This year on May Day, a group of Sudbury-based organizers published the first issue of Workers Struggle-Sudbury (WS-S). WS-S is a monthly publication featuring interviews with Sudbury workers. Tomorrow, June 1st, we’re publishing the June issue. We’re committed to publishing WS-S for one year, and then we’ll re-evaluate next May Day, to see if our theory that this publication is needed has been validated in practice. This winter we interviewed workers and continue to do so. The May issue of WS-S featured an interview with a hospital laundry worker, the June issue features an interview with a trucker and the July issue will feature an interview with a garbage collection worker.
Why interview Sudbury workers? The fundamental contradiction of society is between capital and labour. Workers don’t have to declare themselves to be anti-capital – they are anti-capital. Our wage represents a small but important victory in this struggle, but it is not enough! Workers are entitled to everything we create, but capitalists are the most organized class in history and it is their interests that win the day each and every day. They are a despicable and ruthless class. They’re attacking all other classes from all directions. We must organize and fight for our own interests, in our workplaces, where the fundamental contradiction is most palpable. And we must organize autonomously outside the structures that capitalists provide for us, including professional unions, the electoral process and NGOs. Autonomy is the ability to practice our values, the peoples’ values. It’s organizing for our own interests. What are our interests? What furthers them and what doesn’t? We can decide together while building an autonomous working class-led organization with different classes working together to fight capitalism.
To visit the WS-S website: http://www.workersstrugglesudbury.com/
To go directly to the June issue of WS-S: http://www.workersstrugglesudbury.com/WorkersStruggle-Sudbury_June2015.html
Or directly to the May issue: http://www.workersstrugglesudbury.com/WorkersStruggle-Sudbury_May2015.html
If you’d like to subscribe to WS-S, provide feedback, be interviewed, or organize with us, please do get in touch: info@workersstrugglesudbury.com. If you like this publication, an easy way to help is to share it with others!
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The Sudbury working-group of The Media Co-op was formed to create independent media in the North, to speak to our issues and outlooks on our communities as well as the world around us. Independent media provides an avenue for people who are wishing to gain critical perspective on the issues that matter most to us, and to give a voice to those people and stories that you won't find in the mainstream media.
The Sudbury working-group site is no longer being updated and has been archived.