Politics

"Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political...

Eric Dirnbach joins the show to discuss premajority unionism, where you don't need to wait around to act like a union.

Back from hiatus with a no holds barred takedown of every popular argument for reviving the power of organizing labor!

Matthew Dimick, Professor of Law at the University of Buffalo, joins the show to respond to recent debate over the Wagner Act.

Toni Gilpin joins the show to discuss her book, The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War.

Nick Driedger joins the show to discuss the legacy and ideas of William Z. Foster.

Marianne Garneau, publisher of Organizing.Work, joins the show to discuss her article Workplace Struggles Are Political.

Marianne Garneau discusses her article in Organizing.Work, "You Say You Want a General Strike?" Re-issued with improved audio quality.

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

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

Marina Sitrin and Vanessa Zettler are contributors to the recent title Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During the COVID-19 Crisis.

To celebrate our three years we've put together this highlight reel featuring many guests from 2020!

Elites get outsize control over the ideas in circulation about identities by the same methods that they get control over everything else.

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.

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.

What would it look like if we ushered ourselves through the world and held each other in our porousness, wateriness, our interdependency.

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

After the Revolution is a mini-series exploring the possibilities of a future society where we have won the revolution.

Bernie's campaign should show that there is also a way to do electoral politics that spurs class struggle.

Wherever there are queer people working to eradicate expropriation that's Queer Marxism.

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.

We need to be able to conceive of human life in which people are not dependent on wages for survival.

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

Paige Kreisman is running for the Oregon legislature in 2020 on a democratic socialist platform.

What precisely is a general strike, and do they accomplish the robust social changes proponents imagine?

Abolitionist university studies positioned against academia.

We reproduce the audio from adrienne maree brown's keynote address on Pleasure Activism at Opening Space for the Radical Imagination II,...

We spoke with Bill Fletcher, Jr on the need for "social justice unionism" in a post-Janus United States.

We spoke with AK Thompson about his recent book, Premonitions: Selected Essays on the Culture of Revolt. Our conversation touched on...

We interviewed Dr. Jose Antonio Orosco on the political animation which animated the Mexican Revolution.

We spoke with writer and activist Hillary Lazar on the connections between border politics and antifascism, applying intersectional...