ideas & action Archive

Old WSA statement of principles prior to April 2008
This was published in issue #12 of ideas & action and in a couple of other issues.

Archive of ideas & action Articles

ideas & action was created in July, 1981 as an independent anarcho-syndicalist magazine. After Workers Solidarity Alliance was founded in November, 1984, ideas & action became the magazine of WSA (with issue #5), and continuing through the publication of issue #17 in 1997. The magazine is currently suspended.

#1 -- Winter, 1982 Trotskyism and the Myth of the "Workers State" by Bruce Allen More theses on Marxism by Steve Rabinowitz The ACF Experience: Hey, General Custer, why were we there? by Ed Clark The Decline and Fall of the ACF by Steve Rabinowitz
#2 -- Summer, 1982 Poland: Revolution Self-limited by Bruce Allen Preoccupying Concessions (and Shutdowns) by Dennis Hayes
#3 -- Spring 1983 Altered States? by R. Dennis Hayes Depression in the '80: What's the Cause? by Tom Wetzel
#4 -- Spring 1984 Leave the Slave-Driving to Us: A Look at the Greyhound Strike by Chris Fillmer Spanish Libertarian Unionism Today by Tom Wetzel Yugoslavia: Model of Workers' Self-management? by Elias Wolf WAR: Why there are wars and what we can do to stop them by Libertarian Workers Group We want freedom for all: A Jewish Anarchist statement by the Jewish Anarchist Committee Economic Realities in the '80s: Part II by Tom Wetzel Solidarnosc and Revolutionary Unionism by Adam Borsuk
#5 -- Winter 1985 Anarchism & Marxism: A Dialogue The Principles of Revolutionary Unionism
#6 -- Fall, 1985 Not Free and Equal: A Review of Women and Revolution by Tom Wetzel Spain's Port Workers Practice Direct Democracy by Tom Wetzel Watsonville Cannery Strike by Tom Wetzel Free Time: The Case for a Shorter Workweek by Tom Wetzel
#7 -- Fall 1986 Workers Power & the Spanish Revolution by Tom Wetzel Slaughterhouse Fight: A Look at the Hormel Strike by Steve Boyce, Jake Edwards and Tom Wetzel Sidebar: UFCW: Strategy of Appeasement by Tom Wetzel and Jake Edwards What Will the Working Class Do without Bosses? by Don Fitz
#8 -- Spring 1987 Small Is Not Beautiful: Life at the Bay Guardian by Tom Wetzel Abolish the INS! by Chaz Bufe KMU: A Look at Philippine Unionism by Kim Scipes
#9 -- Spring 1988 On Organization by Tom Wetzel
#10 -- Fall 1988 Repetitive Strain Injury: What It Is, Why It Happens by Tom Wetzel Primitive Thought by Chaz Bufe Why does the Union Bureaucracy exist? Part II: The Rise of the CIO by Tom Wetzel From Stalin to Solidarity: Three Novels of "Socialist" Poland by Martin Comack 1988 Anarchist Gathering: Talk, Networks and Fun by Jack Straw Labor Pains by Mike Harris
#11 -- Summer 1989 Italy 1920 by Tom Wetzel Sidebars: Mussolini & Syndicalism Gramsci & Syndicalism The Origins of the Union Shop by Tom Wetzel Spanish Dock Workers Build Union without Bureaucrats by Don Fitz
#12 -- Fall, 1989 Technology, the Environment & Workers' Control by Tom Wetzel
#13 -- Spring 1990 Los Angeles Derailed: Why the System Degrades Public Transit by Tom Wetzel
#14 -- Fall 1990 The Case Against the Auto by Tom Wetzel
#15 -- Spring 1991 The Health Care Nightmare by Mike Kolhoff The dogs of ware are loose and hungry by Ivan Kalita The Reorganization of Workby Mike Kolhoff Noam Chomsky on the War Interview by Nick Keirn Child Care: Interview with Anna Marie Stenberg by Bill Meyers Blues at tne News: (Craft) Unionism at the Crossroads by Neal Farber Labor Pains by Mike Harris
#16 -- Fall 1991 On Imperialist Barbarism & the Need for World Democracy by Tom Wetzel 1 -- The Destruction of Iraq: Why? 2 -- The Rise and Decline of the American Empire 3 -- Every Nation-State Is Imperialist By Nature 4 -- For National Autonomy within a World-wide Democracy San Francisco's Queer Street Patrol by Ed Elhauge Where We Stand by WSA
#17 -- Winter 1997 Living in the USA -- Some Thoughts by Mike Harris