Tag: Strike
The Rank and File Strategy and the New Socialist Movement
Kim Moody responds to Kate Doyle Griffiths critical essay on the rank and file strategy, criticizing electoralist appropriations along the way.
Striking for Racial Justice
Dave Zirin talks about what led to the NBA players’ strike, where it can go from here, and its implications for the Black Lives Matter and labor movements.
The Rank and File Strategy on New Terrain
Danyal Kade Doyle Griffiths rethinks the rank-and-file strategy in light of recent developments, arguing for the incorporation of social reproduction analyses in our strategic reflections.
Art Workers Rise Up
For too long, gatekeepers of the art world have spoken in the name of the sector’s most marginalized workers. But now these workers are taking back the narrative, linking antiracist mobilization to struggles in their own workplaces.
Passing the Whip to Bezos
Adrienne Williams speaking at Oakland Port Shutdown, June 19, 2020.
Cops Off Campus and Out of Our Unions!
A member of an emergent radical caucus in CUNY’s PSC advocates expelling cop unions from all labor federations.
For a Grad Workers’ Strike
Eli B. Lichstenstein argues that graduate workers must be at the forefront of a strike against cops, austerity, and the capitalist university.
Class, Race, and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century US South
Charles Post interviews Michael Goldfield about his new book The Southern Key.
Operating a Train in a Pandemic
Josh Fradistern, a New York transit worker, explains the limits of TWU’s conciliatory leadership and advocates a rank-and-file approach as the only way for workers to survive the pandemic.
My Fight as a Worker and as a Feminist During COVID-19
The pandemic has highlighted the contradictions between production and social reproduction, making both the various forms of oppression and the cracks in the system more apparent. Maddelena Manca tells the story of women workers who, in addition to facing the choice between health and work, have to carry the burden of domestic labor and childcare.