Workers' Inquiry

In this episode we speak to Keiran Knutson, call center worker and president of Communications Workers of America Local 7250 in Minneapolis about the Minneapolis general strike against ICE and the organising that made it possible.⁠Subscribe to NFB!⁠

This episode is a mash up of different recordings and interviews done at the rank-and-file conference, Labor Notes, earlier this summer. The central interview is a half hour discussion with Isaac Nelson, a teaching assistant from Minnesota, about the resistance to Operation Metro Surge. Also featuring: Ellen David Freedman, author of Keep Going: A guide to organising when it's hard Josh McPhee, coauthor of Strike While The Needle is Hot: A discography of workers' revoltFor more about Labor Notes, check out their website: https://labornotes.org/Subscribe to NFB!

Direct action gets the goods. In this episode we discuss Matthew's experience of working and organising as a teaching assistant, including how they waged a campaign of on-the-job action to resist work intensification and management surveillance. This episode was recorded on the fly, so please enjoy the background ambience of a pub garden in South London. We'll be back to the usual studio setup soon. Read Matthew's article, A Lesson in Class Struggle: Working in a South London SchoolThe Whitehall Worker (civil service bulletin)The Handover (St George's Hospital bulletin) Read Notes from Below⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to NFB and get a copy of every print issue ⁠Say hello ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

New from the NFB vault: guest editors Rehana Zaman, Jenny Warren and Allan Struthers join Dante to discuss issue 24 on class struggle in arts and culture. This interview was recorded in late 2025. Read the whole issue hereSubscribe to NFB if you haven't already

The podcast returns with an election special on workers' inquiry, fascism, and poultry farms. Lotte's book: An Economy of Starlings The Future In Our Past - out now on Verso Interview about the book with Sam Kelly on Red Medicine Read Notes from Below⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to NFB and get a copy of every print issue Say hello ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠