Workers Solidarity Alliance
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339 Lafeyette Street
Room 202
New York, NY, 10012,

E-Mail: wsany@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.workersolidarity.org

Purpose: Workers Solidarity Alliance is an anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian organization of activists who believe that working people can build a new society and a better world based on the principles of solidarity and self-management.

Our view is that such a society will be brought about only by working people building their own self-managed mass organizations from the ground up. Independent working class organization exists to some extent today in the form of rank-and-file committees, tenants unions, workers centers and other formations that might represent the forerunner of such a movement.

We participate in current struggles and in the existing unions to fight for the rights of working people in the here and now, while working to build new, self-managed unions in the workplace and self-managed community organizations.

In building organizations that are run directly by their membership, we not only create more effective organizations for fighting the bosses in day-to-day struggles, we will also be laying the foundation for a new society run by working people.

We favor the development of a workers movement based on direct democracy, not just because it will be more effective in the present-day fight against the employing class, but also because it foreshadows - and lays the basis for - a society of freedom and equality, without authoritarianism or exploitation.

Self-emancipation means that the working class, through its own united action, must seize and manage the entire system of production, communication and distribution. Tenants must take over the management of the buildings where they live. Dangerous technology must be redesigned or dismantled. The time that people must spend in work can be greatly reduced by eliminating the unnecessary work created by the current system, and sharing the necessary work among all those who can contribute.

The most basic organ of decision making in a self-managed society should be the face-to-face democracy of assemblies of people in workplaces and neighborhoods. But self management cannot be isolated in small, local units. The economy as a whole must be managed by the entire working class.

Founded: 1984

Geographic Scope: National

Languages: English

Structure: Non-Profit, Worker Controlled

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