Collection of letters, articles and responses mostly from the IWW's Industrial Worker around the 'Direct Unionism' discussion paper.
Previous entries on this debate include:
-Direct Unionism: A Discussion Paper
-A response to 'Direct Unionism: A Discussion Paper' Parts 1 & 2
-A member of Black Orchid Collective's 'Response to “Direct Unionism: A Discussion Paper”'
-Counterpoint: Response To Juan Conatz’s Take On “Direct Unionism”
A reportback of a IWW picket in Minneapolis of Chicago-Lake Liquors, which fired 5 organizers in April 2013. More information can be found...
Theorie Communiste’s analysis of the December 2008 Greek riots.
Steven Johns' detailed account of how the union has handled the recent dispute over pensions. It sheds light on the role unions play in contemporary society, and argues that if ever us workers...
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Comments
Thanks for posting these up (Juan, I presume).
Yeah, cheers.. I'm feeling a bit ill and just read it all. Really good stuff!
Cool stuff, might be worth adding the original paper up there too?
http://libcom.org/library/direct-unionism-discussion-paper-09052011
Just wanted to say thanks to Juan for getting the initial ball rolling of conversation in print about the direct unionism discussion paper and Chili for pushing folk to write letters on this. Aside from the contents of the debate, I've been pleased to see back and forth about vision and values in the Industrial Worker like this.