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    Media Strategies for Unions, a Wobbly's Take with Graham Kovich
    Podcast
    • May 7

    Media Strategies for Unions, a Wobbly's Take with Graham Kovich

    Graham Kovich joins the show to discuss varying media and communications strategies for increasing union power.
    On The Line w/ Daisy Pitkin
    Podcast
    • Apr 12

    On The Line w/ Daisy Pitkin

    Daisy Pitkin joins the show to discuss her book about labor organizing and solidarity, On The Line.
    Class Struggle Unionism [cross-over with Wobcast!]
    Podcast
    • Jan 11

    Class Struggle Unionism [cross-over with Wobcast!]

    Joe Burns discusses class struggle unionism on this joint episode between Laborwave Radio and Wobcast of Organizing Work.
    Intersectional Class Struggle
    Podcast
    • Dec 20, 2021

    Intersectional Class Struggle

    Michael Beyea Reagan discusses the characteristics of intersectional class struggle and shares insights around movement-building.
    Organizing the White Lotus
    Podcast
    • Dec 7, 2021

    Organizing the White Lotus

    Liz of Rebel Steps joins the show to discuss a fictional workplace campaign to unionize the hotel workers at the illustrious White Lotus!
    Shop Talk: Are They an Organic Leader or a Bootlicker?
    Podcast
    • Nov 16, 2021

    Shop Talk: Are They an Organic Leader or a Bootlicker?

    Andrea Haverkamp, a labor organizer based in Seattle, joins the show to talk shop about organic leaders, private vs public sector...
    State of Unions After Janus vs. AFSCME
    Podcast
    • Nov 1, 2021

    State of Unions After Janus vs. AFSCME

    Bill Fletcher Jr joins the show and discusses the need for "social justice unionism" in a post-Janus United States.
    Reviving the Strike
    Podcast
    • Oct 18, 2021

    Reviving the Strike

    Joe Burns joins the show to discuss the role militant traditional labor strikes have in revitalizing the labor movement.
    Lenin Was Wrong: Workplace Struggles Are Political
    Podcast
    • Oct 4, 2021

    Lenin Was Wrong: Workplace Struggles Are Political

    Marianne Garneau, publisher of Organizing.Work, joins the show to discuss her article Workplace Struggles Are Political.
    Beauty & the Beast: Servant Uprising!
    Podcast
    • Sep 20, 2021

    Beauty & the Beast: Servant Uprising!

    Graham Kovich joins the show to plan an organizing campaign for the servants in Beauty & the Beast!
    An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State
    Podcast
    • Sep 3, 2021

    An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State

    Eric Laursen joins the show to provide an analysis of the State as opposed to states and compares the modern state to an operating system.
    EWOC: Can Popular Education Help Organize One Million Workers?
    Podcast
    • Aug 22, 2021

    EWOC: Can Popular Education Help Organize One Million Workers?

    Eric Dirnbach joins the show to discuss his experience as an advanced organizer with EWOC, the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee.
    A Defense of Wanting to Shoot the Foreman: On Speed-Ups and Union Decline
    Podcast
    • Aug 9, 2021

    A Defense of Wanting to Shoot the Foreman: On Speed-Ups and Union Decline

    Gabriel Winant joins the show to discuss the decline of union power in the face of speed-ups and an expanding framework of labor relations.
    Comrades Read "Singlejack Solidarity" by Stan Weir
    Podcast
    • Jul 26, 2021

    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."
    You Say You Want A General Strike?
    Podcast
    • Jul 12, 2021

    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.
    Get Rid of No Strike Clauses and Stop Begging
    Podcast
    • Jun 28, 2021

    Get Rid of No Strike Clauses and Stop Begging

    Hamilton Nolan argues that the right to strike is the only thing that gives working people power, and unions need to stop bargaining it away
    Unionizing "The Office" (US Version) w/ Elizabeth Laycak
    Podcast
    • Jun 15, 2021

    Unionizing "The Office" (US Version) w/ Elizabeth Laycak

    Elizabeth Laycak joins the show to discuss how to unionize the Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. in Scranton, PA.
    Shop Floor Organizing at Amazon w/ Amazonians United Chicagoland
    Podcast
    • May 31, 2021

    Shop Floor Organizing at Amazon w/ Amazonians United Chicagoland

    Ruby and Zama, workers at Amazon and members of Amazonians United, join the show to discuss their methods of shop floor organizing.
    Union Democracy and Working Class Power Require Deep Organizing w/ Marybeth Seitz-Brown
    Podcast
    • May 11, 2021

    Union Democracy and Working Class Power Require Deep Organizing w/ Marybeth Seitz-Brown

    Marybeth Seitz-Brown joins the show to discuss how deep organizing is necessary for building robust union democracy and working class power.
    [Film Review] Lapsis, or Capitalism is a Ponzi Scheme
    Podcast
    • Apr 28, 2021

    [Film Review] Lapsis, or Capitalism is a Ponzi Scheme

    Comrades Andrea, Kali, Luke, and Nick join the show to discuss the film Lapsis, from writer/director Noah Hutton.
    Union Shop: Consider a "Salt-free" Meal w/ MK Lees
    Podcast
    • Apr 11, 2021

    Union Shop: Consider a "Salt-free" Meal w/ MK Lees

    MK Lees joins Laborwave Radio to discuss the strategy of "salting" a workplace to boost a union campaign.
    Ep. 2 Comrades Read A Syndicalist View on The Rank and File Strategy w/ Tom Wetzel
    Podcast
    • Mar 29, 2021

    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
    Podcast
    • Mar 16, 2021

    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.
    Ben Fletcher & the Legendary IWW Local 8 w/ Peter Cole
    Podcast
    • Mar 1, 2021

    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
    Talking Union Shop: Solidarity Unionism & the IWW w/ the One Big Podcast
    Podcast
    • Feb 15, 2021

    Talking Union Shop: Solidarity Unionism & the IWW w/ the One Big Podcast

    A collaboration with One Big Podcast discussing the particulars of solidarity unionism in contrast to business unionism.
    Work Won't Love You Back w/ Sarah Jaffe
    Podcast
    • Feb 1, 2021

    Work Won't Love You Back w/ Sarah Jaffe

    Sarah Jaffe joins Laborwave Radio to discuss her new book, Work Won't Love You Back from Bold Type Books.
    Organized Labor Shouldn't Expect Much from President Joe Biden w/ Alex Press
    Podcast
    • Jan 18, 2021

    Organized Labor Shouldn't Expect Much from President Joe Biden w/ Alex Press

    Alex Press, labor reporter and staff writer at Jacobin Magazine, joins the show to discuss Joe Biden's union credentials.
    The Union Busting Playbook & How To Fight It as told by workers at No Evil Foods
    Podcast
    • Jan 11, 2021

    The Union Busting Playbook & How To Fight It as told by workers at No Evil Foods

    Laborwave spoke with workers at No Evil Foods about the company's union busting strategy against an employee organized union campaign.
    Amazon Capitalism & Organizing the Giant w/ Jake Alimahomed-Wilson & Ellen Reese
    Podcast
    • Dec 30, 2020

    Amazon Capitalism & Organizing the Giant w/ Jake Alimahomed-Wilson & Ellen Reese

    Amazon Capitalism embodies all the worst features of exploitation, surveillance, and monopoly. Editors of The Cost of Free Shipping explain.
    The Future of the IWW: Building One Big Union w/ Nick Driedger & Marianne Garneau
    Podcast
    • Dec 15, 2020

    The Future of the IWW: Building One Big Union w/ Nick Driedger & Marianne Garneau

    The IWW is 115 years old! To celebrate we invited Marianne Garneau & Nick Driedger from Organizing Work organizing within the IWW.
    Malls After the Revolution w/ Shawn from Srsly Wrong
    Podcast
    • Nov 30, 2020

    Malls After the Revolution w/ Shawn from Srsly Wrong

    After the Revolution is inspired by the desire to offer more than what is wrong with today by focusing on what we might be about instead.
    Ep. 5 Comrades Read Together, No Shortcuts! w/ Andrea, Sarah, & Michael
    Podcast
    • Nov 18, 2020

    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."
    Class Power on Zero Hours w/ The Angry Workers
    Podcast
    • Nov 11, 2020

    Class Power on Zero Hours w/ The Angry Workers

    We spoke with members of the Angry Workers, a political collective, abouttheir recent PM Press title, "Class Power on Zero Hours"
    David Graeber: A Celebration & Discussion of Ideas w/ Tony Vogt & Shane Capra
    Podcast
    • Nov 1, 2020

    David Graeber: A Celebration & Discussion of Ideas w/ Tony Vogt & Shane Capra

    A celebration of the life and ideas of David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology.
    Reflections on Occupy Wall Street w/ Marina Sitrin & Vanessa Zettler
    Podcast
    • Oct 20, 2020

    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.
    A Look at the GEO Strike in Michigan Fighting the University's Reopening Plan
    Podcast
    • Oct 7, 2020

    A Look at the GEO Strike in Michigan Fighting the University's Reopening Plan

    Union demands for social justice are bread-and-butter issues, and GEO's strike shows how such demands builds engaged membership.
    Highlights from Three Years of Laborwave
    Podcast
    • Sep 29, 2020

    Highlights from Three Years of Laborwave

    To celebrate our three years we've put together this highlight reel featuring many guests from 2020!
    Ep. 4 Comrades Read Together "If We Can Change the White House, We Can Change the Hog House"
    Podcast
    • Sep 14, 2020

    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.
    Identity Politics and Elite Capture with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
    Podcast
    • Aug 31, 2020

    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.
    Ep. 3 Comrades Read Together: No Shortcuts chapters 3 & 4 w/ Ellen Kress & Andrea Haverkamp
    Podcast
    • Aug 25, 2020

    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?
    Podcast
    • Aug 18, 2020

    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
    Podcast
    • Aug 11, 2020

    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.
    Wildcat Strikes at University of California w/ Shannon Ikebe & Tara Phillips
    Podcast
    • Aug 4, 2020

    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.
    Waste After The Revolution w/ Andrea Haverkamp
    Podcast
    • Jul 11, 2020

    Waste After The Revolution w/ Andrea Haverkamp

    We will, after the revolution, use our current landfills as the new goldmines.
    Police, Technology, & Unions with Bill Fletcher Jr
    Podcast
    • Jun 16, 2020

    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.
    Rent Strikes w/ Liza Featherstone & Tenants United Corvallis
    Podcast
    • May 29, 2020

    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.
    Being Numerous: Non-fascist Life in a Crisis w/ Natasha Lennard
    Podcast
    • May 17, 2020

    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.
    May Day Amid A Plague w/ Sarah Jaffe
    Podcast
    • May 1, 2020

    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.
    The Political Party After The Revolution w/Gianpaolo Baiocchi
    Podcast
    • Apr 21, 2020

    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.
    Bigger Than Bernie: The Road To Democratic Socialism with Micah Uetricht
    Podcast
    • Apr 6, 2020

    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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