeinchinajournal.com/2021/12/01/proletarian-china/

Second thing exciting to me this morning: oral history from a worker at a Honda plant in China.

http://chuangcn.org/journal/two/the-awakening-of-lin-xiaocao/

When I visited Guangzhou in 2014 with a group of Japanese labor activists/scholars before Xi's crack down, we met with workers, activists, scholars, and one or two sympathetic officials of the local branch of the official, state-controlled union. Broken up and driven underground now, but Germinal-like, still working & organizing.

#China
#workersmovement
#RankAndFile

Organisational Innovations Among US Worker Centres: Lessons learned from the Street Vendor Project in New York City #WorkersMovement #WorkersInquiry #NotesFromBelow
https://notesfrombelow.org/article/organisational-innovations-among-us-worker-centres

Organisational Innovations Among US Worker Centres: Lessons learned from the Street Vendor Project in New York City #WorkersMovement #WorkersInquiry #NotesFromBelow
https://notesfrombelow.org/article/organisational-innovations-among-us-worker-centres

On April 6, 1980, the #Canadian #Farmworkers #Union came into existence. This film documents the conditions among #Chinese and #EastIndian #ImmigrantWorkers in #BritishColumbia that provoked the formation of the union, and the response of growers and #labour contractors to the threat of #unionization. Made over a period of two years, the #documentary film is eloquent testimony to the progress of the #WorkersMovement from the first stirrings of militancy to the energetic canvassing of union members.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/time-to-rise/

#CanadianImmigrants #BCHistory #CanadianHistory #UnionStrong #Solidarity #Racism #EmployerExploitation #WorkersRights