“Dockers don’t work for war”. Workers in more than 20 Mediterranean ports will take coordinated action on February 6 to oppose war and militarization. #WorkersMovement #internationalism #solidarity
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/30/dockworkers-in-mediterranean-ports-announce-coordinated-action-against-war/

Aight so me and two other good folks are starting a tech workers' cooperative. We've got plenty of stuff against us.
None of us have worked in a workers' cooperative or other kind of democratic workplace before.
There are barely a handful workers' coops in Norway. The national umbrella org for coops in Norway is basically dead and doesn't care about workers' coops at all.
Our coop is geographically distributed evenly along Norway, which means our northernmost worker-member would have to drive 24 hours by car or 44 hours by public transport to reach our southernmost worker-member.

We've put in effort to reduce our weaknesses, and we've got things going for us too.
We've met and continue to meet with other workers' coops to learn from them and collaborate. We've got potential clients and pilot projects. We've got hardware. We've got tech and business know-how. We're working on the formal stuff, bylaws and agreements.

It's going great.

Just wanted to let y'all know it can be done.

If you want to do it too, I recommend joining https://matrix.to/#/%23techcoop:autonomic.zone

#cooperative #coop #workersCooperative #democracy #socialism #anarchism #anarchy #communism #work #workersmovement #freedom #solidarity #egalitarian

Bringing back an episode we did with For A New Republic Podcast to talk about Trump, fascism, and rebuilding the workers' movement in the United States. For a New Republic is the official podcast of Éirígí For A New Republic, an Irish socialist republican party that seeks the reunification of Ireland and the establishment of a workers' republic. 

#fascism #trump #maga #workersmovement #socialist #eirigi
#community

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-regrettable-century/id1439945899?i=1000709149357

"I try to show that the Left in Europe, both the radical and the institutional, was caught in a bind by the strategies of employers, conservative political forces, and elements of the state. In both cases they were forced to choose between unappealing options. Perhaps the most pressing was to radicalize or moderate their strategies. They’re of course not the only agents in this story, and the Left is not in total control of the situation. But the ultimate outcome of the decisions taken at this critical moment was the evacuation of the working class from left structures and a weakening of labor more broadly.

There are clashes over what to do about economic restructuring and automation, participation in management structures and government, and media and communication technologies. An older generation of self-educated industrial worker activists rub up against a younger generation of educated, often white-collar members, each with different views on priorities and conduct. I mainly focus on the main electoral parties of the Left because they were the main organizations that workers joined and voted for at the time, and the ones that shaped how millions of people thought about the world. The radical left had sparser influence even if they suffered a broadly similar outcome.

In brief, the West European left went into decline not because of an unstoppable neoliberalism and a weakened manufacturing-based economy, but because it failed to recognize and mobilize new constituencies of workers, including migrants and women, and instead embraced a kind of “third way” social capitalism."

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/european-socialism-left-1970s-defeat

#Europe #Socialism #WorkersMovement #ClassStruggle #ThirdWay

On April 6, 1980, the #Canadian #Farmworkers #Union came into existence. This film documents the conditions among #Chinese and #EastIndian #ImmigrantWorkers in #BritishColumbia that provoked the formation of the union, and the response of growers and #labour contractors to the threat of #unionization. Made over a period of two years, the #documentary film is eloquent testimony to the progress of the #WorkersMovement from the first stirrings of militancy to the energetic canvassing of union members.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/time-to-rise/

#CanadianImmigrants #BCHistory #CanadianHistory #UnionStrong #Solidarity #Racism #EmployerExploitation #WorkersRights

Amazon workers in British Columbia have won Union certification. #WorkersMovement
#MakeAmazonPay
https://mronline.org/2025/07/22/amazon-workers-in-b-c-have-won-union-certification/

“From now on, it is the relentless accumulation of capital and the social formation structured to guarantee its continuation which ought to be held responsible for the ongoing ecological crisis. Blame capitalism; capitalism and its expansionist logic; the capitalist mode of production that overburdens the planet’s ecosystems with grave consequences.”
#NotesFromBelow #ClassComposition #WorkersMovement #ecosocialism
https://notesfrombelow.org/article/towards-disequal-transition-notes-on-the-ecologica

Ukraine: the ups and downs of workplace organising
Review by Simon Pirani of A Socialist Activist in Industrial Workplaces under Ukrainian bourgeois democracy 1998-2003 (Sotsialistichnii aktivist na promislovome pidpriemstv v umovakh Ukrainskoi burzhuaznoi demokratii 1999-2003, “Ekologia”: Odesa, 2025). #WorkersMovement #Organising
https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/ukraine-the-ups-and-downs-of-workplace-organising/

The Pan-African Workers Association (PAWA) have produced a new publication The Pan-African Worker. #IWW #WorkersMovement
https://www.onebigunion.ie/post/a-new-dawn-for-the-working-class-the-pan-african-worker

Organisational Innovations Among US Worker Centres: Lessons learned from the Street Vendor Project in New York City #WorkersMovement #WorkersInquiry #NotesFromBelow
https://notesfrombelow.org/article/organisational-innovations-among-us-worker-centres

Co-operation Among Co-operators: Reflections from a Cross-Border Conference in Belfast. The ‘Co-operation between Co-operators’ joint conference in Belfast marks the first time in a generation that the Irish and British co-operative societies have collaborated, with the aim of transforming society through the dissemination of ideas around economic democracy. #Cooperatives #WorkersMovement #Capitalism
https://www.rundale.org/2025/05/29/co-operation-among-co-operators-reflections-from-a-cross-border-conference-in-belfast/

“With our dignity high, no repression can stop us,” say Panamanian workers #WorkersMovement
https://mronline.org/2025/05/23/with-our-dignity-high-no-repression-can-stop-us-say-panamanian-workers/

(UK) In January, workers at Tower Hamlets' primary independent domestic violence service were threatened with redundancies. By unionising, they not only saved their jobs — they also defended the survivors who rely on their support. #WorkersMovement #Unions
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/finding-solace-in-organising/

Proletarian Disorganization as the Problem of Our Time. #BaseBuilding #WorkersMovement #Autonomism
https://communistcaucus.com/our-moment/

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So I've got this *thing* you see;
I'm making a #FreeSoftware simultaneous one-to-many voice translator.
The goal is to enable people of more diverse languages to actively participate in events, courses, general assemblies, etc in the #workersMovement in Norway and elsewhere.

I know Google Translate exists, but we can't exactly rely on sending our discussions about strategy and organizing for worker power, directly to the biggest surveillance capitalist in the world.

@kabrams You may find interesting this collection on the #WorkersMovement in #China and its century-long #dialectic with the #ChineseCommunistParty ( #CCP ).

#ProletarianChina #CenturyOfChineseLabour

https://madeinchinajournal.com/2021/12/01/proletarian-china/

A great doc about the worker's movement on Arte.tv (subtitled in english) here https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/082189-001-A/the-politics-of-manufacturing/

Unfortunately you'll need a VPN to view if you're outside Europe:)

Thanks @fruechtchen on Lemmy for posting

#socialism #workersmovement #artetv #lemmy

Second thing exciting to me this morning: oral history from a worker at a Honda plant in China.

http://chuangcn.org/journal/two/the-awakening-of-lin-xiaocao/

When I visited Guangzhou in 2014 with a group of Japanese labor activists/scholars before Xi's crack down, we met with workers, activists, scholars, and one or two sympathetic officials of the local branch of the official, state-controlled union. Broken up and driven underground now, but Germinal-like, still working & organizing.

#China
#workersmovement
#RankAndFile

Love this picture of my friend Yunoki san, who we all refer to as "legend" because of her decades of struggle for democratic unionism and women's liberation. In the first photo she's on strike against the merger of Showa Oil and Shell Oil, in 1984. The men are managers, monitoring and mocking her. In the second one she is at a May Day demo calling for parental leave for men and women and protesting firings.
https://www.asahi.com/articles/photo/AS20181210000851.html
#japan
#workersmovement
#womensliberation

Busy days, planning a symposium on worker coops and unions in Tokyo on Nov. 15. #workersmovement #solidarityeconomy #coopsnunions #labornotes