MK Lees reflects on the tactic of “salting” into a workplace in order to organize it
Marianne Garneau reviews Angry Workers’ Class Power on Zero Hours.
MK Lees and Marianne Garneau look at leftists’ poor track record in workplace organizing campaigns
In the fourth episode of the Organizing Work podcast, Nick Driedger and Marianne Garneau talk about the coronavirus crisis, the defeat of Bernie Sanders, and what both mean for the labor movement and for the left
Ray Valentine argues that the skills built in canvassing for an electoral candidate do not translate to organizing workplaces or tenants
Nick Driedger looks back at how unions behaved, and workers fared, when social democrats unexpectedly won an election in Alberta.
Marianne Garneau takes a critical look at general strikes in Europe, and considers what it would take to import the tactic to North America.
Joe Burns takes a critical look back at the many “general strikes” called in recent years.
Food coops, housing coops, credit unions, and other such institutions are sometimes referred to as the “solidarity economy.” Nick Driedger and Eric Dirnbach debate how these institutions relate to working-class power.