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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: 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: 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: 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: Looking Back After 70 Years...
Znet Article, August, 03 2006
Tom Wetzel
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In Spain's national elections in February of 1936, a repressive right-wing government was swept out of office and replaced by a coalition of liberals and socialists. Taking advantage of a less repressive environment, Spain's workers propelled the ...
Wetzel: Unionism and Workers' Liberation
Znet Article, May, 31 2006
Tom Wetzel
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Unionism and Workers' Liberation
Wetzel: Workers' Liberation and Institutions of Self-Management
Znet Article, February, 27 2006
Tom Wetzel
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We live under a system with a series of oppressions woven together: domination and exploitation of workers by elite classes of owners, managers and professionals; a system of gender inequality that disadvantages women; a racial hierarchy that plac...
Wetzel: San Francisco Transit Fight
Znet Article, September, 04 2005
Tom Wetzel
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Despite heavy police presence at major bus transfer points, at least a couple thousand passengers rode the buses for free in San Francisco on Thursday, September 1st — the opening day of a fare strike in North America’s most bus-i...
Wetzel: Workers Power and the Russian Revolution
Znet Article, April, 11 2005
Tom Wetzel
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I was attracted to radical politics in the late 1960s/early ‘70s when I was in my twenties. Most of the people who were drawn to serious revolutionary politics back then ended up in Leninist organizations of some sort, if only for a time. ...
Wetzel: Debating Economic Vision for a Society without Class
Znet Article, August, 13 2004
Tom Wetzel
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Debating Economic Vision for a Society without Class
Wetzel: Debating Economic Vision for a Society without Classes
Znet Article, August, 13 2004
Tom Wetzel
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Debating Economic Vision for a Society without Classes
Wetzel: The Capitalist City or the Self-Managed City?
Znet Article, July, 20 2004
Tom Wetzel
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This essay is from the recently p...
Wetzel: About Anarchism
Znet Article, August, 29 2003
Tom Wetzel
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About Anarchism
Wetzel: Participatory Economics and the Self-emancipation of the Working Class
Znet Article, March, 31 2003
Tom Wetzel
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A slogan that has been popular among quite a few syndicalists, anarchists, and Marxists was Flora Tristan's saying from 1843: The emancipation of the working class must be the work of the workers themselves. This slogan assumes that it i...
Wetzel: Participatory Economics and the Self-emancipation of the Working Class
Znet Article, March, 31 2003
Tom Wetzel
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A slogan that has been popular among quite a few syndicalists, anarchists, and Marxists was Flora Tristan's saying from 1843:
Wetzel: Talk At Anarchist Conference
Znet Article, October, 21 2002
Tom Wetzel
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I'm going to talk a bit about the theoretical presuppositions of anarchosyndicalism, and I'm going to make some comparisons with Marxism since both political perspectives claim to base themselves on the class struggle. Actually they aren't exact...
