"Create two, three, many..." #RefuseWork #ToLive

Offering a few talks and workshops in Binghamton, Montreal, Chicago, and Online this spring (with more dates and details to come) and tabling with @commonnotions.bsky.social. Check it out: www.readingstruggles.info/post/spring-...

Excited to be part of this year’s @redmayseatttle with an event titled CLASS COMPOSITIONS IN A TIME OF FASCISM on 17 May organized as part of a new effort at @commonnotions.bsky.social. Can’t wait to share more details! And check out the full schedule: www.redmayseattle.org/2026-schedule.

It's official: Unions of Our Own will launch into the world from New York City, in the world's borough, at CUNY Law School, 6pm on 4/28 I'll be in conversation with one of the great journalists of the rank & file, Michelle Chen of @thenation.com @dissentmag.bsky.social, etc. + ample Q&A time

A Brief History of the Workers’ Inquiry out now on @commonnotions.bsky.social. Pick up a copy here: www.commonnotions.org/buy/brief-hi...

Another day, another must read book is added to my list. Today it is a new book on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. And thanks to the comrade who recommended it!

I talked to the brilliant Kathi Weeks about her new book, Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures, about Angela Davis, Shulamith Firestone, and Donna Haraway, and about abolishing work, the prison, and the family

Today at 1 PM EDT The Prairieland Verdict: What It Means and What You Need to Know About It www.youtube.com/live/sYtNoBt...

"'[A] new social order is needed and is coming—in fact, that it is already on the way' and 'the workers are the ones who will usher in this new order,' so say the first and third tenets of Brookwood Labor College in 1921."

Perusing old issues of #RadicalAmerica today. Two on Italy, a special issue on CLR James, and another that contains “Theses on mass worker and social capital” by Silvia Federici and Mario Montano under the “party name” Guido Baldi. Read them all: library.brown.edu/cds/radicala...

"EDUCATION, the spontaneous development of each member to [their] fullest capacity, the leading forth of [their] power and abilities to their utmost. Each member is taught to stand intellectually on [theor] own feet and to think honestly for [themselves]." YPSL Manual (1924)

Taking this to heart: "Find ways to combine narrative and analytical voices in your writing. This is hard to do but well worth working at. Adding context to storytelling will help, but it is still important to step back from the story to explain its causes and consequences."

“Writings about work by the people who do it.” Another day, another set of pamphlets to read. Stan Weir—autoworker, longshore rank-and-file activist, keen observer of informal work groups, and author—published Singlejack “Little Books” as a series to fit into shirt pockets.

New book days are the best days, especially when it’s the 1953 edition of "A Woman's Place" by Marie Bran[d]t (Selma James) and Ellen Santori (Filomena Daddario). #wagesdue

New from me at @jacobinmag.bsky.social: I look at the collusion American law enforcement has with the far-right and compare it to another important example: when the British state collaborated with loyalist death squads in their war against Irish Catholics. jacobin.com/2026/03/stat...

Pilgrimage to the site of the former Wages for Housework campaign office in Brooklyn with Silvia as my guide. #wagesdue #nyc

"[I]t is a precondition for the emancipation of the English working class to transform the present forced union (that is, the enslavement of Ireland) into an equal and free confederation, if possible, or complete separation, if need be." - Karl Marx on the Irish Question

Deadline extended 🚨 The Common City Conference (Uppsala, 26–28 Aug) now accepts abstracts until 11 April. Strong panels on tenant struggles, militant epistemologies, committed research, and urban conflict. www.uu.se/en/departmen...

Support the @bbiunion.bsky.social in their contract fight by boycotting Nestle owned Blue Bottle: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te... #UnionStrong

“Workers’ inquiries are identifying working-class self-activity in various sectors, understanding the class struggle from the working-class point of view, and allowing workers to develop their own knowledge of how their work is organized.” @NewPolMag newpol.org/using-worker...

“According to our decoding, through the noise of the apocalypse, we must see in the oil caverns, in the wisps of natural gas curling in subterranean abysses, something more familiar: the class struggle.” - George Caffentzis, The Work/Energy Crisis and the Apocalypse

Searching for an English language copy of Bruno Cartosio’s introduction to Marty Glaberman’s Classe operaia imperialismo e rivoluzione negli USA (Torino: Musolini, 1976). Anyone know if this has been translated from Italian into English?

New book days are the best days, especially when it’s the 1977 study of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. Along with Detroit I Do Mind Dying and original materials, this will aid me to write about the League and DRUM.

Yep, true then, true now. And you know what, over the next three decades, he deepened & broadened his analysis to demonstrate WHY & HOW capitalists were responsible, as well as workers' potential for replacing them with more sane ways of living in the world.

Minor Compositions – Fugitive Study, Autonomous Media Minor Compositions is now on the Internet Archive. 70 books, free. Not content: tools for study, struggle, and experimentation. Download, share, remix. Keep them moving. 🔗 www.minorcompositions.info?p=1863 🔗 archive.org/details/@min...

"Thus things have now come to such a pass that the individuals must appropriate the existing totality of productive forces, not only to achieve self-activity, but also merely to safeguard their very existence." - Marx and Engels, The German Ideology (Written in 1845–1846)

"The unions did not organize the strikes; the working class in the strikes and through the strikes organized the unions. The growth of successful organizations always followed strike activity when some workers engaged in militant activities and others joined them." -George Rawick

Holding history in your hands! Marty Glaberman’s well worn, dog eared, marked up copy of Marx’s Capital Vol. 1 published by Charles H. Kerr (@kerrbooks) in 1906 and reprinted in 1912.

"only when the routine daily struggle of the class explodes into violent activity against the bourgeoisie (the throwing of a foreman out of the window, the conflict with the police on the mass picket line, etc.), activities... that the workers feel themselves as human." #GLB 1947

New book days are the best days, especially when it’s a new French edition of The American Worker pamphlet! Take a peek: heros-limite.com/livres/louvr...

"Marx died today!" In 1883.

Everything about this trial from beginning to end has proven what we have said all along: this is a sham trial, built on political persecution and ideological attacks coming from the top.

"The only effective struggle against Fascism is the revolutionary struggle for universal man... The proletarian revolution must destroy every barrier which mediates between the workers and the objectively unfolded wealth of their human nature." — Ria Stone (Grace Lee Boggs)

“After over 20 years working grocery retail, unionizing my store with my coworkers, and talking to other retail workers across the country, I’ve learned that grocery workers across our industry face similar challenges," Maeg from @traderjoesunited.bsky.social shared with us.

The inspriation for the title of the book I'm currently writing: "'reading' the struggles is absolutely necessary, especially in a class society where they permeate almost every facet of life, yet do not speak their names" - George Caffentzis (April 2009)

The Minor Compositions Podcast began on Firefly Frequencies as a kind of semi-clandestine radio experiment. Now, all 42 episodes of Season One are available everywhere. We don’t need more heroes. We do need more conversations. Listen, share, conspire.

"We miss Asad greatly, and we remain inspired by him. We also take comfort in the knowledge that his life’s work – the search for truth, political and philosophical – will be carried on by so many others who were lucky enough to encounter him." Remembering Asad: histcon.ucsc.edu/people/alumn...

“Documenting what we already know is broken, finding out it's broken everywhere, and using that information to build real power,” Janet from @NSLU_PDX shared.

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CHICAGO! Heat the Ground up Join us for a discussion on how the historic @sbworkersunited.org strikes were organized. With @inthesetimes.com and @labornotes.bsky.social. Stream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKhl... .

For the Scontras Center for Labor and Community Education, Kevin Van Meter (@americanwork47.bsky.social) and I wrote a report on the state of organized labor in Maine. Here are some of our findings 👇

“[H]ad I so interfered in behalf of the Rich, the Powerful, the Intelligent, the so–called Great, or in behalf of any of…that class, and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference, it would have been all right.” A pilgrimage to John Brown’s body last weekend!

Support the Prairieland Defendants... as the future of political freedom in America is on trial in North Texas!!

"A week after @NSLU_PDX members received their proper wage increase, per the collective bargaining agreement, New Seasons Market laid-off 95 union and nonunion workers." Support these workers here: www.nslu.org/layoff-fund?...

Thanks for having us on! To learn more about our union, head to bluebottleunion.org

“State of the Unions in Maine provides a basic understanding of unionization rates, wage differentials, economic and labor market trends, and demographic data on Maine’s workers for scholars, policy makers, union leaders, and of course workers themselves.”

Grocery workers are sharing their experiences and organizing with their coworkers to share too. So far we have responses from workers in New Seasons Labor Union, UE, and UFCW. Join the conversation here: bit.ly/groceryinquiry

ARE YOU A GROCERY WORKER? What do grocery workers think? What do we want? Participate in our workers' inquiry by sharing your experiences, organize with other grocery workers to share too, and join in the conversation! @traderjoesunited.bsky.social

New book days are the best days, especially when its CLR James's "The Nobbie Stories for Children and Adults" and a gift from my sweetheart!