THE WORKERIST MANIFESTO

  The Workerist Manifesto by Gregory A. Butler About the Book The average American private sector worker produces about $200,000 worth of goods or services a year…. but only gets paid $35,000 in gross pre tax wages in return (in a country where you need to make $100,000 a year to support a family of 4 at a middle income standard of living). Why does this country’s 161 million strong working class continue to tolerate that? This book sets out to answer that question. About the Author ABOUT THE AUTHOR – Gregory A. Butler is a longtime labor activist in New York City. He got his first unionized job in February 1986, has been a member of the United Food and Commercial Workers, United Brotherhood of Carpenters, American Federation of Teachers and the International Union of Operating Engineers, was a shop steward in the UBC for 17 years and a union delegate in the IUOE for 3 years. This is his third book: his previous works were DISUNITED BROTHERHOODS …race, racketeering and the fall of...

  What is socialism from below? only the self-emancipation of the working class can lead to the world we want. What is socialism from below? - Tempest Socialism from below - Tempest

  The New Left and the Army: Let’s Bridge the Gap! (1968) During the U.S. war on Vietnam, an extraordinary phenomenon arose within the military’s ranks: the widespread production, circulation, and readership of an underground antiwar press for, and often by, rank-and-file GIs

  Against Purgatory Against Purgatory - Tempest

  Anarchy Is Boring “Anarchist people say, ‘Abolish the cops.’ But in this kind of society, you can’t just do that. How are you going to go help vulnerable people if they’re being attacked?  You need to create a healthy community before you can get there. You talk about smashing the state and getting rid of capitalism, but if you want to keep this level of complexity, you can’t have that. The only way you can have it is to get rid of mass society, of modern mass society.” - John Zerzan Anarchy Is Boring The Platypus Affiliated Society – Reflections on Seattle 1999: An interview with John Zerzan

  Taylorism Between the Two Wars: Some Problems Taylorism Between the Two Wars: Some Problems (1983) - Viewpoint Magazine

  LA GRAN MARCHA - When Millions Marched for Immigrant Rights The 2006 mega-marches against legislation to criminalize the undocumented revealed the hidden power of immigrant workers When Millions Marched for Immigrant Rights - The Call

  Algeria: from liberation to dictatorship Algeria: from liberation to dictatorship – Solidarity Online Six decades since Algeria’s war of independence | Socialist World Media Algerian War of Independence 1954–1962 - ISA How French Imperialism Was Defeated in Algeria - Revolutionary Communists of America

  Bourgeois versus workers’ democracy, or Why We Should Throw Kautsky Out With the Bathwater Two Trends in the American Socialist Movement: Why We Should Throw Kautsky Out With the Bathwater - Revolutionary Communists of America

  The Bronx Still Burns The borough’s arson wave in the 1970s was caused by financial forces and political priorities that continue to hold power in New York City. The Bronx Still Burns - Dissent Magazine

  Worker insurgency and the New Deal Worker insurgency and the New Deal - Tempest

  The DSA vs. establishment Democrats or, is it "White Supremacist", "racist" or "anti Black" to be anti gentrification and against war crimes in the Gaza Strip? AIPAC-REBNY corporate Democrats are losing working class Black voters to democratic socialist candidates, and they are not happy about that at all The DSA vs. establishment Democrats : It's Been a Minute : NPR Is DSA Racist? - Political Currents by Ross Barkan There’s a New Democratic Machine. It’s Unabashedly Socialist. Opinion: No one’s boosted Latino politics like DSA - City & State New York

  The Popular Front: the Deadest of Dead-End Strategies The Popular Front: the Deadest of Dead-End Strategies - New Politics

  The New Deal and the Popular Front The New Deal and the Popular Front | International Socialist Review

  Locked and Loaded for the Status Quo: How the Second Amendment Serves the State Locked and Loaded for the Status Quo: How the Second Amendment Serves the State : r/sociology

  The New York elections and the political role of the Democratic Socialists of America The New York elections and the political role of the Democratic Socialists of America - World Socialist Web Site After NYC elections, Jacobin offers services of DSA to Democratic establishment, union bureaucracy - World Socialist Web Site

  Outline of US Labor History with a Focus on the Role of the Left Outline of US Labor History with a Focus on the Role of the Left | libcom.org

  Build a Fighting, Militant Labor Movement and a Workers’ Party to Take on the Capitalist Class Build a Fighting, Militant Labor Movement and a Workers’ Party to Take on the Corporate Class – Independent Socialist Group How a New, Union-Backed Workers’ Party Could Win In the Next Elections – Independent Socialist Group Building a Fighting Labor Movement – Independent Socialist Group

  Against the Cult of Personality: César Chávez and the United Farm Workers Against the Cult of Personality: César Chávez and the UFW | Workers' Liberty

  The Class Struggle and the American Working Class The Class Struggle and the American Working Class | The Communist