Zcom_simple

Back Search Results - New Search

Blog Post Wetzel: Why Revolutionary Syndicalism?

Blog Post, January, 18 2013 Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page

An argument for the relevance of revolutionary syndicalism.

Blog Post Wetzel: Venezuela from Below

Blog Post, August, 22 2011 Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page

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...

Blog Post Wetzel: Debate with the International Socialist Organization

Blog Post, October, 01 2010 Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page

Rejoinder to debate with Eric Kerl in September-October issue of International Socialist Review.

Blog Post Wetzel: Challenges in a Time of Austerity

Blog Post, September, 01 2010 Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page

A "class power" analysis of the current economic crisis and a look at the crisis in the working class.

Blog Post Wetzel: Fight for Union Freedom in Germany

Blog Post, December, 17 2009 Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page

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.

Blog Post Wetzel: My Reimaging Society Interview

Blog Post, December, 04 2009 Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page

My answers to questions posed for Reimagining Society participants.

Blog Post Wetzel: Tenant Victory Celebrated

Blog Post, June, 17 2009 Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page

Tenants celebrate conversion of their building into a coop in San Francisco.

Blog Post Wetzel: Erik Olin Wright on the transition to socialism

Blog Post, March, 30 2009 Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page

A response to Erik Olin Wright's discussion of the strategies for transition to "democratic egalitarian socialism."

Blog Post Wetzel: Social Anarchism, Leninism and the State

Blog Post, March, 16 2009 Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page

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.

Blog Post Wetzel: Individualism, Social Anarchism and Leninism

Blog Post, March, 12 2009 Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page

A discussion of social anarchist ideas, highlighting the differences with individualist anarchism, as part of a reply to articles critiquing anarchism in Socialist Worker.

Blog Post Wetzel: Barcelona bus drivers strike

Blog Post, March, 03 2008 Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page

Workers assembly runs transit strike in Barcelona

Blog Post Wetzel: Guild socialism as a precursor to partcipipatory economics

Blog Post, February, 01 2008 Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page

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...

Blog Post Wetzel: The Carless Majority in Central Los Angeles

Blog Post, January, 17 2008 Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page

How land use patterns have created great differences in the level of auto reliance between central cities and outlying areas, even in Los Angeles.

Loading_border