“The overthrow of bourgeois rule can be accomplished only by the proletariat, the particular class whose economic conditions of existence prepare it for this task and provide it with the possibility and the power to perform it.” Vladimir Lenin
This episode I’ll be speaking with Matt Littrell, a labor organizer from Kentucky. He has experience with the Amazon Labor Union and the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, among other organizing work.
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Links & Citations:
Lenin. The State and Revolution. 1918. state-and-revolution.pdf (marxists.org) Retrieved 10/29/2023 from https://www.marxists.org/english.htm
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (workerorganizing.org)
Organizing Under Cover (Salting) | Industrial Workers of the World (archive.org)
Organizers Worth Their Salt | Labor Notes
The organized labor movement has a new ally: venture capitalists - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)
Unit Unionizing Guide (unitworkers.com)
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