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Short of a General Strike, How Can Labor Stop Trump From Stealing the Election?: Lessons from Chile’s uprising—and from the 2000 Florida recount fight.

October 30, 2020
Posted in Class Struggle, Election 2020, Elections, Labor Movement, Mobilizing, Organizing, The Nation

There has been a lot of social media chatter about a general strike here in the United States if the results are ambiguous and Trump tries to steal the election. It would be amazing if national trade unions here were prepared to take the same actions in November 2020 that Chile’s national unions took in November 2019—but there’s absolutely no indication that people in positions of power in significant sectors of the US economy are ready to act as boldly as Chilean leaders did. Read More

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How to Organize Your Friends and Family on Thanksgiving: With the presidential primaries in full swing, this Thanksgiving holiday requires radicals to be organizers

November 27, 2019
Posted in Election 2020, Jacobin, Organizing, Published work, Trump

Nobody wants to share a Thanksgiving table with a sanctimonious leftist jerk. But if you’re going to talk politics over turkey, do it the right way. Here’s how. Read More

Kamala Harris talks to striking workers after walking a picket line with UAW member

Workers Are Not Your Props: The Democratic presidential field lined up to get their pictures taken with striking GM workers. But what workers really need from the Democratic Party is power, not photo ops.

October 24, 2019
Posted in Labor Movement, Strikes, The Nation

Dear Democratic Party, stop with the picket line photo ops and start empowering workers. Read More

WritingOrganizers with substantial, direct experience in the field have an entirely different focus than authors who have not been involved in campaigns: we focus on how the work gets done (methods), and how to win.

Short of a General Strike, How Can Labor Stop Trump From Stealing the Election?: Lessons from Chile’s uprising—and from the 2000 Florida recount fight.

How to Organize Your Friends and Family on Thanksgiving: With the presidential primaries in full swing, this Thanksgiving holiday requires radicals to be organizers

Workers Are Not Your Props: The Democratic presidential field lined up to get their pictures taken with striking GM workers. But what workers really need from the Democratic Party is power, not photo ops.

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Organizers with substantial, direct experience in the field have an entirely different focus than authors who have not been involved in campaigns: we focus on how the work gets done (methods), and how to win.