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Revaluing the Strike w/ Erik Baker
"Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political...
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LABORWAVE RADIO
Anti-Capitalist Labor Organizing
Politics
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Premajority Unionism with Eric Dirnbach
Eric Dirnbach joins the show to discuss premajority unionism, where you don't need to wait around to act like a union.
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How to Revive the Labor Movement w/ Marianne Garneau
Back from hiatus with a no holds barred takedown of every popular argument for reviving the power of organizing labor!
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Labor Rights or Labor Freedoms? A Conversation with Matthew Dimick
Matthew Dimick, Professor of Law at the University of Buffalo, joins the show to respond to recent debate over the Wagner Act.
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The Long Deep Grudge
Toni Gilpin joins the show to discuss her book, The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War.
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William Z. Foster: A Critical Examination of his Theories and Politics
Nick Driedger joins the show to discuss the legacy and ideas of William Z. Foster.
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Lenin Was Wrong: Workplace Struggles Are Political
Marianne Garneau, publisher of Organizing.Work, joins the show to discuss her article Workplace Struggles Are Political.
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You Say You Want A General Strike?
Marianne Garneau discusses her article in Organizing.Work, "You Say You Want a General Strike?" Re-issued with improved audio quality.
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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.
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Ben Fletcher & the Legendary IWW Local 8 w/ Peter Cole
Peter Cole joins the show to discuss the second edition of his book Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly published by PM Press
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Reflections on Occupy Wall Street w/ Marina Sitrin & Vanessa Zettler
Marina Sitrin and Vanessa Zettler are contributors to the recent title Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During the COVID-19 Crisis.
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Highlights from Three Years of Laborwave
To celebrate our three years we've put together this highlight reel featuring many guests from 2020!
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Identity Politics and Elite Capture with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Elites get outsize control over the ideas in circulation about identities by the same methods that they get control over everything else.
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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.
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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.
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Wildcat Strikes at University of California w/ Shannon Ikebe & Tara Phillips
You can't calculate everything and predict the outcome in advance. You have to experiment and see what's possible for workers.
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Police, Technology, & Unions with Bill Fletcher Jr
As an institution police exist to repress and defend property and wealth. It's not in any way a progressive role.
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Rent Strikes w/ Liza Featherstone & Tenants United Corvallis
Two part episode featuring tenant organizers discussing rent strikes in Oregon, along with a conversation with journalist Liza Featherstone.
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Being Numerous: Non-fascist Life in a Crisis w/ Natasha Lennard
What would it look like if we ushered ourselves through the world and held each other in our porousness, wateriness, our interdependency.
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May Day Amid A Plague w/ Sarah Jaffe
We already know because of the climate catastrophe that we need to radically reshape the economy. Now we've seen that we can.
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The Political Party After The Revolution w/Gianpaolo Baiocchi
After the Revolution is a mini-series exploring the possibilities of a future society where we have won the revolution.
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Bigger Than Bernie: The Road To Democratic Socialism with Micah Uetricht
Bernie's campaign should show that there is also a way to do electoral politics that spurs class struggle.
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Towards a Queer Marxist Future with Holly Lewis
Wherever there are queer people working to eradicate expropriation that's Queer Marxism.
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Boots Riley on Power, Art, and the Radical Dr. King
Even for us as organizers the nature of power under capitalism has been obscured. Power doesn't just get shamed into doing the right thing.
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Race and Class in the Age of Trump with Asad Haider
We need to be able to conceive of human life in which people are not dependent on wages for survival.
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Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity: The Life of Noel Ignatiev with Jarrod Shanahan
By taking the “poison bait of white privilege” the white worker forfeits the ability the wage struggle in the medium to long term.
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Democratic Socialism In The Oregon Legislature w/ Paige Kreisman
Paige Kreisman is running for the Oregon legislature in 2020 on a democratic socialist platform.
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You Say You Want A General Strike? w/ Marianne Garneau
What precisely is a general strike, and do they accomplish the robust social changes proponents imagine?
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Abolition Studies Against Academia w/ Eli Meyerhoff & Zach Schwartz-Weinstein
Abolitionist university studies positioned against academia.
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Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good with adrienne maree brown
We reproduce the audio from adrienne maree brown's keynote address on Pleasure Activism at Opening Space for the Radical Imagination II,...
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State of Unions after Janus with Bill Fletcher, Jr
We spoke with Bill Fletcher, Jr on the need for "social justice unionism" in a post-Janus United States.
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Premonitions on the Culture of Revolt with AK Thompson
We spoke with AK Thompson about his recent book, Premonitions: Selected Essays on the Culture of Revolt. Our conversation touched on...
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Utopia, Dystopia, and the Mexican Revolution
We interviewed Dr. Jose Antonio Orosco on the political animation which animated the Mexican Revolution.
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Border Politics, Antifascism, and the Tangled Knot of Oppressions with Hillary Lazar
We spoke with writer and activist Hillary Lazar on the connections between border politics and antifascism, applying intersectional...
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