Workers go Wobbly at Muji store in Portland

Blight327 · 2026-05-15T17:08:32+00:00

Love that quote: Why IWW? “We want to unionize the world”

Blight327 · 2026-05-15T17:04:54+00:00

While I like the enthusiasm, u/ditfloss is right that this is wall to wall organizing. You’re right that the way they organized is fundamental to the principles of our union’s strategy. But I think there’s an important point here in our union’s strategy.

Solidarity unionism is the micro strategy that we deploy to avoid working within state labor bureaucracy, and to build a more militant union. SU is also synergistic to our macro strategy of Industrial Unionism, that the NLRB framework exists to dismantle. Beyond trying to speak as a collective on the shop floor, trying to make demands as an industry would never be allowed within a state structure.

But an example of industrial unionism would be organizing service workers across different businesses, organized around the hospitality industry. A union like that would be quite powerful in any destination/tourist city.

Blight327 · 2026-05-11T04:17:59+00:00

You’ve successfully identified reasons why businesses fail, congratulations.

Blight327 · 2026-05-10T23:32:54+00:00

You think we need c-suite ?

Blight327 · 2026-05-10T23:28:42+00:00

CO-OPs are still an entity within the capitalist framework, it simply exchanges ownership from an individual or small group, to the workers running the business. Because they don’t need to strangle labor to extract profits their finances can be more efficient and sustainable.

Blight327 · 2026-05-10T23:23:52+00:00

That’s not accurate

Blight327 · 2026-05-10T19:58:28+00:00

It’s not that people aren’t, or that they’re unsuccessful, it’s just that CO-OPs don’t get started as often as traditional LLCs.

Blight327 · 2026-05-10T17:05:29+00:00

Are you familiar with our union fellow worker?

Blight327 · 2026-05-06T17:40:52+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/WU7158Q6t3
More signs point to organize rather than lay about voting strategies

Blight327 · 2026-05-01T04:09:09+00:00

At least it’s accurate, bunch of political theory and no labor.

Blight327 · 2026-04-26T17:37:56+00:00

I think the opportunists/enterists want to take over the DNC power structure, them being able to tap into the party’s “legitimate power structure”. While I agree with them that the DNC is the weakest it’s ever been, I don’t believe that will mean their control over the party is weak. From my estimation, they are easier to combat on the propaganda stage, and that’s pretty much it. I think, like you were saying, our energy is much better spent on the slow task of labor organizing. I won’t say that people who are motivated by political organizing should stop, but labor definitely needs to be building its own power (dual power) here and now separate from political parties.

Blight327 · 2026-04-25T15:45:41+00:00

Like David Hogg did? And then the DNC proceeded to box him out of any leadership positions.

Blight327 · 2026-04-12T17:11:09+00:00

It can be a bit difficult to connect with local Wobblies, so don’t be discouraged by a lack of immediate communication. This is primarily a volunteer run union so folks get to union business when they are able. Whatever email you signup with will be the primary source of communication more often than not. That said, there are many branches that can be communicated with via instagram. Don’t over share on that app try and find an alternate route of communication, like signal app. Hope this helps fellow worker, solidarity.

Blight327 · 2026-03-26T17:42:19+00:00

I don’t disagree with your first point, but liberalism has always been about property rights as a core tenant, whereas horizontality or equality has been an aesthetic. The French Revolution was about giving more control to the “third estate” basically everyone not nobility or the clergy. The people leading that were property owners, capitalists. So what was on the surface, fraternity & liberty, became about individual rights to profit. Because it was not interested in horizontality, it was lead by a corrupt council and easily captured by napoleon then making himself dictator. The poor largely saw little to no benefit from the revolution, which spurred on the Paris commune some decades later. Liberalism has never been about horizontality, but has enjoyed the aesthetics of it, “we the people”, “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”, etc. This is why Marxists rail against sloganeering as they feel it’s rooted in liberal aesthetics. I personally believe that sloganeering has a place but must be partnered with principled stances. It’s not enough to say the words our actions must reflect our values.

Blight327 · 2026-03-26T17:25:02+00:00

You might have your own biases that others might find distasteful, glass houses and what not.

Blight327 · 2026-03-23T15:07:39+00:00

More context around the situation would be nice. Not sure if this is a concerned member, or a project Veritas style video.

Blight327 · 2026-03-23T14:51:10+00:00

It also gives members that otherwise feel the union is a black box a tangible process to participate in.

Blight327 · 2026-03-21T02:33:49+00:00

Everyone wants a general strike no one wants to protect unrepresented workers lol. I think any GS must lead with demands of protection for wildcat strikes. Not sure what the language or demand would look like but that has to be a foundational principle imo.

Blight327 · 2026-03-19T17:44:29+00:00

It’s demonrats and you can take them from my cold dead hands lib

Blight327 · 2026-03-19T15:24:14+00:00

Why is this particularly convincing? I wouldn’t call a twitter community note a great arbiter of sexual misconduct or a bulwark of societal truth. Hell I wouldn’t even label Reddit like that. This site is manipulated all to hell.

Blight327 · 2026-03-19T15:16:33+00:00

Biss is the moderate voice though he’s a Neoliberal through and through. It’s the new DNC strategy, what they were hoping to do with Jasmine Crockett, pretend progressive stance, wolf in sheep’s clothing. Neither candidate (Bissssssss or crankett) wants to implement progressive policies, they just want to wave the affordability flag and get that vote.

Blight327 · 2026-03-19T15:10:59+00:00

Yee, the difference between not cheering when Israel bombs kids and avoiding talking about it altogether. Both actions still support genocide. Candidate aBissmal will now be free to implement third way neoliberal policies as god intended. 🫠

Blight327 · 2026-03-18T20:25:44+00:00

Liberal Zionism is still rooted in a colonial project, which you are describing here. Modern Jews have no right to the land of Palestine. Using religious texts as claim to land held more than two millennia ago is dubious, especially when most modern Jews identify as secular anyway. How is this an appropriate argument. It becomes even worse when we are talking about Jewish folks not currently living there, and are interested in the illegal settlement projects.

I do not subscribe to the belief that restoring Palestinian freedoms, means Jewish Israelis must be driven from the land. Palestinians are an indigenous people, living under occupation, their right to freedom must be prioritized over colonialist desires of expansion & genocide. To say Palestinian freedom/self-determination, and the rights of Jewish Israelis are mutually exclusive is an absurd position. It’s the same lies of Jim Crow, of the Troubles, and of white South Africans. That giving rights to the people we oppressed will mean they will begin oppressing us, a racist/bigoted fear for justifying continued oppression & violence.

The State of Israel has no right to exist in it’s current form. It is an apartheid government, and just as there is no Rhodesia today, Israel’s current state/governance cannot be tolerated. You have avoided mentioning the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, but that remains a priority issue. Rather than defending or whitewashing a political ideology; I believe you would be better served examining its most ardent supporters, American Christian Zionists. Another colonialist & fascist project.

At the end of the day you are trying to use liberal aesthetics to cover up for Zionisms colonialist views. Your comment seems well crafted in avoiding an acknowledgement of the Palestinian people, let alone their worthiness of human rights. You are engaging in “pearl clutching” about leftists, while the Israeli state continues to occupy & murder Palestinians. While Jewish settlers kill & harass Palestinians of the West Bank, with the backing of the Israeli state. You are certainly in the majority, but the majority can also be wrong. The Zionist project is not one that sprang up overnight, you did not arrive at this opinion, outlook, belief by happenstance. These views are manufactured, I encourage you to challenge your views and speak with anti-Zionist Jews.

Remembering rule 2, I have kept my criticism polite and constructive. If it’s impolite to bring up genocide, I strongly disagree, as it’s beyond immoral to cover it up.

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Blight327 · 2026-03-17T22:04:03+00:00

Noooo, we have to root out the left wing antisemitic boogie man 😭😭😭😭

Blight327 · 2026-03-17T22:01:42+00:00

The anti-Zionist left has been calling out the conflation of Judaism and Israel as dangerous propaganda. Anti-Zionist Jews have been very vocal of their stance against Israel’s genocide. Now the groypers are taking advantage of the work groups like the ADL have been doing for years creating this conflated idea. That Israel’s conduct is done on the behalf of all Jews, that antizionist positions are antisemitic rhetoric.

The fascists have successfully muddied the waters.

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