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We'll let you know when to come back - First hand account of Kermit Johnson, rank and file chairman for the strike committee during the Flint sit down strike of 1936-37

  We'll let you know when to come back -  First hand account of Kermit Johnson, rank and file chairman for the strike committee during the Flint sit down strike of 1936-37 We'll let you know when to come back - Kermit Johnson | libcom.org
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NONUNION TOWN – the fall of the New York City construction unions, 1969-2026

  NONUNION TOWN – the fall of the New York City construction unions, 1969-2026 The City of New York has over 1 million occupied buildings, worth a total of $1.57 trillion dollars, the most valuable pool of real property on the face of the Earth. All of that value is created by New York City’s 400,000 construction workers (the largest construction workforce in America and 4% of this country’s 10 million construction workers). Those buildings are maintained by the city’s 200,000 janitors and stationary engineers, 100,000 security officers and 50,000 hotel workers. Those 750,000 workers maintain these one and a half trillion dollars worth of capital in usable condition, and help keep the city’s 8,000 big landlords wealthy. They don’t get a whole lot in return – 300,000 of those construction workers, 75%, are non union and are paid an average of $20 an hour.   Around a third of those non union workers are paid off the books, with many of those workers being undocumented ...
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The Anarchist-Style Politics of DSA

  The Anarchist-Style Politics of DSA Like many anarchist movements before it, the Democratic Socialists of America has hit on a successful tactic spurring its growth, but like them DSA risks collapsing when its tactic no longer works The Anarchist-Style Politics of DSA - by Arun Gupta
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Conservative Marxism

  Conservative Marxism This wreckage podcast with Sean KB and AP Andy present Ralph Leonard on restoring the revolutionary Marxism that died on August 4, 1914 E315: Conservative Marxism w/ Ralph Leonard | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
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This Labor Day, Let’s Remember Labor’s Forgotten Fight—Shorter Hours and Control Over Work Time

  Labor This Labor Day, Let’s Remember Labor’s Forgotten Fight—Shorter Hours and Control Over Work Time We’re working more for less. Instead, we should fight to work less for more. This Labor Day, Let’s Remember Labor’s Forgotten Fight—Shorter Hours and Control Over Work Time - In These Times
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AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UNLIVABLE WAGES

  AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UNLIVABLE WAGES  high rents, low pay and the deunionization of publicly subsidized housing construction in New York City Construction workers call out use of 'body shops' at city-funded construction site - The Chief Construction unions again push for $40 wage package  - The Chief OP-ED: Construction Justice Act would lift living standard 99-Apartment Building Boom Makes 99 Problems for NYC Housing Crisis | The City Reporter — NYC News Why It Costs So Much To Build in New York City | Vital City In NYC, Affordable Housing and Good Jobs Must Go Together - City & State New York BRING BACK PUBLIC HOUSING the only way to get housing affordable for the poor and the working class, built by workers being paid what they are worth | GANGBOX: Construction Workers News Service THE INVOLUNTARY PHILANTHROPISTS how low wage non union construction workers subsidize New York City’s real estate developers | GANGBOX: Construction Workers News Service HIGH RENTS, LOW...
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Grifters, Cons, and the IWW

  Grifters, Cons, and the IWW labor racketeering and the collapse of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1924 Grifters, Cons, and the IWW – Industrial Worker Industrial suicide: understanding the 1924 split of the Industrial Workers of the World - Cameron Molyneux | libcom.org 1924 Split of the Industrial Workers of the World - IWW History Project The Legacy of the IWW | International Socialist Review
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Building Power at the Point of Production - For a Blue-Collar, Working Class Socialist Movement

  Building Power at the Point of Production - for a blue-collar, working class socialist movement  the importance of building a socialist movement based among industrial workers Building Power at the Point of Production - Left Voice The struggle at the point of production in 2021 - Workers' Voice/La Voz de los Trabajadores (workersvoiceus.org) For a Blue-Collar, Proletarian Socialist Movement - Cosmonaut (cosmonautmag.com) Is This the Left that Jacobin Wants?: Chris Maisano’s Perilous Drift Towards Post-Marxism Notes on the Evolution of the Industrial Proletariat  | International Worker's League E255 - How the Left Lost the W…–This Wreckage – Apple Podcasts THE RANK AND FILE STRATEGY....OR THE UNION STAFF JOB STRATEGY? DSA, the labor movement and the working class | GANGBOX: Construction Workers News Service New ‘Battery Belt’ Opens Organizing Front in the South | Labor Notes
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How the Left Lost the Working Class w/ Gregory Butler

  E255 - How the Left Lost the Working Class w/ Gregory Butler This Wreckage by Sean KB and AP Andy Episode notes Audio from ILC' s first Independent Labor Assembly July 7th, 2024 assembly at Talon Bar in Brooklyn with guest Gregory Butler For the full episode, Discord access, and all our bonus content, support the show at http:///patreon.com/theantifada The Independent Labor Club is an organization that seeks to bring workers together from all over to build bonds of free association and strengthen the power of labor. Our guest speaker Gregory A. Butler is a lifelong New Yorker as well as a carpenter in local 608, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America. With decades of experience in the trades, he focuses on the history of working class struggle and union organizing in New York. He is the author of Disunited Brotherhood: Race, Racketeering and the Fall of the New York Construction Unions and is owner and moderator of Gangbox: Construction Workers News Service ...
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