*the bond market will not save us *the Harvard president will not save us *the courts will not save us Mass organizing to build working class power is what we need. A new report in @inequality.org by @cwd-asu.bsky.social (@mgmcquarrie.bsky.social et al.) shows how: inequality.org/article/thre...

“One common feature of many of the strategies discussed [in the new report] is a willingness to experiment with new organizational forms. Unions are limited, legally and organizationally, in many ways, and they can be greatly aided by an eclectic organizational network”

“Hat’s off to the [CWD] team for producing your ‘Beyond the NLRB’ report. It’s comprehensive, insightful, thought-provoking, altogether a tour de force… It will be a tremendous resource for the labor movement for years to come.” Read the report here 👇

“With the National Labor Relations Act now in the crosshairs of the Right, organized labor needs to confront an uncomfortable truth: even at its best, this framework has severe limitations. It’s time to explore alternatives.”

In his new article for @thenation.com , CWD AiR Jonathan Rosenblum reflects on the recent organizing loss for independent union, CAUSE, in their fight against Amazon in NC and articulates a number of keys that organizers can learn for future efforts against Amazon: www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Our newest report, “Beyond the NLRB: Contemporary Strategies and Practices for Labor Movement Renewal,” is officially here! drive.google.com/file/d/1qT1j...

“What has happened in Quebec ought to put the entire labor movement on notice. Site-by-site organizing... will be a failed strategy at Amazon... Amazon can be beaten, but it’s going to take strategic coordination among its approximately 1.7 million US workers”

My colleague Ben Case breaks down Pittsburgh's effort to put a divestment initiative on the ballot and tells us what it means for our politics and possibilities for future mobilizations. convergencemag.com/articles/not...

Thank you so much to the team at SEIU-UHW for hosting members of the CWD at the UHW Staff Retreat! It was so amazing to get to see our allies and learn more about the roots and future of your organization.

“How do we not only take care of our union members... but also how do we go out into the community... where our members live and recruit our friends and family into allied health care jobs so that they can come and work side by side?”

This has been a long-running project @cwd-asu.bsky.social. The labor movement needs a strategy for rebuilding the power of workers in the economy and the polity. Campaign analysis by armchair generals will not get us there.

New from CWD Activist in Residence Jonathan Rosenblum and Associate Director Ben Fong: Amazon’s union-busting reaches new heights in Canada as execs close down ALL SEVEN warehouses in Quebec to avoid contract negotiation with one recently-unionized warehouse. Learn more: jacobin.com/2025/01/amaz...

A much-needed wake-up call on Amazon and labor movement strategy from my terrific colleagues Ben Fong and Jonathan Rosenblum. This challenge can be met, the question is: will it be met. Most laborist discussion isn't even beginning to have this discussion. jacobin.com/2025/01/amaz...

seconded, for-profit healthcare is immoral (and also a disaster by every possible public health and fiscal metric).

@maxkiefel.bsky.social on the Dems2024 election in @thebaffler.com, one of the best magazines out there: "The crux of the problem is that Democrats use data to reflect the mirage of public opinion." And, also, it isn't a party. It's a network of consultants and donors. thebaffler.com/latest/the-c...

We'll view this era nostalgically when the bulldozers pull up outside.

Note to Minnesota elected officials and editorial writers: the people will celebrate their heroes.

Happening now at Washington Square Park: A United Healthcare CEO shooter lookalike competition, including people who intentionally and unintentionally dressed the part.

Editorial standards in 2024: 1.) humanize the chairman of a death council, 2.) dehumanize Palestinian children. Level up of necropolitics achieved.

In which I think about how much we've lost already and how much worse it will get.The Supreme Court Just Gave Us a Bitter Taste of What’s Coming www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...

the implications...

It’s true, and (my preliminary analysis suggests) this barely cracks the top 10 of most gerrymandered maps over the past 15 years. Partisan gerrymandering is just on a whole nother level since 2010

Online influencers are selling the trad wife life, but we have to ask: why are young women willing to buy what they sell? As I show in Holding It Together, the appeal of that life--and Christian nationalism--stems from how the US has forced women to stand in for a social safety net. 1/

Today we remember the legacy of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

Excellent on ballot initiative politics from my colleague Ben Case. If you think Dems lost because they're "too far left", explain why redistributive initiatives win all the time. The problem is the Democrats, not redistributive policy. jacobin.com/2024/12/dire... @cwd-asu.bsky.social

In an economy where only 8% of workers are employed in manufacturing, a policy that promises to restore the middle class by bringing manufacturing back home is not only unrealistic; it also rings hollow to most workers (and voters), notes @drodrik.bsky.social. bit.ly/4f1aicD

Did not expect to see something like this from the Manhattan Institute...

Cas Mudde has been a leading scholar of far-right politics since before it was a topic of general concern. Here he is summing up the progress of far-right parties globally. A global perspective is essential to contextualize national or local explanations: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...

seconded.

High praise from someone who has shaped all of our thinking here. Here is the link to the opening intro which conveniently links to all the other short pieces: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OtD 2 Dec 1816 a meeting by 1000s of radical Spenceans was violently dispersed by police in Spa Fields, London. Four were arrested and charged with high treason, though found not guilty. Mass anti-govt working-class agitation in Britain followed stories.workingclasshistory....

How did Britain's post-industrial towns become hubs of badly paid work and disenchanted politics? They were not forgotten or 'left behind', but actively remade. My report for @cmmonwealth.bsky.social two-towns.common-wealth.org

New from Sacha Hilhorst, a former colleague of mine at @lsesociology.bsky.social. Sacha unpacks the cultural narratives and institutional fraying that have disconnected formerly militant supporters of Labour from party politics: doi.org/10.1111/1468...

from the terrific Sacha Hilhorst:

CLR James denouncing the invasion of Ethiopia, from aeon.co/essays/c-l-r...

couple notes from a Jason Hickel thread from over on Twitter:

Someone should remind the billionaires that before workers had the right to organize and join a union, disgruntled employees occasionally resorted to using bombs and bullets to make themselves heard.

Our special section drawn from the Festschrift papers in honor of Thomas [email protected] & edited by Rose Batt @cornellilr.bsky.social, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Ann Frost & John Paul MacDuffie @uofpenn.bsky.social is out! doi.org/10.1177/0019...

Per @aoc.bsky.social and co., I'm here to celebrate echo chambers and preaching to the choir. Which sings back, beautifully. "The primary assumption behind the idea that we shouldn’t preach to the choir is that one’s proper audience is one’s enemies, not one’s allies." harpers.org/archive/2017...

She will be missed, but if she must go, I'm glad she landed with UHW.

On Nov. 24th at 5:00pm, our allies at BLM PHX Metro will be hosting a benefit concert at Walter Studios featuring performances from the Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra, the Earth Surface People, and more. You can learn more about the event and snag your tickets here: www.seetickets.us/event/blm-ph...

Today on Hypertext: Brink Lindsey explores the deep spiritual roots of our current crisis. hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/the-declin...

Lauren Williams has launched a 🌟 new interactive project, Making Room for Abolition - featuring essays, dispatches, and (my favorite) a collection of artifacts that embody abolitionist principles www.makingroom.online

Interesting and scary tidbit. A union president I work with surveyed his members before the election and found Harris +13. This isn't a steelworkers union. It's a healthcare union. In California.

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

Available now on our YouTube channel, you can watch the recap of our 2024 Conference on Worker Power and Economic Democracy as well as footage from each of its individual panels and discussions! Check them out here: youtu.be/Q99R0Rn8lKg?...

Tune in as Michael McQuarrie talks about the CWD’s relationship with the activists and community at George Floyd Square and how that relationship formed the foundation of the ASU Art Museum exhibition “Twin Flames: The George Floyd Uprising from Minneapolis to Phoenix" youtu.be/_zMXVTNgsGY?...

John Brueggemann just released his book, “Food for the Future: Stories from the Alternative Agro-food Movement,” in paperback!! The book is all about different foods, the stories they contain, and the role of humans in those stories. Learn more and snag your own copy here: rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...