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Wetzel: Why Revolutionary Syndicalism?
Blog Post, January, 18 2013
Tom Wetzel
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An argument for the relevance of revolutionary syndicalism.
Wetzel: The Origins of the Union Shop
Znet Article, January, 14 2012
Tom Wetzel
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A look at the practice and limitations of union (closed) shops in the US workers' movement in the 1930s and 40s
Wetzel: Venezuela from Below
Blog Post, August, 22 2011
Tom Wetzel
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A review of a very detailed examination of the "Bolivarian Movement" in Venezuela, led by Hugo Chavez. The author is a researcher for a Venezuelan human rights organization. He argues that the Chavez movement falls in the tradition of Latin Americ...
Wetzel: Debate with the International Socialist Organization
Blog Post, October, 01 2010
Tom Wetzel
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Rejoinder to debate with Eric Kerl in September-October issue of International Socialist Review.
Wetzel: Challenges in a Time of Austerity
Blog Post, September, 01 2010
Tom Wetzel
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A "class power" analysis of the current economic crisis and a look at the crisis in the working class.
Wetzel: Fight for Union Freedom in Germany
Blog Post, December, 17 2009
Tom Wetzel
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Berlin court order is a threat to autonomous or alternative grassroots unionism in Germany. Court, German national union ver.di, collaborate with management of New Babylon Cinema to break worker struggle for union self-organization.
Wetzel: My Reimaging Society Interview
Blog Post, December, 04 2009
Tom Wetzel
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My answers to questions posed for Reimagining Society participants.
Wetzel: Vision for Housing
Znet Article, August, 19 2009
Tom Wetzel
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Social housing today and under self-managed socialism
Wetzel: Anarchism, Class Struggle and Political Organization
Znet Article, July, 22 2009
Tom Wetzel
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This is an exploration of the perspectives of pro-organizational anarchists who have a class struggle perspective in the USA.
Wetzel: What is Democratic Planning?
Znet Article, July, 19 2009
Tom Wetzel
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A reply to Michael Lowy on Ecosocialism
Wetzel: Tenant Victory Celebrated
Blog Post, June, 17 2009
Tom Wetzel
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Tenants celebrate conversion of their building into a coop in San Francisco.
Wetzel: From Self-managed Solidarity Unionism to a Self-managed Society
Znet Article, June, 15 2009
Tom Wetzel
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When Marx drew up a draft set of principles for the first International Working Men's Association (the "First International") in the 1860s, he began with the statement:
Wetzel: Erik Olin Wright on the transition to socialism
Blog Post, March, 30 2009
Tom Wetzel
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A response to Erik Olin Wright's discussion of the strategies for transition to "democratic egalitarian socialism."
Wetzel: Social Anarchism, Leninism and the State
Blog Post, March, 16 2009
Tom Wetzel
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An explanation of the social anarchist view of the state, an evalution of Bolshevik practice in the Russian revolution, and a look at the question of working class political power in the Spanish revolution.
Wetzel: Individualism, Social Anarchism and Leninism
Blog Post, March, 12 2009
Tom Wetzel
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A discussion of social anarchist ideas, highlighting the differences with individualist anarchism, as part of a reply to articles critiquing anarchism in Socialist Worker.
Wetzel: Barcelona bus drivers strike
Blog Post, March, 03 2008
Tom Wetzel
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Workers assembly runs transit strike in Barcelona
Wetzel: The City
Znet Article, February, 26 2008
Tom Wetzel
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In the early 20th century, radical workplace activists put forward the idea that, in building workplace organizations or unions self-managed by rank and file workers, and in challenging the bosses for control of production, they were "building the...
Wetzel: Opening Comments for Debate with Socialist Perspective: Representing Parecon
Znet Article, February, 25 2008
Tom Wetzel
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When Marx wrote up a draft of the Principles of the International Workers Association in the 1860s, he adapted a slogan of Flora Tristan, from 1843: "The emancipation of the working class must be the work of the workers themselves."
Wetzel: Guild socialism as a precursor to partcipipatory economics
Blog Post, February, 01 2008
Tom Wetzel
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In the World War 1 era ideas of workers managing industry had gained a certain popularity in the labor movement in the US and Britain. Thinkers like G.D.H. Cole and R.H. Tawney in England responded to this by developing a vision of a decentralized...
Wetzel: The Carless Majority in Central Los Angeles
Blog Post, January, 17 2008
Tom Wetzel
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How land use patterns have created great differences in the level of auto reliance between central cities and outlying areas, even in Los Angeles.
