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Laborwave Radio
Laborwave Radio focuses on work and labor organizing from an anti-capitalist perspective. We're a part of the Channel Zero Network and Labor Radio Network.
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76 episoodiRevaluing The Strike w/ Erik Baker
"Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political transformation."
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Premajority Unionism with Eric Dirnbach
Eric Dirnbach joins the show to discuss premajority unionism, where you don't need to wait around to act like a union but can be a union from the star...
How To Revive the Labor Movement w/ Marianne Garneau
Back from hiatus with a no holds barred takedown of every popular argument for reviving the power of organizing labor! Marianne Garneau, editor in chi...
Labor Rights or Labor Freedoms? A Conversation with Matthew Dimick
Matthew Dimick, Professor of Law at the University of Buffalo, joins the show to respond to recent debate over the Wagner Act. Dimick makes clear that...
The Long Deep Grudge w/ Toni Gilpin
Toni Gilpin joins the show to discuss her book, The Long Deep Grudge, which chronicles the epic battles of the Farm Equipment Workers Union (FE) again...
William Z. Foster: A Critical Examination on his Methods and Strategies
Second episode in our discussion of the life and thought of William Z. Foster.
On this go around Lucas Carpenter and Tim Shields join th...
William Z. Foster: A Critical Examination on his Theories and Politics
Nick Driedger joins the show to discuss the legacy and ideas of William Z. Foster, former president the Communist Party USA and trade unionist involve...
Media Strategies for Unions, A Wobbly's Take with Graham Kovich
Graham Kovich joins the show to discuss varying media and communications strategies for increasing union power.
Graham is running for th...
On The Line w/ Daisy Pitkin
Daisy Pitkin joins the show to discuss her book about labor organizing and solidarity, On The Line.
Daisy Pitkin has spent more than twen...
Class Struggle Unionism [cross-over w/ Wobcast!]
Joe Burns discusses class struggle unionism on this joint episode between Laborwave Radio and Wobcast of Organizing Work.
Marianne Garne...
Intersectional Class Struggle
Michael Beyea Reagan discusses the characteristics of intersectional class struggle and shares insights around movement-building geared toward the tas...
Organizing the White Lotus w/ Liz from Rebel Steps
Liz, host of Rebel Steps podcast, joins the show to discuss a fictional workplace campaign to unionize the hotel workers at the illustrious White Lotu...
Shop Talk: Are They An Organic Leader or Bootlicker?
Andrea Haverkamp, a labor organizer based in Seattle, joins the show to talk shop about organic leaders, private vs public sector organizing approache...
State of Unions After Janus vs. AFSCME
Bill Fletcher Jr joins the show and discusses the need for "social justice unionism" in a post-Janus United States. Workers are increasingly atomized...
Reviving The Strike
Joe Burns, a veteran union negotiator and labor lawyer and the author of Strike Back and Reviving the Strike, joins the show to discuss the role milit...
Lenin Was Wrong: Workplace Struggles Are Political
Marianne Garneau, publisher of Organizing.Work, joins the show to discuss her article Workplace Struggles Are Political.
Garneau's provid...
Beauty & the Beast: Servant Uprising!
Graham Kovich joins the show to plan an organizing campaign for the servants in Beauty & the Beast!
Graham and I imagine ourselves as two...
An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State
Eric Laursen, author of The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State, joins the show to provide a concrete analysis of the State as o...
EWOC: Can Popular Education Help Organize One Million Workers?
Eric Dirnbach joins the show to discuss his experience as an advanced organizer with EWOC, the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, a joint partn...
A Defense of Wanting to Shoot the Foreman: On Speed-Ups and Union Decline
Gabriel Winant, historian and author of The Next Shift, joins the show to discuss the decline of union power in the face of speed-ups and an expanding...
Comrades Read Singlejack Solidarity by Stan Weir
Comrades Luke and Tim join the show to discuss the rank and file critique of business unionism put forward by Stan Weir.
Throughout his w...
You Say You Want a General Strike?
Re-issue of our conversation with Marianne Garneau discussing her article in Organizing.Work, "You Say You Want a General Strike?"
Garnea...
Get Rid of No Strike Clauses and Stop Begging
Hamilton Nolan joins the show to elaborate on his article "Get Rid of No Strike Clauses and Stop Begging" written for In These Times.
Nol...
Unionizing "The Office" (US Version) w/ Elizabeth Laycak
Veteran labor organizer, Elizabeth Laycak, joins the show to discuss how two new workers employed by Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. in Scranton, PA would in...
Shop Floor Organizing at Amazon w/ Amazonians United Chicagoland
Ruby and Zama, workers at Amazon and members of Amazonians United, join the show to discuss their methods of shop floor organizing and direct unionism...
Union Democracy and Working Class Power Require Deep Organizing w/ Marybeth Seitz-Brown
Marybeth Seitz-Brown, organizer and former rank-and-file member with the NewsGuild of New York, joins the show to discuss how deep organizing is neces...
[Film Review] Lapsis, or Capitalism is a Ponzi Scheme
Comrades Andrea, Kali, Luke, and Nick join the show to discuss the film Lapsis, from writer/director Noah Hutton. In a parallel present, delivery man...
Union Shop: Consider a "Salt-free" Meal w/ MK Lees
MK Lees, contributor and regular editor of Organizing Work, joins Laborwave Radio to discuss the strategy of "salting" a workplace to boost a union ca...
Ep. 2 Comrades Read A Syndicalist View of the Rank and File Strategy w/ Tom Wetzel
Tom Wetzel, author of the forthcoming book Overcoming Capitalism from AK Press, joins Laborwave Radio to discuss a syndicalist critique of Kim Moody's...
Ep. 1 Comrades Read Kim Moody's Rank and File Strategy
Comrades Andrea Haverkamp, Nick Fisher, Tim and Joe Clement join Laborwave Radio for another series of Comrades Read!
We dig into the "Ra...
Ben Fletcher, Racial Capitalism, & Anti-Racist Unions w/ Peter Cole
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.
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Talking Union Shop: Solidarity Unionism & the IWW w/ One Big Podcast
Laborwave Radio and the One Big Podcast collaborate on this episode discussing the particulars of solidarity unionism in contrast to business unionism...
Work Won't Love You Back w/ Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Jaffe, author, labor journalist, and one of the hosts of Belabored Podcast, joins Laborwave Radio to discuss her new book, Work Won't Love You B...
Organized Labor Shouldn’t Expect Much From President Joe Biden w/ Alex Press
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Alex Press, labor reporter and staff writer at Jacobin Magazine, joins the show to discu...
The Union Busting Playbook & How to Fight It as Told by Workers at No Evil Foods
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Laborwave spoke with workers at No Evil Foods about the company's...
Amazon Capitalism & Organizing the Giant w/ Jake Alimahomed-Wilson & Ellen Reese
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Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese are the editors of The Cost of Free Shipping: Ama...
The Future of the IWW: Building One Big Union w/ Nick Driedger & Marianne Garneau
The IWW is 115 years old! In celebration we invited Marianne Garneau & Nick Driedger from Organizing Work to discuss the nuts and bolts of organizing...
Malls After The Revolution w/ Shawn of Srsly Wrong
Laborwave Radio presents a podcast mini-series, After The Revolution.
After the Revolution is inspired by the desire to offer more than...
Strikes are for power not popularity, cross-post w/ Anarres Project for Alternative Futures
Crossposting an interview Laborwave Radio host, Alex Riccio, had with Joseph Orosco of the Anarres Project for Alternative Futures about the #ScholarS...
Ep. 5 Comrades Read Together, No Shortcuts! w/ Andrea, Sarah, & Michael
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We're reading books, sharing articles,...