#syndicalism

[yourfaveisleftist]

Miles O'Brien from the Star Trek series is an anarcho-syndicalist!

#star trek #miles o'brien #anarchism #syndicalism #anarcho syndicalism

[miochimochi]

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?

#anarchism #anarchy #market anarchism #agora #agorism #diy #punk diy #diy punk #patches #syndicalism #synthesis anarchism #individualist anarchism #social anarchism #egoism #mutualism #diy patches #diy projects #anarcho primitivism #stronger together #unity jacket #anarcho capitalism #anarcha feminism #anarcho pacifism #anarchopunk #anarcho syndicalism #anarchist #queer anarchism #anarcho communism #anarchocapitalism #anarchocommunism

[wobblydev]

Before The Strike, page 76

BTS updates Wednesdays when i can

ko-fi.com/wobblydev

Full comic so far

#wobbly dev #wobblydev #syndical crossing #syndicalism #before the strike #web comic #beforethestrike #farband #BTS

[barely-coherent-anarchist]

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.

#socialism #marxism #communism #socialist #anarchism #leftist #leftism #communist #left wing #ancom #rmt strike #rmt union #trade unions #syndicalism #anarcho syndicalism #trade unionism #unionize #protest #industrial action #direct action #left unity #politics #ukpolitics #british politics #anti capitalism #anticapitalism #antiwar #right to protest #right to strike #rail strikes

[syndicalcrossing]

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.

#syndical crossing #gamedev #game development #syndicalism #Fuck unity

[poliesther]

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.

#iww #IWW #Solidarity #I.W.W. #join a union #unionize #organize! #direct action #syndicalism

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

What did you do today to work towards a general strike?

#politics #syndicalism #trade unionism #general strike #radical action #organising #not entirely serious #but also entirely serious

[sabot-sister]

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

#syndicalism #shop talk #unions

[jadwiga-abremovic]

The Yugoslavian Way, 1958

#communism #nezamjenjivi tito #josip broz tito #marxism #syndicalism #council communism #marxism leninism #yugoslavia #yugoblr #20th century #quotes #1950s

[damnesdelamer]

☭ LEFT UNITY Ⓐ

#left unity #communism #communist #anarchism #anarchist #anarcho-communism #anarcho-communist #syndicalism #syndicalist #socialism #socialist #original

[tips-from-a-tech-worker]

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

#organising #solidarity #union organising #how to beat your boss #organising actions #militant action #syndicalism #revolutionary syndicalism

[yourfaveisleftist]

Ellen ripley is an anarchosyndicalist

#ellen ripley #alien #aliens #anarchism #syndicalism #anarcho syndicalism

[miochimochi]

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

#anarchism #anarchy #market anarchism #agora #agorism #diy #punk diy #diy punk #patches #queer anarchism #anarcha feminism #anarchocapitalism #syndicalism #anarcho syndicalism #anarcho communism #anarcho primitivism #anarcho pacifism #pacifism #mutualism #egoism #transhumanism #transhumanist anarchism #anarcho transhumanism #veganarchy #individualism #individualist anarchism #primitivism #syncretic anarchism #united anarchism #anarchism without adjectives

[captainlezbian]

Genuinely struggling to understand how this isn’t the archetypal cyberpunk dystopia. We have the rgb, we have the tech, we have the fascists, we have the surveillance.

Liberte. Egalite. Sororite.

All power to the workers.

#Linux #transgender #lgbt #liberte #egalite #sororite #fraternite #cyberpunk #capitalism #communism #syndicalism #unions #leftism

[extremesocialoutcast]

SyndiCentralism lmao 🤣

I asked Microsoft Copilot to name my bad political self-theory from when I was a teenager.

This should be a meme. It needs a symbol. It needs to be in the Polcompball Wiki.

(No joke, I thought this was a good idea as a teenager. I thought this was a foolproof way to eliminate capitalism.)

(For reference, I'm now a post-left anarchist.)

(This model would lead to so much corruption lmao; especially if tankie think tanks get involved.)

(Now, if you want to meme this aborted train wreck, you can depict SyndiCentralist ball as a manipulative, corrupt, almost cult-like leader, despite running being part of a seemingly-democratic organization. Despite the workers making the vote, he's pretty much the thought leader. And he's only really concerned with achieving his own political gains, and is willing to accept advice and collaboration from MLs.)

#socialism #anarchism #syndicalism #leftism #post left #anarchy #polcompball #political humor #political memes #tankies #market socialism #ai #microsoft copilot #anarchist memes #post leftism

[darthkieduss]

Try

Revolution doesn't just happen overnight. It can happen spontaneously, yes, but it builds and builds and builds until it can no longer be contained. The need for freedom, liberty and justice will become a force so massive that the government in Washington DC will not be able to ignore or write off as "tiktok kid activism". It is up to every single one of us to contribute to the revolution.

Oppression is not natural. Freedom is the nature of all life forms, not just us humans. While some animals such as the dog or cat can definitely survive better in a house under control of a human, I've never seen a dog more happy then when you let them outside. To control people, whether it be because of some dumb book written 2,000 years ago (by man not God) or because of some obsession with maintaining "order" is an act of narcissism. To think that one has a right to control what living breathing beings can do with their lives is a blatant act of claiming that they are gods over humanity.

Remember this: It is not natural to be controlled. If you are spiritual or super religious, God (or gods) gave us free will for a reason. If you are an atheist, then free will comes from nature. Governments try to control people because they are afraid. President Thomas Jefferson himself coined the phrase: When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The government tries to control people because like most men, they fear losing their power and wealth. They seek to control to preserve their power. That's why the government will commit atrocities like opening fire on striking workers like the Kent State shootings against students protesting the Vietnam War or the 1927 Columbine Mine massacre against coal miners simply striking for better wages and benefits. It is inhumane to control people. Sure, government has to exist. I'm not an anarchist, but the amount of control the US government has exhibited since 1981 is unconstitutional and must be opposed.

Reform is not the answer. Reform is just a bandage on a wound that needs stitches. Change is needed but change through reform is like a drug addict thinking he's kicking drugs by simply only doing drugs once a week. True Revolution happens when the opium is completely thrown out and destroyed. In order for true change to happen, it must come through sudden revolution. We must uphaul the system and like a phoenix, rebirth this country from its ashes.

It does sometime seem like it's impossible. "What can I do? I'm just one person and the US government has the military." Remember this, we outnumber them. The US military has 1,328,000+ active servicemen, with 800,000+ reserve while the US population is 334,914,895 (2023 concenus). Ordinary peasants took down the Czar's Armies and ruled Russia for 74 years. In many revolutions, those were in the military sided with the people, such as the French and Russian Revolutions. Hell, a vast number of those who swore an allegiance to King George III took off their redcoats and pledged their lives to the cause of the American Revolution. When enough soldiers see what is happening, they will dissent and swell our ranks. The British Empire was the most powerful military in the world at that time and we won, though we would've lost without France's assistance so don't get arrogant.

I know revolution seems impossible especially with all the propaganda that Fox News, CNN, MSNBC etc pop out everyday. Remember the Soviets and the Nazis shoved propaganda throughout their empires and both fell, people in both nations rose up against the far-left communism and far-right fascism. The British government often used propaganda, including religious propaganda, to ensure that their American subjects should be loyal to the King and yet we've been an indepenet country since 1783. The Russian government under Putin commands obedience and tells its people tremendous lies about its illegal war in Ukraine and yet millions of Russian people protest him. The Israelis claim that anyone who opposes Israel or its actions (genocide) against Palestinians in Gaza is Anti-Semitic and yet people all around the world, including here in the US, protest Israel.

It's also quite possible that multiple revolutions must happen in order for the big one to come about. The Soviet Union didn't come about because of one revolution in 1917 but of two. The people rose up against the Czar in February of 1917 only for sadly the extremist Bolsheviks to conquer Russia in the October Revolution of 1917. Our own American Revolution took over 10 years to ignite, starting with the British Parliament passing the Stamp Act in 1765 to the firing of shots at Lexington and Concord in 1775. The American Revolution occurred across thirteen colonies. So really, the American Revolution was about multiple revolutions exploding throughout the Colonies that united to form the United States of America.

This is not a shot at conservatism or leftism. Both the Democrat and Republican Parties have taken rights from Americans, from the Republicans passing the Patriot Act (essentially gutting the Bill of Rights) after 9/11 and Democrats not allowing that proto-fascist act to expire (it's set to expire every five years but the government under both parties keep delaying the expiration). This is an outline on how revolution must happen. Both parties have allowed the wealthy elite to plunder this nation and steal from the working class to ensure they have all the money and power (one is definitely more guilty than the other but I digress) .

Remember this: Revolutions happen because the people demand it. When enough people have tried method after method of chaning the system peacefully, what other alternative do they have left other than Revolution? Every protest, whether it's on the left or right, puts out in front of the people the failures of the government. Millions of women are to this day protesting that the supreme court has stripped them of their constitutional right to bodily autonomy. Millions of people around the world are in the streets protesting the genocidal act of Putin's Russia and Netenyahu's Israel.

Maybe it is hopeless. Maybe I'm just wasting time on this post. Most likely no one will see it. But I have to try. I would rather die on my feet then live on my knees. If I could do this fight against tyranny all over again, the only thing I'd change is the year it happened. Never give up. Even if you don't live to see the results. Even if you fail. Even if the government comes to your house to take you away. Your example will inspire others to rise up. We have to try. Change doesn't happen because we bowed our heads and went along to get along. And sometimes you have to out yourself. Sometimes you have to call out your alcoholic racist uncle at Thanksgiving. Even if your family turns against you.

Remember this: revolutions don't happen because of one person. George Washington didn't defeat the British at Yorktown all himself. It took the courage, bravery and sacrifice of thousands of brave American men and women. Even children, as proven by then 13 year old Andrew Jackson. Napoleon didn't start the French revolution. Vladimir Lenin didn't start the Russian Revolution. It's up to all of us. To lead by example.

We will sacrifice, we will struggle but ultimately we will triumph.

Let me end this with the manifesto of Karis Nemik, a character from the Andor series (a really good Star Wars series despite my preference for Star Wars Legends). Consider these words and take them to heart:

There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy.

Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause.

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.

Remember this: Try.

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