You can also read it this essay in print in next month’s issue of Industrial Worker. One of the great things the Internet allows organizations to do is raise money. Any organization can easily and…
Unions are rarely, if ever, on the bleeding edge of technology. If you’re ever nostalgic to see what computers looked like several years ago, just wander into a trade union office. For many reasons (and…
Sometimes it really does just hit you. The Internet really does change the way we look at things. I was struck by this as I look back upon the recent tumultuous events in Haiti. Watching…
In the last few months, LabourStart has added two new languages (Danish and Finnish) to its editions. The online global labour news service is now available in twelve languages. And there are more on the…
I had to read this story twice to be sure it wasn’t a joke. Yesterday, at a private meeting with U.S. governors in the White House, George Bush’s Secretary of Education, Rod Paige, called the…
The Wobblies taught the labour movement to sing. I was reminded of this a couple of years ago in the city of Inchon, South Korea. I was part of an international delegation of people from…
As I write these words, it’s becoming increasingly likely that John Kerry is going to be the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in 2004. I was looking at Kerry’s website the other day and was struck…
I don’t know if anyone else is picking up on this, but computer viruses are increasingly becoming a class issue. An article in today’s newspaper revealed that the author of the Mydoom virus which is…
The annual labor website of the year competition — which the IWW won four years ago — has led me to discover many strange and wonderful websites. Some of these are more strange than wonderful….
In late 1997, I had an idea. Why not sponsor a “Labour Website of the Year” competition? My book on “The Labour Movement and the Internet: The New Internationalism” had come out a year earlier….