On Leadership
On Leadership, by Phinneas Gage Miguel was charismatic. Middle aged yet still handsome, a principled family man, an open communist and refugee from Chile. He was part of the left, of the left, of the...
View ArticleQuestions about Leadership
Questions About Leadership By Nate Hawthorne What is leadership? What makes someone a leader? Why should we care who is a leader? Who should be a leader? What should leaders do? What is good...
View ArticleReplace Yourself
Replace Yourself by J. Pierce The primary task of an organizer is to build more organizers. We need more and more working class leaders and the way to do this is to constantly replace yourself. Here’s...
View ArticleStan Weir — Unions with Leaders Who Stay on the Job
In his article “Replace Yourself,” J. Pierce recommends “reveal your sources so others can think with you” and “encourage other members to read what you’ve read.” This latest post — Stan Weir’s “Unions...
View ArticleBuilding radical unionism: Providing services without creating service unionism
Recomposition’s newest post is “Building radical unionism: Providing services without creating service unionism,” by Adam W. This wasn’t intentional when the article was initially put in the list of...
View Article“Workers have to deal with their own reality and that transforms them” by...
“Workers have to deal with their own reality and that transforms them” by Martin Glaberman C. L. R. James I belonged to a group around C. L. R. James. James pioneered the idea of working-class...
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Towards A Wobbly Methodology: Establishing Yourself as an Organizer in a New...
By X370559 This essay is the second in a series articulating a methodological framework for developing Wobbly organizers and identifying key features of workplace committee building at the micro...
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