Collected Works

Collected works of author, labor educator, and union organizer Kevin Van Meter.

Forthcoming

• Book Preface: Van Meter, Kevin. “Preface.” in Rebels for the System: NGOs, Capitalism and the Labor Movement, Robert Ovetz. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2026.  

• Book: Van Meter, Kevin. Reading Struggles: Working-Class Self-Activity from Detroit to Turin and Back Again. Chico, CA: AK Press.

• Edited Collection: Van Meter, Kevin. The American Worker: International History, Reception, and Responses.

2025

• Workers' Inquiry: Pyne, Alex, Kevin Van Meter, and Anastasia Wilson. “Class Composition in the Café Sector: What do cafe workers in the United States think and do while at work?," Part 1 and Part 2, Notes from Below, 30 July (2025).

• Review Article: Van Meter, Kevin. "George Caffentzis: Class-Warrior, Philosopher, Poet," New Politics, Online Edition, 30 June (2025).

2024

• Book Collection: Lydersen, Kari, Robert Ovetz, Chris Sturr, Kevin Van Meter, and the Dollars & Sense Collective, eds. Real World Labor, Fourth Edition. Boston: Dollars & Sense.

• Interview: Van Meter, Kevin. “Fighting Antisemitism Today—An Interview with Shane Burley and Ben Lorber,” New Politics, Online Edition, 13 August (2024).

• Article: Van Meter, Kevin. “Labor Education for All Workers,” New Politics, Online Edition, 1 April (2024).

• Review Article: Van Meter, Kevin. “Troublemaking Goes International,” Work-Bites, 25 March (2024).

2023

• Article: Van Meter, Kevin. “Searching for The American Worker,” New Politics Magazine, Print Edition, 75 (Summer 2023); Online Edition.

• Op-Ed: Van Meter, Kevin, "Representing difficult members," Op-Ed in The Chief Leader: A Voice for Workers, Online Edition, 25 April (2023); Print Edition, 28 April (2023

• Op-Ed: Overtz, Robert and Kevin Van Meter, "Advice to new labor organizers," Op-Ed in The Chief Leader: A Voice for Workers, Online Edition, 5 April (2023); Print Edition, 7 April (2023).

• Article: Overtz, Robert and Kevin Van Meter, “Management Rights, Workers Wronged,” Dollars & Sense Magazine (March / April 2023).

• Op-Ed: Overtz, Robert and Kevin Van Meter, “It’s time to fight management rights,” Op-Ed in The Chief Leader: A Voice for Workers, Online Edition, 25 January (2023); Print Edition, 27 January (2023).

• Article: Van Meter, Kevin. “Viewpoint: Burgerville Workers’ Lessons for Independent Unions,” Labor Notes, Online Edition, 25 January (2023); Print Edition, February (2023).

2022

• Article: Van Meter, Kevin. “We Should Demand Democratic Workplaces, But What Does That Mean?,” New Politics, Online Edition, 26 December (2022).

• Interview: Van Meter, Kevin. “Antifascism, Historically And In The Present—An Interview With Shane Burley," New Politics, Online Edition, 14 December (2022).

• Article: Van Meter, Kevin. “Union Organizing at ‘Progressive’ Companies Comes With Its Own Set of Challenges,” Truthout, 24 August (2022).

2021

• Interview: Van Meter, Kevin. “Anti-Fascism Is Not Simply a Moral Objection—It Is a Practical One, Interview with Shane Burley,” Truthout, 14 May (2021).

2007-2020

• Van Meter, Kevin. “How the Poor Continue to Die,” Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, 17 September (2020).

• Van Meter, Kevin. “Opinion: Money for golden parachutes, not students’ needs, show Portland State’s priorities,” The Oregonian / OregonLive.com, 13 June (2019).

• Book: Van Meter, Kevin. Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible. Oakland: AK Press, 2017.

• Van Meter, Kevin. “The Meaning of ‘1984’ and ‘Brave New World’ in These Trumpian Times,” Speakout | Truthout, Online Edition, 15 February (2017).

• Van Meter, Kevin. “Insurgent Islands: A Continuing Conversation on Anarchism with Principles,” Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, Online Edition, 9 November (2015).

• Van Meter, Kevin. “Freely Disassociating: Three Stories on Contemporary Radical Movements,” Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, Online Edition, 8 June (2015).

• Van Meter, Kevin. “Refusing the Planetary Work Machine,” Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, 27 (2014).

• Larson, Stevie and Kevin Van Meter. “Black Flags and Radical Relief Efforts in New Orleans: An Interview with scott crow.” In Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective, second edition, scott crow. Oakland: PM Press, 2014; Originally in Left Eye on Books, November (2011).

• Van Meter, Kevin. “A Curious Moment: Long Island Radicals Confront the Green Scare.” In Life During War Time: Resisting Counterinsurgency, Kristian Williams, Lara Messersmith-Glavin, and William Munger, eds. Oakland: AK Press, 2013.

• Hughes, Craig, Stevie Larson, and Kevin Van Meter (Team Colors Collective). “Messy hearts made of thunder: Occupy, Struggle, and Radical Community Organizing.” In We Are Many: Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation, Kate Khatib, et. al. eds. Oakland: AK Press, 2012.

• Van Meter, Kevin. “To Care is to Struggle,” Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, 26 (2012).

• Holtzman, Benjamin and Kevin Van Meter. “Furthering Transformative Justice, Building Health Movements: An interview with Philly Stands Up,” Organizing Upgrade, October (2012).

• Holtzman, Benjamin and Kevin Van Meter. “Minding Your Scope, Building Healthy Movements: An Interview with the Rosehip Medic Collective,” Organizing Upgrade, November (2011).

• Holtzman, Benjamin and Kevin Van Meter “Building Healthy Communities, Building Healthy Movements: An Interview with the Rock Dove Collective,” Organizing Upgrade, February (2011).

• Hughes, Craig, Stevie Larson, and Kevin Van Meter (Team Colors Collective). “Lions After Slumber” Occupy Anarchy!. Munster, Germany: Edition Assemblage, 2012; Originally in @Anarchy and Occupy, 1 (2011).

• Book: Hughes, Craig, Stevie Larson, and Kevin Van Meter (as Team Colors Collective). Wind(s) from Below: Radical Community Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible. Portland, OR: Eberhardt Press and Team Colors, 2010; UK Edition: Brighton, UK: Natterjack Press, 2011. (Out of Print)

• Edited Collection: Hughes, Craig, Stevie Larson, and Kevin Van Meter, eds. (Team Colors Collective). Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements and Current Political Composition in the United States. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2010.

• Book Chapter: Hughes, Craig, Stevie Larson, and Kevin Van Meter (Team Colors Collective). “High Entropy Workers Unite!” In Toward the Last Jubilee: Midnight Notes at Thirty, Craig Hughes, ed. Brooklyn, Autonomedia and Washington, DC: Perry Editions, 2010.

• Hughes, Craig, Stevie Larson, and Kevin Van Meter (Team Colors Collective). “Abandoning the Chorus: Checking Ourselves a Decade Since Seattle,” Groundswell Journal, 1 (2010).

• Hughes, Craig, Stevie Larson, and Kevin Van Meter (Team Colors Collective). “To Show the Fire and the Tenderness: Self-Reproducing Movements and Struggle In, Around, And Against the Current Crisis in the United States,” Indypendent Reader, Summer (2009).

• Hughes, Craig, Stevie Larson, and Kevin Van Meter (Team Colors Collective). “Of Whirlwinds and Wind Chimes: Movement Building and Militant Research in the United States,” Commoner: A Web Journal for Other Values, February (2008); German Edition: Arranca!, 36 (2009).

• Van Meter, Kevin. “Special Low Frequency Version,” Sounds of the War on the Poor, Ultra Red, eds. (2009); Text and Field Recording.

• Online Collection: Hughes, Craig, Stevie Larson, and Kevin Van Meter, eds. (Team Colors Collective). In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement and Movements. Los Angles: The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, 2008.

• Book Chapter: Holtzman, Benjamin, Craig Hughes, and Kevin Van Meter “DIY and the Movement Beyond Capitalism,” Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations // Collective Theorization, David Graeber and Stevphen Shukaitis, with Erika Biddle, eds. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2007; Originally published in Radical Society, 30, 1 (2004), April; Lithuanian Edition: Juddrastis, 1 (2008).