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wobblydev · 20 hours
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Before The Strike, page 76
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yourfaveisleftist · 7 months
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Miles O'Brien from the Star Trek series is an anarcho-syndicalist!
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seeing a lot of discourse within the british media about these strikes, most notably the fact that several pundits and politicians are claiming that raising wages will "increase inflation".
to be completely blunt, this claim is absolute bullshit. wages haven't kept up with inflation since the 2007 financial crisis, and yet corporations (e.g. private rail companies) have reported record profits. so how the fuck is it acceptable for corporations to enjoy massive profits, but when workers demand pay rises to be able to afford to live, its somehow wrong?
and yes, i know strikes are disruptive, but that's kind of the fucking point. direct action, whether industrial or social only works when disruptive.
so yeah, support the strikes, support workers, and fuck the companies who refuse to pay them properly.
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miochimochi · 17 days
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Finished the back of the unity jacket. Need to think of more to put on this one. Mainly trying to think of something to paint on the hood. Maybe a black head?
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syndicalcrossing · 3 months
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i don't know exactly how to proceed with this project. I will never use unity again after their ridiculous betrayal, despite their backpedaling. I'll only ever use open source development software going forward. this means I'll need to remake what I've already made in some other engine. It's not like I had a minimum viable product anyway, so I can take this opportunity to improve everything from scratch. still, it's a daunting task to think about. Syndical Crossing may just live in BTS for now.
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poliesther · 2 months
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I did a thing.
So as a way to support local organizing efforts in restaurants of my area I have coordinated with some fellow workers to find resources for me to translate to Spanish.
Take on consideration that I am not a professional by any means, just want to help.
Also, I tried to add some footnotes to add a bit of info of words that are not that common outside labour circles.
Good luck and Solidarity, here is How to fire your boss in Spanish.
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What did you do today to work towards a general strike?
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sabot-sister · 2 years
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this is niche but. having adhd but having the ability to rely on people who are good at whatever your weak points are will make you a very effective union organizer. Seeing everything as a complex net of relations is incredibly useful because ulitmately everything IS a complex net of relations. Also shoutout to the exasperated trans autistic people in the spreadsheet department the revolution would fail without you. Masking makes you so much more able to relate to every person alive because everyone is already a puzzling mystery to you anyway. Neurodivergents use your powers in the international labor movement no one in there is normal. thanks for coming to my ted talk
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damnesdelamer · 2 years
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☭ LEFT UNITY Ⓐ
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How do I improve my workplace?
I don't think a single person has worked for more than 10 minutes and has thought "This is literally perfect. I want this 'til retirement."
There is always something that can be improved at work, even if it is incredibly minor. There are always micro-managing bosses, there's always broken equipment that never gets replaced or fixed, and there's always someone who has to bring in their own equipment because the office stock has run out.
And you won't be the only one who has these issues. No doubt everyone else is also thinking the same thing.
So how do we resolve this? Well luckily for us, we have a wealth of historical events that we can look into and find some great examples!
Of course, all of the following examples are most effective when coordinated with your co-workers. So make sure you've had a few one-on-one chats, got to know who you can trust, and get organised!
Be aware, your boss or manager will not take kindly to these actions, so be prepared to fight against pushback.
1. Slow down!
Productivity is all that matters to your boss. As long as "line go up" at the end of the day, they'll continue as always. The only way to grab their attention is to threaten that.
Slowdowns (or go-slows) are a very direct way of affecting that all-important line. Suddenly the boss is faced with an issue: "Line go down. :(".
The slowdown is a great way of showing just how much effort workers normally put in. Just how much they actually produce. And just how much is threatened when they take the gas off ever so slightly.
2. Good work, kid!
Sometimes affecting productivity will have unwanted negative effects. Doctors often worry that their patients' well-being would be affected, even temporarily. Bus drivers might be concerned that they'd be getting other people in trouble with their bosses by stopping service. Luckily, there is a way around it.
When you don't want to affect productivity, but still want to frighten the boss, hit them in the wallet. The Good Work Strike is a type of direct action where workers will continue to carry out their job but at a greater expense to the boss. Bus drivers might let people on for free, doctors or hospital administrators might not process medical bills, and extra admin work might not be carried out in favour of meeting the needs of a customer.
Quite often this means a better all-round service, as the worker is more focused on their work, rather than the "bullshit" work around the edges.
3. Complying... Maliciously!
How many times has your work been slowed down by needless reporting, strange and confusing rules, and bizarre workplace practices that the new manager has decided to implement? And how many times have you just ignored them, because you know that they make your job unworkable?
Well lucky for you, this can be used to your advantage...
Working to the rule (Work to Rule) is just that: following every single rule and regulation to the T, regardless of how long it takes. Suddenly, productivity goes down, and the boss starts to panic!
4. Sorry boss, I'm not feeling too well today...
Some industries in the UK, mostly public sector roles, are legally prevented from striking. This presents an issue when trying to figure out what to do to threaten the bosses' productivity or income. If you can't do that, then they can just ignore you. But there is a way around this.
The Sick-In is an action where several employees all report as sick on a given day. Sometimes, even the idea of a sick-in is enough to get results. And even a workplace all calling in to check how much sick leave they have left has done the trick.
Be aware that this can go south fairly quickly if someone decides to snitch beforehand. Find people you can trust!
5. Just Do It™
Historically, the best way to get something done is to do it yourself, bosses be damned. Organise with co-workers and pull something together without waiting for the boss to issue decrees from above.
To give an example, in San Fransisco, there was a coffee house with an owner who was incredibly poor at managing money (but he managed to get paid pretty consistently interestingly enough). Workers there would be paid weeks and sometimes months late.
The workers there took it into their own hands and began to pay themselves directly from the cash registers, leaving receipts to document where the money had gone.
Immediately there was an uproar from the owner, but the pay slips would arrive on time after that.
If something should be happening that isn't... Just do it!
6. Not just a Foo Fighters song...
I'll preface this with the following: these tactics are almost guaranteed to get you fired. Additionally, you might potentially piss off a load of co-workers as well. This should probably only be applied when tactically necessary.
You've tried everything. You're currently on strike, and the boss has brought in a load of scab workers. What's left?
As an aside, Monkey Wrenching refers to techniques used to sabotage, incapacitate, or destroy machinery or tools used for production.
In a railroad strike in 1886, scabs turned up to work to suddenly find that there was a load of equipment missing. Crucial small pieces of trains were missing, and couldn't run without them. Suddenly, the scabs were faced with the fact that there wasn't much they could do here and had to sit on their hands.
In one of my previous jobs, my manager had asked me to add a surcharge to a charity donation tool we were creating. There was nothing in the specification about the surcharge, and the money would be sent directly to his business account. There were only a couple of developers who knew the system well. And what a shame, our laptops would suddenly begin to bluescreen. A small drop of water here, a magnet placed too close to a hard drive there, these unforeseen events delayed the project enough that it was never taken up.
Wrapping things up
These are a few tools that workers can use to prove to their boss that he needs them more than they need him. Of course, it should go without saying, these tactics can and will get you in hot water. Discretion is advised.
Additionally, these tactics can only be effectively employed with help from your fellow workers. A single worker carrying this out will only ever be crushed. Sure, sabotage feels great, but at best it only really resolves one bad day, at worst it's adventurism. A collective of workers carrying this out can absolutely scare a boss onto the straight and narrow. It also leads to more permanent changes in the workplace - and sometimes across the whole industry!
This is also not an exhaustive list of everything you can do, only some of the more militant actions. Sometimes you will be lucky enough to have a boss that doesn't immediately reach for the chopping block. Tactics should be applied where and when they are necessary.
Notice as well that I didn't specifically talk about strikes. Strikes are GREAT. But once they've been employed, there isn't much room to escalate (legally) should the bosses refuse to back down. Of course, if needs must, strike away, but it's not the only tool in our arsenal.
As always, stay safe, and remember you're stronger together than you are alone.
Stay safe and solidarity, fellow workers! xox
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jadwiga-abremovic · 6 months
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The Yugoslavian Way, 1958
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yourfaveisleftist · 7 months
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Ellen ripley is an anarchosyndicalist
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vigilantsycamore · 9 months
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Hey. I loved your post about the hammer and sickle. I don’t like how the hammer and sickle is still a big symbol with Western Socialists despite its link to a regime responsible for genocide and mass murder and decades of human suffering. Those other symbols don’t seem familiar to me, do you have a source for those or somewhere I can find some information?
Thanks for the kind words!
Unfortunately, the information I can provide is also limited (though if anyone reading this knows more than me, feel free to add more), but I’ll do my best
The rose, the raised fist, and the rose-and-fist, are the ones I’m most familiar with here. The rose comes from labor movements that use the political slogan “bread and roses” (which is also why bread is sometimes used as a left-wing symbol) and is popular as a symbol of both democratic socialism and social democracy. The fist, especially a raised fist, represents resistance and solidarity. The rose-and-fist in particular is a popular democratic socialist symbol
Gears seem to be a symbol of syndicalism, which is a socialist movements focused on labor strikes and workplace activism, as well as anarcho-syndicalism, which envisions a society run by labor unions and workplace co-ops (that’s a huge oversimplification though). A lot of anarcho-syndicalist symbols online seem to have been made by fans of an alternate history HOI4 mod rather than actual anarcho-syndicalists, but the imagery still fucks
Wheat I think represents agrarianism?
Yeah, that’s pretty much all I can say about this myself. Like I said, anyone who knows more is welcome to add extra information
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miochimochi · 24 days
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Got all 11 flags ready for sewing onto the jacket. Clockwise from white:
Anarcho-Pacifism
Anarcha-Feminism
Anarcho-Communism/Syndicalism
Mutuslism
Anarcho-Capitalism
Primitivism/Green Anarchism/Veganarchism
Egoism
Individualist Anarchism
Transhumanist Anarchism
Queer Anarchism
Agorism
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darreinhardt · 9 months
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Getting Wobbly In There…
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Sabrina-Tabitha
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spyderslut · 2 years
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george orwell was pretty cool, actually.
ive observed that its a fairly common thread in leftist (esspecially the more broad “leftist unity”) spaces to say “hes bad, actually” or just more generally disavow him. Considering his whole body of work and all the things he did throughout his life and the positions he held, i think this is quite far from the right thing to do.
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