I have seen the future and it works
I returned a few weeks ago from a month-long journey to Australia and New Zealand, countries in which the trade union movement has taken some huge steps forward in its use of the new communications…
Two Funerals, Two Americas
Ronald Reagan and Victor Reuther were born only months apart in the years before the first world war. They both died last weekend in America, aged 92 and 93. One is being mourned by the…
Trade unions in the electronic workplace
Submission to the Adelaide International Workplace Conflict Conference, 21-23 April 2004, Adelaide, Australia.
Hooked on ebooks
You can also listen to this essay on Radio LabourStart or read it in print in next month’s issue of Labour Research. Seven Stories Press is a US publisher you probably never heard of. But…
Why we don’t give: Online donations and international solidarity
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…
Wireless Wobblies, Proletarian Palmtops: Organizing and Campaigning on the Wireless Internet
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…
Haiti: What we learned from the net
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…
Global unions need to speak global languages
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…
Are teachers “terrorists”?
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…
How Internet Radio Can Change the World
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…