New Syndicalist

Direct Action

Occupy the Server Room: How Tech Workers Are Weaponizing the Sit-Down Strike Against Silicon Valley's Union Busters

From warehouse floors in Bessemer to open-plan offices in Seattle, a new generation of tech workers is reaching back to the 1930s playbook and finding that workplace occupation remains one of labor's most potent weapons. The sit-down strike, once thought a relic of the industrial era, is being reimagined for the digital economy—and corporate America is not prepared for it.

Jul 29, 2026

Economic Democracy

Reclaiming the Heartland: Worker Cooperatives Are Quietly Rebuilding Post-Industrial Communities Across Rural America

Across the hollowed-out manufacturing towns and agricultural communities of the Midwest and South, a quiet revolution in economic ownership is underway. Worker-owned cooperatives and syndicalist-aligned enterprises are not merely filling the voids left by corporate disinvestment—they are demonstrating, in practical terms, that democratic ownership produces more durable and equitable outcomes than the extractive models that preceded them.

Jul 29, 2026