Comrades Read Together

William Z. Foster: A Critical Examination on his Methods and Strategies

Lucas Carpenter and Tim Shields join the show to do a deep dive over Foster's proposed methods for effective labor organizing.

Comrades Read "Singlejack Solidarity" by Stan Weir

Stan Weir operated by the creed that one should not "let people feel that their job is to sit back and admire somebody else."

Ep. 2 Comrades Read A Syndicalist View on The Rank and File Strategy w/ Tom Wetzel

Tom Wetzel joins Laborwave Radio to discuss a syndicalist critique of Kim Moody's rank and file strategy.

Ep. 1 Comrades Read Kim Moody's Rank and File Strategy

We discuss the "Rank and File Strategy" a popular 30-page pamphlet written by Kim Moody in 2000 for the publication Solidarity.

Ep. 5 Comrades Read Together, No Shortcuts! w/ Andrea, Sarah, & Michael

Our conversation circles largely around the question of, what Marx famously described, "class in itself" vs. "class for itself."

Ep. 4 Comrades Read Together "If We Can Change the White House, We Can Change the Hog House"

Connecting movement histories to fight against fracture, imposing accountability, and hard questions for the IWW and DSA.

Ep. 3 Comrades Read Together: No Shortcuts chapters 3 & 4 w/ Ellen Kress & Andrea Haverkamp

Ellen Kress and Andrea Haverkamp talk chapters 3 & 4 of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power by Jane McAlevey.

Ep. 2 Comrades Read Together w/ Nick Driedger: No Shortcuts, But to Where?

Driedger asks the tough questions about the political horizons achievable under a labor relations framework.

Comrades Read Together- No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey

Comradely discussion about the first two chapters of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey.