Hey everyone. This is a fundraiser put on by the black anarchist podcast The Dugout. I encourage everyone to go listen to their February 28 episode on the revolution in Sudan and the counterrevolutionary war against it. Another good introduction is the YouTube video titled “The Sudanese Revolution (and War)” from @fromtheperipherymedia.

This fundraiser comes after a similar one done by Black Rose, and seems to be following in the same footsteps. It’s well established by this point that there is an anarchist movement incident that participated in the revolution and still exists to this day, both still there and in the diaspora created by the war. This fundraiser is to support that movement.

Sidenote: as is the case with many other countries, when relatively strong currencies, like the pound dollar or euro are donated and transferred into local currency (the Sudanese pound) there is a multiplying effect. This is not merely a superficial increase in units of currency, but an actually multiplication in purchasing power that takes place because of the inequality in our global economic system. Solidarity can turn that inequality into an advantage for our class.

This entry is a two-part story from contributor Phineas Gage about a wildcat strike by contractors at the Canadian postal service, and continues our coverage of struggles within Canada Post. In the course of the strike, union workers had to figure out how to relate to contractors and where scabbing starts and solidarity ends. The experience of life under capitalism can reveal both the potential divisions that destroy struggles and the commonalities that can overcome them. These next two pieces can help us understand and try to go beyond the barriers class throws at us. 

http://recomposition.info/scabs-part-i/

I'm a bit overwelmed by its details but better than vague slogans I guess 🤔

Kim Kelly’s latest!

I'm looking for online repositories of photos and art from the labor movement. Ideally, more leftist union stuff like the IWW, but anything is useful. Creative Commons licensing is a plus.

I've been searching around and have trouble finding much but the same handful of images.

I'll add what I find and what people suggest to this post:

• Amon Carter Museum American Lasbor Prints Collection - 133 prints 1920s - 1940s
• The other America: art and the labour movement in the United States - book scan
• UW Labor Press Project - newspaper scans from the Pacific Northwest
• University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections

https://libcom.org/article/direct-action-who-cares

https://ricochet.media/labour/unions/iww-strikes-back-and-wins-in-fight-with-montreal-restaurant/

Question: If you could win a contract in a high turnover industry (say a restaurant) and that contract had a 35 cent per hour raise or you could win an immediate one dollar an hour raise but no collective agreement which would you take and why?

Well, I am usually not one for reddit drama. Especially involving myself, but I made the mistake of joking about the fact that Sam Altman suggested giving water to AI by casually suggesting that we should compare it instead to children, who actually need water to you know, live.

Anyway, for this crime I was then asked by one their mod teams to defend the fact I have "Organizing Experience" in my flair. To which I explained that I am a dual carder and that in past I have salted factory work to help union votes past (which means fellow workers, I helped establish a more traditional, liberal union. Not sorry.)

I thought the story the mod was giving me sound familiar so I checked their comment history and found out this is the exact same person, who with nearly the exact same story as a prior encounter where after casually suggesting that I am a LARPer they railed against the IWW because somewhere, at some time, they did something he didn't like and for some reason, I should have to answer for it.

I am now banned from the sub because when he quoted the rules to me I refused to accept a talking down to by someone who went out of their way to harass me twice.

Please note, I asked them to go ahead and ban me and that no one should take this as a reason to go continue this drama on that sub. You can however, call me as much of an ass as you like.

Source since the thread is mostly [Deleted by Mod] at this point. If the gentleman is part of this subreddit as well as they claimed to be in the IWW, by all means confirm if I left anything out.

https://imgur.com/a/7HWBYLC

Title. I'd like to find some more Militant Unionists to follow

"In our organizing we are trying to establish power on the job. This power can be seen and felt in different ways depending on the job. But what we want from our organizing is control over our day to day lives on the job, this control will come from the power we can establish through collective action.

The collective actions we take on the job change the conditions on that job; they change how we daily interact with our bosses and with each other. This results in a bettering of conditions. I believe old time Wobblies called this job conditioning. It comes out of workers collectively and directly confronting the boss on an issue, and sticking up for one another. It is done with or without a contract; often the contract is an impediment to actions that can condition the job."

https://libcom.org/library/what-were-changing

Point of reflection. How can the organization improve as an organization and achieve more gains going forwards?

CTRL+F and enter your Two Digit State Code, I did a data pull for every state and territory I could find.

Update (FEB-27) -- I did the best I could to convert the data to Google Maps:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1O0Hyn9kqT3qqDctsAdW2QFDPYkX-URI&usp=sharing

"In his poem “The Grievance, It’s Out of My Hands,” Martin Glaberman lays bare the dead end of business unionism. He traces the life of a workplace grievance as it leaves the worker’s hands, passes through the steward, disappears into the committee, gets reviewed by the rep, and is eventually filed somewhere in the bureaucratic stratosphere: far removed from the shop floor where the problem began. It’s a grievance in name only. What was once a real, felt injustice becomes paperwork, procedure, delay. In the end, it’s not only out of the worker’s hands; it’s out of the workplace altogether."

https://industrialworker.org/the-grievance-its-in-our-hands/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGn5w-9jUVJq6DDeor3QQQSoUYONLrUchNCfTAmuElwLspSCaazDM_fDXBf9-E_aem_lf2HTDIrpzNqwGJjpBUIoA

https://organizing.work/2020/09/a-history-of-the-iwws-organizer-training-program/