China’s Balancing Act With Labor

What’s a labor union when the boss is the government? Young Chinese workers are acting to find out.

Libertarian ‘Regression’

Response to a criticism of left-libertarianism posted at The Libertarian Standard by Juan Fernando Carpio.

Cooperative Economy in Salinas

Kevin Carson on the cooperative economy of the Ecuadorean Andes.

When a Union Acts Like a Big Corporation

Carl Finamore’s report from S.E.I.U.’s civil trial against a California break-away union.

Radical Healthcare Reform: An Anarchist Approach (Video)

A talk by Gary Chartier for the Center for a Stateless Society on his article of the same name posted here; how to cut the cost of care by abolishing monopoly privilege.

Part One (10:21):

S.E.I.U. Puts Squeeze on Workers Who Want to Organize

The Service Employees International Union (S.E.I.U.) have spent a “an estimated $10 million to sue 26 individuals who are former officers, organizers and staffers of S.E.I.U.’s third-largest chapter, the California-based United Healthcare Workers West (U.H.W.)”—whose board voted to break away soon after the Big Labor giant seized control.

Chomsky’s Lectern: Answering Questions Submitted by reddit Users

Professor Noam Chomsky answers the ‘top questions’ from reddit.com on cognitive science, the contemporary ‘anarchist movement’, objectives and strategies against tyranny, how the State is eliminating ‘public’ services and enhancing corporate welfare and asks the community a question in closing (31:54):

Workplace Direct Action and Libertarian Theory

Brad Spangler: Direct action in the workplace does not have to mean sabotage that destroys property.

Mutualism: An Interview With Kevin Carson

The Isocracy Network interviews Mr. Carson on the theory and practice of mutualism, worker self-management, anarchist thinkers and his critics.

Radical Healthcare Reform: An Anarchist Approach

Professor Gary Chartier on: ‘promoting access, affordability, and choice by ending privileges for corporations, professionals, and the otherwise politically connected’.

‘The Story of Emma Goldman’ (Video)

Emma Goldman (1869-1940) played an integral role in further defining libertarian philosophy, but even more as an uncompromising activist against statist economics and the beginning of the warfare Empire. She laid the roots for a rational feminist movement when women were not accepted as capable of being anywhere near rational. Her writings and life show us that she never took an institution asserting authority as self-justifying. She was the person Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley, said inspired him to do so.

Known as an ‘anarcha-feminist’ to many, an advocate for liberty, reason, individualism, mutual cooperation, homesteading, atheism, free speech, female emancipation, sexual freedom, birth control, morally just insurrection, against politics, politicians, and the conscription of the working class on behalf of the oligarchs. A Russian immigrant exiled from the U.S. after three decades of life for her opposition to U.S. involvement in World War I. With her flaws, she’s one of the relatively few true heroes (heroines) in a U.S. history full of villains.

Part One: “Arriving in America” (9:26):

Chomsky’s Lectern: The Obama-Geither Plan (Video)

‘Plan is recycled Bush/Paulson. We need steps towards democratization.’

Market Anarchism: Government Regulation and the Financial Crisis

Portland, OR radio show interviews anarchist activist William Gillis and historian Shawn Wilbur about market anarchism, left-libertarianism,  the State’s relations with labor.

Chomsky’s Lectern: On Anarchism, Elections, and the Problem of Crime (Video)

An interview with Prof. Chomsky in his office on a potpourri of subjects, centering on anarchism.

Michael Albert on Participatory Economics

A Nov. ’01 lecture by libertarian socialist and market abolitionist Michael Albert, co-author of Parecon: Life After Capitalism, on the rational anarchist alternative to capitalism.