1. Against the Current
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1986
   Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
2. Almanac Singers
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   Group of American folk musicians specialized in topical songs, especially songs connected with union organizing.
3. Battle in Nicaragua's Maquiladoras
   Against The Current vol. 87
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2000
   Nicaragua has only one major "free trade zone," Las Mercedes, and unlike the rest of Central America, half of the workers there have managed to build unions. Recently the zone management and the Labor Ministry are helping employers to implement a variety of union-busting actions:
4. Beating Back the Corporate Attack 
   Socialism and the struggle for global justice
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2000
   Our movement is calling for a new direction -- for democratic control of our political life, and for democratic control over the most important aspects of the economy. Why should handful of the super-rich run the planet, and, moreover, run it into the ground?
5. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 1, Number 3
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1976
   
6. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
7. Capitalism and the National Question in Canada
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1972
   Essays examining a variety of questions about Canada's past, from a Marxist perspective.
8. La Causa
   The California Grape Strike
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1970
   A documentary of the California grape workers' strike.
9. The Chinese Working Women's Network
   Against The Current vol. 113
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2004
   There is no doubt that China is growing rapidly in importance in the global economy. China has now surpassed the United States as the largest destination in the world for foreign investment. While many U.S. businesses (and other multinationals) look eagerly to both the large Chinese market and the very low wages of Chinese workers, the U.S. labor movement has been focused on stopping the flow of U.S. production and jobs to China.
10. Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
11. Cleaners' Action Newsletter
    Periodical profile published 1979
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    Cleaner's Action is a monthly newspaper published in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
12. Columbia's Paramilitary Politics
    Against The Current vol. 135
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    In a surprise move in the early morning of May 13th, Colombian President Álvaro Uríbe announced the extradition of fourteen top paramilitary leaders to the United States, where they are charged with cocaine trafficking and money laundering. His move has provoked an outcry from victims’ and human rights groups, who fear that the extraditions will undercut efforts to hold the paramilitaries accountable for massacres, disappearances, torture, extra-judicial executions, and the displacement of thousands of people in Colombia.
13. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
14. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
15. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
16. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    
17. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
18. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
19. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
20. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
21. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
22. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
    
23. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
    
24. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
    
25. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
26. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
27. Critique of Syndicalist Methods
    Trade-Unionism to Anarcho-Syndicalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1998
    Bonanno's 1975 meditation on the means to be used in pursuit of the anarchist project. Emphasizes the utility of unions in propagating capitalist control of industry and agriculture.
28. The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
    1845-1875
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    
29. Everyone on the Bus: Rider-Driver Alliances
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Kann sheds light on the increasingly desperate state of transit in Detroit as number and frequency of buses and entire routes are experiencing increasing cuts and riders join in a union with drivers to protest these affairs.
30. Facebook Facts
    Finding Friends and Foes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Unions and workers are making much use of the latest web fad: social networking sites. But are sites like Facebook really adding anything to our ability to organize? If yes, how, exactly? And where are the pitfalls in using online commercial sites for organizing?
31. Facing the Toyota "Pattern"
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Highly praised as a “breakthrough” in the mainstream and business press, the new United Auto Workers contract at General Motors is a stunning retreat for the union, threatening the existence of most high-paying production jobs throughout the U.S. auto industry. (Skilled trades face drastic downsizing through outsourcing and combining of the trades.)
32. Farmworker Movement Documentation Project
    The Farmworker Movement: 1962-1993: Primary source accounts by the UFW volunteers who built the movement
    Resource Type: Website
    The Farmworker Movement Documentation Project, founded in 2003 by LeRoy Chatfield, is a labor of love. The project seeks to compile and publish primary source accounts from the volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement during the period, 1962-1993.
33. Fighting for Union Autonomy: Mexican Miners On Strike
    Against The Current vol. 122
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    On April 20 eight hundred state and federal police launched an assault on 500 striking workers who had been occupying a steel mill in Lázaro Cárdenas. Two were killed, five seriously injured and 40 wounded. A video released to the press shows Michoacán police taking aim at the strikers.
34. The First Legal Russian Strike in a Decade
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The almsot month-long strike at the Ford-Vsevolozhsk assembly plant, a small plant near St. Petersburg, ended December 16 with an agreement that negotiations would resume. The strike began on November 17, 2007, after four months of talks failed to produce any result. In fact, Ford management had initially refused to hold negotiations “during or under the threat of strike.”
35. Getting Organized: Building a Union
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    See also CX2340.
    
36. Guide to taking strike action
    Tips and advice on how to effectively organise and carry out strike action at your workplace.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Our labour is the ultimate weapon that workers possess. Without workers bosses cannot make a profit. Strike action can be very powerful, but at the same time it, at the very least, reduces take home pay. More worryingly it may also lead to dismissal. Hardly, surprising therefore, that strike action is usually last resort taken of workers.
37. Harlan County USA 
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 1976
    An effort of 180 coal miners and their wives to strike for benefits at the Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky in 1973.
38. Having the Hard Conversations 
    Jane McAlevey on Fight for 15, labour's crisis of strategy, and the difference between organizing and mobilizing
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    An interview with labour organizer Jane McAlevey on labour's crisis of strategy and the difference between organizing and mobilizing. McAlevey discusses what ails the labour movement, problem with the terms "public" and "private" sector, and why we need to stop ignoring the rank-and-file.
39. How to Jump-Start Your Union
    Lessons from the Chicago Teachers
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    How to Jump-Start Your Union tells how activists transformed their union and gave members hope. Readers will learn how to run for office, work with their communities, build stewards' networks, train new leaders, run a contract campaign, and strike.
40. India: Why are Suzuki automobile workers in jail?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Why are automobile workers being jailed for murder? The story at Maruti is a familiar one in India's industrial scene.
41. An Interview with Patricia Campbell
    Against The Current vol. 123
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Patricia Campbell is President of the Irish Independent Workers Union (IWU), an independent trade union and social movement in both the north and south of Ireland. She is a deputy editor of the journal Fourthwrite, founded by a group of Irish Republicans most of whom are former political prisoners from the Republican movement.
42. Introduction to When the UAW Was Young
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    
43. It's Never Been Easy
    Essays on Modern Labor
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Most of the labor essays included here were written over the last seven years and appeared originally in various publications, including CounterPunch, The Exception Magazine, Liberalati, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, State of Nature, and Synthesis/Regeneration. This book is dedicated to working men and women everywhere, but particularly to the members of America's labor unions' those individuals who carry out the work, solve the problems, make it happen, but who, alas, rarely share in the treasure or glory.
44. Kicking Ass for the Working Class
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    There it was, staring at me from the AFL-CIO’s very own blog: a black sign with bold red letters saying “KICKING ASS FOR THE WORKING CLASS,” signed AFL-CIO. Surely they meant to say “working for,” or in SEIU-speak “uniting” “working families” or “working people” or some other euphemisms for struggle and class. Had the decline and split of organized labor pushed our otherwise moderate business union leaders to new extremes?
45. Killer Coke Exposed
    Against The Current vol. 135
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    In their September-October 2006 Against the Current (ATC 124) article “The Real Life Side of Coke,” Camilo Romero and Leslie Gill documented the growing movement of students and labor organizations that developed as a response to calls for international solidarity by victims of torture and intimidation at Coke bottling plants in Colombia starting in the 1990s. Joe Zacune wrote in the same issue about a movement of communities in India fighting to preserve their water and their health from a series of infractions on Coke’s part.
46. The "Labor Aristocracy" and Working-Class Struggles: Consciousness in Flux, Part 2
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Whatever the theoretical and empirical problems with the economics of the labor aristocracy thesis, its defenders still claim that well paid workers have generally been more reformist and conservative in their politics than lower paid workers. They point to the example of mostly white New York City construction workers ("hardhats") attacking antiwar demonstrators in the Spring of 1970; and contrast them with the militancy and progressive politics of some of the recent "Justice for Janitors" campaigns.
47. Labor on the Ropes
    Against The Current vol. 135
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    In U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition, Kim Moody focuses on why the organized labor movement went into decline and points to potential signs of revival. The author’s explanation begins with the worsening economic situation in the 1970s and a harsher anti-union climate, both politically and in the workplace, as “business refined its ability to act as a class.”
48. Labor Politics in Action, 1901-1911: The Union Labor Party of San Francisco
    Against The Current vol. 81
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    In 1900 San Francisco had an organized labor movement that reflected the unique development of this metropolis of the West. San Francisco did not experience the slow and steady growth of Chicago and other cities of the plains, but became a city overnight in 1850 when thousands of gold seekers poured in from the East and every part of Europe, and beyond.
49. Labor Scores at Verizon
    Against The Current vol. 89
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    On August 6 87,000 members of the Communication Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) struck Verizon Communications in twelve states from Maine to Virginia, and the District of Columbia. At the heart of the strike was the unions' attempt to maintain wall to wall unionization in an industry which is rapidly changing, to strengthen job security for workers in the wake of a national merger, and to fight the spread of lean production. The three-year contract we won represents a major victory on all of these issues.
50. The Labor Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
51. Labor's Disaster at American Axle
    Against The Current vol. 137
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The 87-day strike earlier this year at American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM) ended in a rout that has devastating implications for the organized U.S. labor movement. Begun on a snowy morning early February 26, the strike ended on May 22, a late spring day just before the Memorial Day weekend.
52. Labor's Giant Step
    The First Twenty Years of the CIO: 1936–55
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1964   Published: 1972
    The story of the explosive labor struggles and political battles in the 1930s that built the industrial unions.
53. Let's Get to Work
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Instead of asking "What is to be done?", we could start with a different question: "What should I do?" As it turns out, the right-wing hecklers we've all encountered are half right: we should get jobs. And then we should do what we tell workers to do all the time: organize our workplaces. This tactic has a name and a history. It's called "salting." Salting has deep roots in the history of the labour movement and the Left.
54. Life After Death for Labor?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    A review of Stanley Aronowitz's book "The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers’ Movement."
55. Life Support for Labor?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Debate Over how to save the labour movement suffers from a serious deficit of books written by organizers. Rarely do we get an entire book by someone who has been organizing for four decades, and is still actively engaged with union members, staff and leaders.
56. Live Working or Die Fighting 
    How the Working Class Went Global
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    Mason relates a series of struggles for worker and human rights over the past two hundred years and compares them to current struggles.
57. The Making of Jericho Road
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
58. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
59. Mapping UFW Strikes, Boycotts, and Farm Worker Actions 1965-1975
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    When ethnic Mexican farm workers led by Cesar Chavez joined with Filipino American workers led by Larry Itliong in 1965 to strike grape growers in Delano, California, the modern farm workers movement was born. Operating initially as the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and later as the UFW, the union spread beyond California as it launched a national grape boycott and inspired farm worker organizing in other states. Researched by Katie Anastas, these maps show the geography of UFW activism, locating more than 1,000 farm worker strikes, boycotts, and other actions.
60. A Marxist History of the World part 102: What is neoliberalism?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The ‘free-market’ theory provides a pseudo-scientific justification for the greed and poverty endemic to the system, and the main beneficiaries are the global mega-corporations of neoliberal capitalism.
61. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
62. A Militant, "Minority" Union?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    At the AFL-CI0 convention in Los Angeles in September 2013, a small group of rank-and-file workers managed to alter the convention agenda -- by threatening to protest the presence of Kaiser Permanente, which happens to be their employer.
63. Mining History Written in Blood
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Domestic coal mining history above and below ground lives on the pages of Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction edited by Wess Harris (PM Press, 2017). The anthology unpacks the industry, people and communities of a coal-rich region, amplifying relevant class and gender issues over a century.
64. Morris Slavin: 1913-2006
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Morris Slavin, a historian of the French Revolution and one of the last remaining veterans of the American Trotskyist movement of the early 1930s, died on February 6 in Denver, Colorado, at the age of 92. The vast majority of Slavin's years were spent in Youngstown, Ohio, but his childhood took place in Russia.
65. The Newsletter #2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973
    
66. NYU: Nerds on Strike!
    Against The Current vol. 120
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    On November 9, 2005, graduate student employees at New York University (NYU) put down their red pens and picked up their picket signs. After a 2004 ruling by a Bush- appointed majority of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the NYU administration seized the opportunity to refuse to recognize and renegotiate with the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC)/ UAW Local 2110.
67. Organizing a Union
    Resource Type: Audio
    First Published: 1976
    The procedures for obtaining certification from the Labour Relations Board.
68. Organizing for Workers' Power!
    Resource Type: Article
    Allan Engler, author of Economic Democracy, critiques segments of the left for largely ignoring working class power. Recognizing that social change can only be carried through by the working class, Engler puts forth a series of demands designed to facilitate solidarity and comraderie with and among workers.
69. Organizing Immigrant Labour
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Barriers to unionizing the smelter workers of Trail, British Columbia, during the Second World War.
70. Organizing Unions
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    How to form or build a union. Shows how to strength organizing drives by responding to the concerns of all workers, including women, immigrant workers, people of colour, workers with disabilities, lebians and gay men, and part-time and casual workers.
71. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
    Organizing
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work toward common goals, collectively. That requires organizing. Power gives way only when it is challenged by powerful movements for change, and movements grow out of organizing. In this newsletter, we feature a number of articles, books, and other organizing resources.
72. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
    Urban agriculture and local food production
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
73. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 5, 2015
    Ecosocialism, environment, and urban gardening
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    This issue of Other Voices covers a wide range of issues, from the climate crisis and the ecosocialist response, to terrorism and the struggle against religious fundamentalism, as well as items on urban gardening, the destruction of olive trees, and how the police are able to use Google's timeline feature to track you every move, now and years into the past.
74. The Press and the Class Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Early on the morning of August 19, 1997, the U.S. labor movement experienced something it had rarely known in recent years: a victory on a national scale. After two weeks out on strike, over 185,000 members of the Teamsters Union had reached a contract settlement with shipping giant United Parcel Service. It was hard to paint it as anything other than a win for the union. On almost every major issue, the Teamsters were able to force UPS to agree to their demands.
75. The Promises and Limitations of Radical Local Politics
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Steve Early's most recent book, Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of An American City (Beacon Press), describes the building of a what is very likely the most successful progressive political organization, The Richmond Progressive Alliance, in the United States, in Richmond, California, a blue collar city long dominated by Chevron Corp.
76. Promoting your union
    Six strategies to get more organizing leads and union members
    Resource Type: Book
    Promoting Your Union is a book to help union organizers get more organizing leads, create outreach plans to bring in new members and build the power of their unions. The ideas in this book are based on actual best practices from union organizers who are using these tactics in the field.
    
77. A Proposal to American Labor
    'Open source unionism' could reinvigorate American labor in the age of the Internet
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    The authors posit that union membership is too restricted by the requirement that unions have majority support in the workplace. They believe that pro-union workers who are a minority in their workplace should be mobilized by the labor movement if it wants to grow.
78. Queer Activism in the Labor Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In the 1970s, Teresa Rankin kept her sexual orientation private while organizing textile workers at J.P. Stevens in North Carolina. When the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) offered her an organizing position in a small town in Virginia, Rankin, turned down the opportunity fearing isolation due to her sexual orientation.
79. Radical America - Volume 7, Number 4-5
    Volume 7, Numbers 4 & 5 - Women's Labor
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973
    
80. Rank and File 
    Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers.
81. Reading, Writing and Union Building
    Against The Current vol. 138
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The United States changed forever on November 4, 2008. It will undoubtedly change even more during the next four years — although just how remains to be determined. There has never been such a convergence of yawning crises facing an incoming U.S. government, including a collapsing credit system and the near-death spiral of the North American auto industry. It’s an entirely open question whether the sheer scale of the objective emergency might impose serious structural changes on the way capitalism is administered in this country.
82. A Reluctant Memoir of the '50s and '60s
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    I have been asked to write a memoir that would give a sense of the old left/new left realities of the 1950s and ‘60s. That seems quite odd to me (why would I be writing such a thing?), until I look in the mirror and see this old guy looking back at me. As I reflect, it does seem to me that I went through a lot of experience, met a lot of people, and perhaps learned from all that…So I will share some of my story.
83. Review Essay: Reutherism Redux
    Against The Current vol. 112
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Despite stepped-up union recruitment, farm workers and poultry processors still haven't taken over the AFL-CIO. But the old guard's fear of being swamped by low-wage workers—expressed by this AFT delegate seven years ago—has materialized in other ways (even while organizing among "strawberry pickers and chicken pluckers" generally flopped).
84. Revolutionary Centennial: Guyana's 1905 Rebellion
    Against The Current vol. 114
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    1905 was a landmark year in the history of Guyana, as it was for several places around the world. In Russia, the Tsar and his troops shot workers delivering a petition in St. Petersburg. In Bengal there were communal shootings; in South West Africa the German massacre of the Herero people was in full progress.
85. The Socialist Register 1968
    Volume 5: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1968
    
86. Speech at the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1905
    I realize that I stand in the presence of those who in the past have fought, are fighting, and will continue to fight the battles of the working class economically and politically, until the capitalist class is overthrown and the working class are emancipated from all of the degrading thralldom of the ages. In this great struggle the working class are often defeated, but never vanquished.
87. Strike Lessons from the Last Twenty-Five Years: Walking Out and Winning
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Labor's strike effectiveness and organizational strength have long been connected. Throughout history, work stoppages have been used for economic and political purposes, to alter the balance of power between labor and capital within single workplaces, entire industries, or nationwide. Strikes have won shorter hours and safer conditions, through legislation or contract negotiation.(1) They've fostered new forms of worker organization -- such as industrial unions -- that were badly needed because of corporate restructuring and the reorganization of production. Strikes have acted as incubators for class consciousness, rank-and-file leadership development, and political activism.(2) In other countries, strikers have challenged -- and changed -- governments that were dictatorial and oppressive (plus union leadership no longer accountable to the membership).
88. Sweat and Struggle
    Working Class Struggles In Canada 1789 - 1899
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    
89. Talking About Organizing
    A Series
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    This is an active online archive of commentaries and stories, first published in Our Times, about the experience of union organizing: what works and what doesn't. It's also the place where you'll find Our Times' columnist Derek Blackadder's WebWork series archived -- articles about online resources for union activists.
90. A Time for Learning
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    I don't recall being aware of the events in France in May-June 1968. I was in college, beginning to get radicalized on several fronts, notably the war. Something called the “Free University” was started in Washington, D.C., and I signed up for a class on communes. I remember well a presentation that spring, in which the speaker kept referring to “the Establishment.”
91. Trade Union
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    
92. Trade Unions Bread & Roses The trade union revival
    New Internationalist December 2001
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2001
    A look at some of the facts and issues regarding trade unions and what they have done for people in various parts of the world.
93. A Troublemaker's Handbook 
    How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991   Published: 2005
    An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
94. A Troublemaker's Handbook 2 
    Resource Type: Book
    A manual for workers who want to take control over their lives at work. In hundreds of first-person accounts, workers tell in their own words how they organized and struggled to do that.
95. 25 Years After the Gdansk Uprising
    Against The Current vol. 121
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Suzi Weissman interviews David Ost. The occupation of the Gdansk shipyard by Polish workers in 1980, demanding recognition of their independent trade union Solidarnosc, rocked the Eastern bloc and inspired the world. A quarter century later, Communist rule is only a bad memory but the present realities for the Polish working class are a grim choice between neoliberalism and reactionary psedo-populism. The following interview with David Ost, conducted by Suzi Weissman November 28, 2005 for her radio program “Beneath the Surface” on KPFK in Los Angeles (90.7 FM), explores what’s happened to post-Solidarity Poland. It has been edited for publication here.
96. A Union Defeated at United Air Lines
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The April 1 certification of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) was no April Fool’s joke for the 8600 eligible mechanic and related United Airlines (UAL) employees who voted in the March 31 representational election. The Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA), which served the members for nearly five years under very difficult circumstances in the aviation industry, lost the vote by 4,113 to 2,631.
97. U.S. Labor's Subterranean Fire
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The broad outlines of the crisis of the U.S. labor movement -— sharply declining union density, concession bargaining, failures to organize the growing non-union manufacturing and service sectors, the labor officialdom’s reliance on institutionalized labor-management cooperation schemes — are familiar to readers of Against the Current. The roots of this crisis — the dominance of bureaucratic business unionism and the weakness of rank-and file-led reform movements from below — are also well-known.
98. What Happened - and Didn't: Behind New York's Transit Strike
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Early on December 20, 2005, Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100, representing some 33,000 of New York City's subway and bus workers, called a strike. When dawn broke, there was no public transportation in NYC and millions of people walked, hitched rides, rode their bikes, or stayed home.
99. When the UAW Was Young
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    An interview with Erwin and Estar Baur.
100. The Winter of our Discontent
     Experiences Organizing Nursing Homes
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1973
     An account by two nursing home workers describing their jobs and their successful efforts to organize unions at their workplaces.
     Published in Issue #2 (1973) on the New Tendency newsletter.
101. Worst Companies for Union Organizing Highlighted for International Human Rights Day
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) has released "Working for Scrooge: Worst Companies of 2009 for the Right to Associate," a list of the four worst multinational corporations for union organizing.

Experts on Organizaci¢n sindical in the Sources Directory

1. International Labor Rights Forum
2. Marxists Internet Archive