"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.

Lucas Carpenter and Tim Shields join the show to do a deep dive over Foster's proposed methods for effective labor organizing.

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

Graham Kovich joins the show to discuss varying media and communications strategies for increasing union power.

Daisy Pitkin joins the show to discuss her book about labor organizing and solidarity, On The Line.

Joe Burns discusses class struggle unionism on this joint episode between Laborwave Radio and Wobcast of Organizing Work.

Michael Beyea Reagan discusses the characteristics of intersectional class struggle and shares insights around movement-building.

Liz of Rebel Steps joins the show to discuss a fictional workplace campaign to unionize the hotel workers at the illustrious White Lotus!

Andrea Haverkamp, a labor organizer based in Seattle, joins the show to talk shop about organic leaders, private vs public sector...

Bill Fletcher Jr joins the show and discusses the need for "social justice unionism" in a post-Janus United States.

Joe Burns joins the show to discuss the role militant traditional labor strikes have in revitalizing the labor movement.

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

Graham Kovich joins the show to plan an organizing campaign for the servants in Beauty & the Beast!

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.

Eric Dirnbach joins the show to discuss his experience as an advanced organizer with EWOC, the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee.

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.

Stan Weir operated by the creed that one should not "let people feel that their job is to sit back and admire somebody else."

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

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

Elizabeth Laycak joins the show to discuss how to unionize the Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. in Scranton, PA.

Ruby and Zama, workers at Amazon and members of Amazonians United, join the show to discuss their methods of shop floor organizing.

Marybeth Seitz-Brown joins the show to discuss how deep organizing is necessary for building robust union democracy and working class power.

Comrades Andrea, Kali, Luke, and Nick join the show to discuss the film Lapsis, from writer/director Noah Hutton.

MK Lees joins Laborwave Radio to discuss the strategy of "salting" a workplace to boost a union campaign.

Tom Wetzel joins Laborwave Radio to discuss a syndicalist critique of 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.

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

A collaboration with One Big Podcast discussing the particulars of solidarity unionism in contrast to business unionism.

Sarah Jaffe joins Laborwave Radio to discuss her new book, Work Won't Love You Back from Bold Type Books.

Alex Press, labor reporter and staff writer at Jacobin Magazine, joins the show to discuss Joe Biden's union credentials.

Laborwave spoke with workers at No Evil Foods about the company's union busting strategy against an employee organized union campaign.

Amazon Capitalism embodies all the worst features of exploitation, surveillance, and monopoly. Editors of The Cost of Free Shipping explain.

The IWW is 115 years old! To celebrate we invited Marianne Garneau & Nick Driedger from Organizing Work organizing within the IWW.

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.

Our conversation circles largely around the question of, what Marx famously described, "class in itself" vs. "class for itself."

We spoke with members of the Angry Workers, a political collective, abouttheir recent PM Press title, "Class Power on Zero Hours"

A celebration of the life and ideas of David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology.

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

Union demands for social justice are bread-and-butter issues, and GEO's strike shows how such demands builds engaged membership.

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

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

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.

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.