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Where is the working class' power? An interview with Peter Olney and John Womack

Where is the working class' power? An interview with Peter Olney and John Womack

Update: 2024-10-28
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Peter Olney is a labor organizer of over half a century, long-time organizing director at the ILWU, and researcher on labor strategy. John Womack is a Harvard historian of the labor movement and the Mexican Revolution. In this episode they sit down with Ira and Rudy to discuss Peter and John’s 2023 book Labor, Power, and Strategy. They discuss the controversial approach of organizing workers in the choke points of production, what it will take to rebuild the labor movement, and new opportunities for working class internationalism.

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Where is the working class' power? An interview with Peter Olney and John Womack

Where is the working class' power? An interview with Peter Olney and John Womack