PodcastMay 7Media Strategies for Unions, a Wobbly's Take with Graham KovichGraham Kovich joins the show to discuss varying media and communications strategies for increasing union power.
PodcastApr 12On The Line w/ Daisy PitkinDaisy Pitkin joins the show to discuss her book about labor organizing and solidarity, On The Line.
PodcastJan 11Class Struggle Unionism [cross-over with Wobcast!]Joe Burns discusses class struggle unionism on this joint episode between Laborwave Radio and Wobcast of Organizing Work.
PodcastDec 20, 2021Intersectional Class StruggleMichael Beyea Reagan discusses the characteristics of intersectional class struggle and shares insights around movement-building.
PodcastDec 7, 2021Organizing the White LotusLiz of Rebel Steps joins the show to discuss a fictional workplace campaign to unionize the hotel workers at the illustrious White Lotus!
PodcastNov 16, 2021Shop 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...
PodcastNov 1, 2021State of Unions After Janus vs. AFSCMEBill Fletcher Jr joins the show and discusses the need for "social justice unionism" in a post-Janus United States.
PodcastOct 18, 2021Reviving the StrikeJoe Burns joins the show to discuss the role militant traditional labor strikes have in revitalizing the labor movement.
PodcastOct 4, 2021Lenin Was Wrong: Workplace Struggles Are PoliticalMarianne Garneau, publisher of Organizing.Work, joins the show to discuss her article Workplace Struggles Are Political.
PodcastSep 20, 2021Beauty & the Beast: Servant Uprising!Graham Kovich joins the show to plan an organizing campaign for the servants in Beauty & the Beast!
PodcastSep 3, 2021An Anarchist Theory of the Modern StateEric Laursen joins the show to provide an analysis of the State as opposed to states and compares the modern state to an operating system.
PodcastAug 22, 2021EWOC: 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.
PodcastAug 9, 2021A Defense of Wanting to Shoot the Foreman: On Speed-Ups and Union DeclineGabriel Winant joins the show to discuss the decline of union power in the face of speed-ups and an expanding framework of labor relations.
PodcastJul 26, 2021Comrades Read "Singlejack Solidarity" by Stan WeirStan Weir operated by the creed that one should not "let people feel that their job is to sit back and admire somebody else."
PodcastJul 12, 2021You 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.
PodcastJun 28, 2021Get Rid of No Strike Clauses and Stop BeggingHamilton Nolan argues that the right to strike is the only thing that gives working people power, and unions need to stop bargaining it away
PodcastJun 15, 2021Unionizing "The Office" (US Version) w/ Elizabeth LaycakElizabeth Laycak joins the show to discuss how to unionize the Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. in Scranton, PA.
PodcastMay 31, 2021Shop Floor Organizing at Amazon w/ Amazonians United ChicagolandRuby and Zama, workers at Amazon and members of Amazonians United, join the show to discuss their methods of shop floor organizing.
PodcastMay 11, 2021Union Democracy and Working Class Power Require Deep Organizing w/ Marybeth Seitz-BrownMarybeth Seitz-Brown joins the show to discuss how deep organizing is necessary for building robust union democracy and working class power.
PodcastApr 28, 2021[Film Review] Lapsis, or Capitalism is a Ponzi SchemeComrades Andrea, Kali, Luke, and Nick join the show to discuss the film Lapsis, from writer/director Noah Hutton.
PodcastApr 11, 2021Union Shop: Consider a "Salt-free" Meal w/ MK LeesMK Lees joins Laborwave Radio to discuss the strategy of "salting" a workplace to boost a union campaign.
PodcastMar 29, 2021Ep. 2 Comrades Read A Syndicalist View on The Rank and File Strategy w/ Tom WetzelTom Wetzel joins Laborwave Radio to discuss a syndicalist critique of Kim Moody's rank and file strategy.
PodcastMar 16, 2021Ep. 1 Comrades Read Kim Moody's Rank and File StrategyWe discuss the "Rank and File Strategy" a popular 30-page pamphlet written by Kim Moody in 2000 for the publication Solidarity.
PodcastMar 1, 2021Ben Fletcher & the Legendary IWW Local 8 w/ Peter ColePeter 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
PodcastFeb 15, 2021Talking 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.
PodcastFeb 1, 2021Work Won't Love You Back w/ Sarah JaffeSarah Jaffe joins Laborwave Radio to discuss her new book, Work Won't Love You Back from Bold Type Books.
PodcastJan 18, 2021Organized Labor Shouldn't Expect Much from President Joe Biden w/ Alex PressAlex Press, labor reporter and staff writer at Jacobin Magazine, joins the show to discuss Joe Biden's union credentials.
PodcastJan 11, 2021The Union Busting Playbook & How To Fight It as told by workers at No Evil FoodsLaborwave spoke with workers at No Evil Foods about the company's union busting strategy against an employee organized union campaign.
PodcastDec 30, 2020Amazon Capitalism & Organizing the Giant w/ Jake Alimahomed-Wilson & Ellen ReeseAmazon Capitalism embodies all the worst features of exploitation, surveillance, and monopoly. Editors of The Cost of Free Shipping explain.
PodcastDec 15, 2020The Future of the IWW: Building One Big Union w/ Nick Driedger & Marianne GarneauThe IWW is 115 years old! To celebrate we invited Marianne Garneau & Nick Driedger from Organizing Work organizing within the IWW.
PodcastNov 30, 2020Malls After the Revolution w/ Shawn from Srsly WrongAfter 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.
PodcastNov 18, 2020Ep. 5 Comrades Read Together, No Shortcuts! w/ Andrea, Sarah, & MichaelOur conversation circles largely around the question of, what Marx famously described, "class in itself" vs. "class for itself."
PodcastNov 11, 2020Class Power on Zero Hours w/ The Angry WorkersWe spoke with members of the Angry Workers, a political collective, abouttheir recent PM Press title, "Class Power on Zero Hours"
PodcastNov 1, 2020David Graeber: A Celebration & Discussion of Ideas w/ Tony Vogt & Shane CapraA celebration of the life and ideas of David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology.
PodcastOct 20, 2020Reflections on Occupy Wall Street w/ Marina Sitrin & Vanessa ZettlerMarina Sitrin and Vanessa Zettler are contributors to the recent title Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During the COVID-19 Crisis.
PodcastOct 7, 2020A Look at the GEO Strike in Michigan Fighting the University's Reopening PlanUnion demands for social justice are bread-and-butter issues, and GEO's strike shows how such demands builds engaged membership.
PodcastSep 29, 2020Highlights from Three Years of LaborwaveTo celebrate our three years we've put together this highlight reel featuring many guests from 2020!
PodcastSep 14, 2020Ep. 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.
PodcastAug 31, 2020Identity Politics and Elite Capture with Olúfẹ́mi TáíwòElites get outsize control over the ideas in circulation about identities by the same methods that they get control over everything else.
PodcastAug 25, 2020Ep. 3 Comrades Read Together: No Shortcuts chapters 3 & 4 w/ Ellen Kress & Andrea HaverkampEllen Kress and Andrea Haverkamp talk chapters 3 & 4 of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power by Jane McAlevey.
PodcastAug 18, 2020Ep. 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.
PodcastAug 11, 2020Comrades Read Together- No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAleveyComradely discussion about the first two chapters of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey.
PodcastAug 4, 2020Wildcat Strikes at University of California w/ Shannon Ikebe & Tara PhillipsYou can't calculate everything and predict the outcome in advance. You have to experiment and see what's possible for workers.
PodcastJul 11, 2020Waste After The Revolution w/ Andrea HaverkampWe will, after the revolution, use our current landfills as the new goldmines.
PodcastJun 16, 2020Police, Technology, & Unions with Bill Fletcher JrAs an institution police exist to repress and defend property and wealth. It's not in any way a progressive role.
PodcastMay 29, 2020Rent Strikes w/ Liza Featherstone & Tenants United CorvallisTwo part episode featuring tenant organizers discussing rent strikes in Oregon, along with a conversation with journalist Liza Featherstone.
PodcastMay 17, 2020Being Numerous: Non-fascist Life in a Crisis w/ Natasha LennardWhat would it look like if we ushered ourselves through the world and held each other in our porousness, wateriness, our interdependency.
PodcastMay 1, 2020May Day Amid A Plague w/ Sarah JaffeWe already know because of the climate catastrophe that we need to radically reshape the economy. Now we've seen that we can.
PodcastApr 21, 2020The Political Party After The Revolution w/Gianpaolo BaiocchiAfter the Revolution is a mini-series exploring the possibilities of a future society where we have won the revolution.
PodcastApr 6, 2020Bigger Than Bernie: The Road To Democratic Socialism with Micah UetrichtBernie's campaign should show that there is also a way to do electoral politics that spurs class struggle.