Archive of ideas & action Articles

ideas & action was begun in 1982 as an independent anarcho-syndicalist magazine, becoming the magazine of Workers Solidarity Alliance with issue #5 (after formation of WSA in November, 1984), and continuing through the publication of issue #17 in the mid-'90s.

#3 -- Spring 1983

  • Altered States?
    by R. Dennis Hayes
  • Depression in the '80: What's the Cause?
    by Tom Wetzel

#4 -- Spring 1984

#5 -- Winter 1985

#6 -- Fall, 1985

  • Not Free and Equal: A Review of Women and Revolution
    by Tom Wetzel
  • Spain's Port Workers Practice Direct Democracy
    by Tom Wetzel
  • Watsonville Cannery Strike
    by Tom Wetzel
  • Free Time: The Case for a Shorter Workweek
    by Tom Wetzel

#7 -- Fall 1986

#8 -- Spring 1987

#9 -- Spring 1988

#10 -- Fall 1988

  • Repetitive Strain Injury: What It Is, Why It Happens
    by Tom Wetzel
  • Primitive Thought
    by Chaz Bufe

#11 -- Summer 1989

#12 -- Fall, 1989

  • Technology, the Environment & Workers' Control
    by Tom Wetzel

#13 -- Spring 1990

  • Los Angeles Derailed: Why the System Degrades Public Transit
    by Tom Wetzel

#14 -- Fall 1990

  • The Case Against the Auto
    by Tom Wetzel

#15 -- Spring 1991

  • The Health Care Nightmare
    by Mike Kolhoff

#16 -- Fall 1991

#17 -- Winter 1997

  • Living in the USA -- Some Thoughts
    by Make Harris