He was tapping why? why? why?
Why didn’t they want him? Why were they shutting the lid of the coffin against him? Why didn’t they want him to speak? Why didn’t they want him to be seen? Why didn’t they want him to be free? It was five maybe six years now since he had […]

I grew up in Western Pennsylvania, in a coal mine/steel mill region. I graduated from high school in ‘67. At that time, you couldn’t really get a job in the mills or mines unless you had a draft exemption. About the only way to get a draft exemption was going to college or getting married. […]

- A novel about work, management and going postal.
It was seven days before Christmas. In some parts of California there was snow on the ground, but not in this valley. It had not snowed here for twenty years.
The brand new Cadillac pulled up to the curb next to the administrative employee’s entrance of the sprawling […]

A friend who was in the U.S. military during the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War told me that before President G.H.W. Bush visited the troops in Saudi Arabia, enlisted men and women who would be in Bush’s immediate vicinity had their rifle and pistol ammunition taken away from them. This was supposedly done to avoid “accidents.” […]

I went in through the loading dock. Asshole was coming towards me from the walk-in. I punched my time card and put it back in the slot, feeling him rush past as I headed into the office.
I sat at his desk and counted the money in my cash drawer. When he came in I kept […]

- a book about our lives and the power over them.
Yarostan and Sophia work in a factory in eastern Europe. They live, argue and take action. The workers rebel, a general strike, an armed uprising, They rule at the streets and in the factory, argue about the future, for a moment the world belongs […]

Everyday resistance at a Swedish bakery
For almost two years I was employed at a bakery in southern Sweden, together with about 160 others; bakers, cleaners and mechanics included. From the first day of work, I was told that the bakery was under the threat to be closed down, and, indeed, with time, […]

The emancipation of the working class can not only be conquered by the working class themselves but the emancipating practices of the working class are its own making too. So the question about workers autonomy isn’t primarily a political question but a question about organization and this article deals with concrete and actual workers autonomy […]

The Interest in sabotage in the United States has developed lately on account of the cage of Frederic Sumner Boyd in the state of New- Jersey, as an aftermath of the Paterson strike. Before his arrest and conviction for advocating sabotage, little or nothing was known of this particular form of labor […]

American Worker är en berättelse och analys av tillvaron i och runt den industriella produktionen i 50-talets USA. Texten är självklart ett barn av sin tid och det finns aspekter som vi både kan dra lärdom av och som samtidigt måste ses i sitt historiska sammanhang. Där finns Andra Världskrigets närhet och strejkvågorna som följde […]