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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...

Labor Rights or Labor Freedoms? A Conversation with Matthew Dimick

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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.

William Z. Foster: A Critical Examination of his Theories and Politics

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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.

Class Struggle Unionism [cross-over with Wobcast!]

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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.

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

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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...

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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.

Lenin Was Wrong: Workplace Struggles Are Political

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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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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.

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

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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.

Ep. 1 Comrades Read Kim Moody's Rank and File Strategy

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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.

Class Power on Zero Hours w/ The Angry Workers

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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

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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

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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.

Identity Politics and Elite Capture with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

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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.

Being Numerous: Non-fascist Life in a Crisis w/ Natasha Lennard

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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.

Towards a Queer Marxist Future with Holly Lewis

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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.

Race and Class in the Age of Trump with Asad Haider

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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.

Imagining A Better Utopia: Seizing Spaces of Revolutionary (Re)production w/ Alex Riccio

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Imagining A Better Utopia: Seizing Spaces of Revolutionary (Re)production w/ Alex Riccio

Trump’s rise to power represents a battle over utopia where the right-wing has so far proved victorious.

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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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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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Women's Strike, Reconsidered with Marianne Garneau

We spoke with Marianne Garneau, editor of Organizing Work, on why for strikes to be effective they must have specific targets tied to...

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Black Womxn's Safety with Zoé Samudzi

Excerpt from Zoé Samudzi's keynote address at Opening Space for the Radical Imagination on the prospects of living in a world where Black...

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Wages for Housework and #MeToo with Silvia Federici

Autonomist feminist scholar Silvia Federici (Caliban and the Witch)outlines the Wages for Housework campaign and theoretical...

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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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