Unions

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

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

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

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

You can't calculate everything and predict the outcome in advance. You have to experiment and see what's possible for workers.

As an institution police exist to repress and defend property and wealth. It's not in any way a progressive role.

Two part episode featuring tenant organizers discussing rent strikes in Oregon, along with a conversation with journalist Liza Featherstone.

We already know because of the climate catastrophe that we need to radically reshape the economy. Now we've seen that we can.

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.

By taking the “poison bait of white privilege” the white worker forfeits the ability the wage struggle in the medium to long term.