unions
An injury to all
‘An Injury to One is an Injury to All’. This slogan of the Industrial Workers of the World has come to represent the claim that trade union activities should extend beyond the interests of the unions’ members and to a broader ‘community of fate’, as John S. Alquist and Margaret Levi call it. Indeed, rather than looking at organisations in general, their book focuses on trade unions, US and Australian transport trade unions in particular.
‘Anarchy by the book? Forget about it!’: The role of collective memory in shaping workers’ relations to anarchism and work today
It is lunchtime on the second day of a summer university organised by a French popular education movement in the South of France. A self-managed workshop on action has just finished, and now participants have gathered to hear about the experience of two collectives: one opposed to shale gas exploitation and the other against the construction of a large tourism complex including extensive golf courses.
