#WorkersOfTheWorldUnite
#AnarchoSyndicalism

#MayDay (May 1st) is 'Labor Day'!

#RememberHaymarket

The 1st Monday in September is #LaborAppeasementDay!

#NoWarButClassWar

The Brief Origins of May Day
By Eric Chase

https://archive.iww.org/history/library/misc/origins_of_mayday/

@tigerdaz @Radical_EgoCom
You are probably thinking of Valve Corporation, for one example. They moved to a flat, non-hierarchical organization and it's been interesting to watch. Still a capitalist corporate entity though.

A syndicate is a self-organized group for conducting a particular business or production. It can be the Mob or Lloyd's of London insurers or a worker's collective.

#Syndicalism is kind of the more radical side of international trade unionism. #AnarchoSyndicalism takes the self-organizing principle farther as a replacement for capitalism rather than as a balancing factor, and philosophizes about the nature of property and industrialization.

Interest in the area seems to be skewing into #solarPunk territory which seems like a natural progression to me.

The #fediverse is a fine case study for how difficult and amazing decentralized and federated social institutions can be. Here we are, working out some of the necessary skills for #Transition communities, including the economics.

It's complicated stuff and still just nascent, but look at the crazy complexity of the laws in nation-states, civil powers, municipalities. We will improve on that by removing economic and moral compulsions.

#directAction #decentralization #liberation #IWW

✨ INTERESTS ✨

GENERAL:
🐯Animals / zoology ~ 📀Animash & AMVs ~ 🎞Animation / #cartoons ~ 🧬Anthropomorphism ~ 🖍Coloring books ~ 🐾#Furry fandom history ~ 💨Inflatable toys ~ 🐈Louis Wain ~ 🧸Stuffed toys ~ 🎨Visual art ~ 🌐Web 1.0 & #html ~ 🦕Paleontology & evolution ~ 🏳️‍🌈Queer / gay / trans history

MEDIA:
🎡Bob’s Burgers ~ 🥦Count Duckula ~ 🧨Dan Vs. ~ 🦆Disknee duck comics / media ~ 💰Ducktales 2017 ~ 👣H3 Podcast ~ 🐩Housebroken ~ 🐿️Kiff ~ 🛍Littlest Pet Shop 2012 ~ 🦄My Little Pony ( FIM ) ~ ☀️ Phineas & Ferb ~ 🦆🐓🦜The Three Caballeros ~ 🐺Wolfwalkers ~ ⚫️101 Dalmatian Street

IDEOLOGY:
#anarchism #anarchoSyndicalism #mutualism #anarchoQueer #greenAnarchism #solarPunk #landBack #sustainability #animalWelfare #abolition ( of police, prisons, etc. ) #remixculture ( note: i do not necessarily know enough about All of these to say where i stand, but i definitely wish to learn more about them. )

Today in Labor History August 22, 1978: The Sandinistas captured the Nicaraguan National Palace launching the Sandinista revolution. The red and black symbolism on the flags of the modern Sandinistas, as well as Sandino’s movement in the 1930s, came from the anarchosyndicalists. Sandino spent much of the 1920s working with Mexican anarchosyndicalists, including the IWW.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #sandinistas #nicarague #IWW #anarchism #anarchosyndicalism #mexico #Revolution

If you are one of those who blames the players and not the game, YOU are the problem!

#ChangeTheGame

#AbolishCapitalism
#AbolishTheState
#NoGodsNoMasters

#BertrandRussell preferred #AnarchoSyndicalism!

BOOK REC FOR TODAAAY:

https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=162

One of the best books about the intersection of activism and music I've ever read.

#StraightEdge #sxe #HardcorePunk #StraightEdgeHardcore #Communism #AnarchoSyndicalism #Socialism #GabrielKuhn

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2307/S00164/auckland-bus-drivers-strike-free-fares-for-matariki-as-protest-continues.htm

#Auckland #IndustrialAction: #BusDrivers giving free rides

#Strikes the way they should be done - taking control of the workplace.

#union #UnionStrong #capitalism #NewZealand #strike #AnarchoSyndicalism

Here's the latest excerpt from my ongoing translation of Rudolf Rocker's memoirs. As promised a few weeks ago, this is the one where he is sent to an orphanage. His father died when he was five, and his mother remarried, but then she died when he was around 12 or 13. He continued living with his step-father, along with his younger brother and maternal grandmother, but once his increasingly abusive stepdad started a new relationship, the rest of them were out.

His stories from the orphanage are pretty interesting; this excerpt is just the beginning. Suffice to say that Rocker wasn't exactly a model resident and the guy who ran the orphanage really had his hands full with him. More on that later...

Anyways, enjoy!

https://joseph-k.medium.com/rocker-is-sent-to-an-orphanage-577e79f13f94

#rudolfrocker #anarchism #anarchosyndicalism #syndicalism

Picket against union repression at the Balneario de la Concepción.
https://cntaitalbacete.es/2023/07/sindical-piquete-contra-la-represion-sindical-en-el-balneario-de-la-concepcion/

On Sunday, July 2, a group of comrades from the Various Trades Union of the CNT-AIT of Albacete gathered in front of the gates of the Balneario de la Concepción to carry out an information picket about the labour situation and the conflicts arising from it, which the workers of the Trade Union Section of this company maintain with the management.

Through this direct action, we demanded the reinstatement of a colleague dismissed for exercising his right to freedom of association, and also the immediate challenge of the suspension of employment and pay of a colleague sanctioned for the same reason. During the picket, information leaflets on the conflicts were read out and distributed to workers and clients. "If you don't fight, nobody listens to you" and "READMISSION FOR FIRED COMPANION" were some of the slogans that resounded at the door of the spa, repeated by the CNT-AIT militant solidarity, who spent about an hour without stopping to denounce the outrages committed by the company.

#CNTAIT #anarchosyndicalism

Here's the latest installment of my ongoing translation of Rudolf Rocker's memoirs. In honor of Independence (for White, Land-Owning Men) Day in the US, I've jumped out of sequence and posted an excerpt that I actually translated quite a few years ago. This is taken from a version of the memoirs that was published in Germany in the 1970s, but with lots of stuff cut out (which is why there are ellipses all over this thing). As the title implies, it's about anarchism in France in the early 20th c. and anarchists' demand for something more than bourgeois democracy.

As ever, please note that this is a draft, and may be further edited, revised, or chopped up before the final book version is published at some unknown time in the future by @pmpress. If this seems like a valuable project that you'd like to support, you are welcome to drop me a few bucks at the link below.

Without further ado, here it is: https://joseph-k.medium.com/rocker-on-the-anarchist-movement-in-france-ca28e5cd5f74

Fundraiser: https://gofund.me/37ad4bf6

#rudolfrocker #anarchism #syndicalism #anarchosyndicalism #Paris #France #translation #memoirs #Proudhon

Here's the latest installment of my ongoing translation of Rudolf Rocker's memoirs. In honor of Independence (for White, Land-Owning Men) Day in the US, I've jumped out of sequence and posted an excerpt that I actually translated quite a few years ago. This is taken from a version of the memoirs that was published in Germany in the 1970s, but with lots of stuff cut out (which is why there are ellipses all over this thing). As the title implies, it's about anarchism in France in the early 20th c. and their demand for something more than bourgeois democracy.

As ever, please note that this is a draft, and may be further edited, revised, or chopped up before the final book version is published at some unknown time in the future by @pmpress. If this seems like a valuable project that you'd like to support, you are welcome to drop me a few bucks at the link below.

Without further ado, here it is: https://joseph-k.medium.com/rocker-on-the-anarchist-movement-in-france-ca28e5cd5f74

Fundraiser: https://gofund.me/37ad4bf6

#rudolfrocker #anarchism #syndicalism #anarchosyndicalism #Paris #France #translation #memoirs #Proudhon

'Direct Action', by Émile Pouget
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-pouget-direct-action

"Direct Action... means that the working class, in constant rebellion against the existing state of affairs, expects nothing from outside people, powers or forces, but rather creates its own conditions of struggle and looks to itself for its means of action."

#syndicalism #DirectAction #anarchosyndicalism #union #ClassStruggle

Here's the latest installment from my ongoing translation of Rudolf Rocker's memoirs. This section is Rocker’s heartbreaking account of the death of his mother, when Rocker was only about 12 or 13 years old (ca. 1886). Last week, I posted a brief excerpt about the death of his father, when Rocker was five, so at this point, he’s an orphan from a poor family. Next week, I’ll most likely start posting passages from his tumultuous period in an orphanage in Mainz, Germany.

As ever, if you find these useful or interesting, please consider supporting the fundraiser I’ve set up for this project (link below). The source text is a 2,000-page manuscript, and it’s a lot of work. I think it’s interesting and useful, which helps, but it still takes a whole lot of time, so your support would really be helpful.

Last thing: I’d like to mention again that these excerpts are drafts. They will still need to be revised further before publication in book form by @pmpress whenever this is all done. If you notice anything off or suspicious, I’d be grateful if you let me know, but please be nice about it.

https://joseph-k.medium.com/the-death-of-rockers-mother-77ce5bcfe9a

Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/translation-the-memoirs-of-rudolf-rocker

#RudolfRocker, #anarchism, #anarchosyndicalism

No war but classwar! :antifa_100:

#classwar #australia #asfiwa #asf #anarchosyndicalism #antifa #ausgov #politas #activism #humanrights #vicpol #vicgov #cntait #cnt

https://asf-iwa.org.au/cnt-exiles-in-melbourne-and-the-1973-strike-at-ford-broadmeadows/

Here's the second excerpt from my ongoing translation of Rudolf Rocker's memoirs. This one is rather short, and it's about his recollection of his father's death when Rocker was five years old.

This project will ultimately be turned into a book to be published by @pmpress. If it looks interesting to you, feel free to throw a few ducats my way (link below). It's a massive undertaking to pare down the 2,000+ manuscript pages Rocker typed up, sculpt it into a meaningful, readable text, and translate it. Any support would be gratefully appreciated.

https://joseph-k.medium.com/the-death-of-rockers-father-b1a4014a7918

https://gofund.me/37ad4bf6

#RudolfRocker, #anarchism, #anarchosyndicalism, #Mainz, #translation, #memoirs

After years of delays, I am once and for all plowing through what I think will be an fairly important and meaningful project: translating Rudolf Rocker's memoirs for @pmpress.

For the uninitiated, Rocker (1873–1958) was a labor organizer, orator, and leading early theorist of anarcho-syndicalism. His contribution to both anarchism and labor organizing was tremendous, yet the only substantive text about his life that is available in English is The London Years, which is an excellent book, but it only covers a relatively brief period of his life. The project I'm working on will fill in a lot more details about his commitment to the social democrats in his youth (at a time when social democracy was illegal in Germany), his disillusionment with party politics, his discovery of anarchism, and his repeated flight from various countries in Western Europe, among other things.

The full manuscript clocks in at some 2,000+ typewritten pages, so I am studiously reading the whole thing and editing it in the hope of producing a book that will be somewhere between 300-500 pages. So far, I've gotten through about the first 300 pages, or ~15% of the total.

I plan on posting draft excerpts on Medium no less than once a week to keep people up to speed on the progress I'm making, to keep myself accountable, and to hopefully generate some interest in what I think will be a valuable and meaningful text. The first installment is at the link below.

However, this project is a ton of work, so if you've got a few ducats lying around and you don't know what to do with them, I'd be grateful if you would kick in a small donation at the link below.

Please pass it on! More soon...

The first installment:
https://joseph-k.medium.com/introducing-the-memoirs-of-rudolf-rocker-5f8ecb1a1423

The fundraiser:
https://gofund.me/37ad4bf6

#rudolfrocker #anarchism #syndicalism #anarchosyndicalism #Mainz #translation #memoirs

Same message, less well known song.

https://youtu.be/ruZNvy0F7N4

🎵Every official that comes in
Cripples us leaves us maimed
Silent and tamed
And with our flesh and bones
He builds his homes🎵

#fascism #socialism #anarchosyndicalism #fuckyouiwontdowhatyoutellme

🎵Some of those that work forces,

Are the same that burn crosses🎵

...is a warning not to await a savior from within the capitalist plutocratic state to do what can only be done through solidarity, resistance, and unwaivering conviction.

Especially one of any privilege the status quo has afforded them to rise to power.

#fascism #socialism #anarchosyndicalism #fuckyouiwontdowhatyoutellme

#Anarchism #Anarchosyndicalism #Antifascism #Spain #SinDios #Mayday #1936

https://youtu.be/cd3aqZbpRV0

This one's a song composed by a Finnish-American artist by the name of T-Bone Slim.

I think a huge chunk of Finnish history is kinda lost to us, as over here we're not always aware of how Finnish migrants fared overseas after each emigration push.

Especially the one after our civil war.

But quite a large number of them were wobblies, which makes me happy. :3

#IWW #Wobblies #Anarchosyndicalism #Unions #Finland #Finnish #MayDay #Strike #Socialism #Syndicalism

https://youtu.be/QNSq0dBmWuY