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Towards a Revolutionary Union Movement, Part 11: Rooted in Communities and Social Movements

We cannot let the state and capital drive a wedge between workers and their own communities. Revolutionary unions must forge alliances with community groups and root themselves in social movements.

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Towards a Revolutionary Union Movement, Part 10: Antifascist

Fascism represents an all out war against the proletariat. Revolutionary unionists must unite with antifascist struggles of all types if we hope to outlast the repression we will inevitably face.

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Towards a Revolutionary Union Movement, Part 9: Industrial(?)

Revolutionary unions should strongly consider adopting an industrial organizing model that can effectively coordinate the takeover of production during a revolutionary upheaval.

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Towards a Revolutionary Union Movement, Part 8: Internationalist

Revolutionary unions must foster international solidarity by rejecting the nation-state and militarism. That means organizing across borders and down global supply chains.

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Towards a Revolutionary Union Movement, Part 7: Heterodox Strategy and Tactics

A revolutionary union movement must find a way to overcome "the syndicalist cycle." It must navigate the class struggle in a fluid, adaptable way to outflank capital.

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Towards a Revolutionary Union Movement, Part 6: Militant

We need a revolutionary union movement to confront the power of the employing class. Revolutionary unions must embrace militant, class struggle strategies and tactics to win.

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Towards a Revolutionary Union Movement, Part 5: Democratic and Inclusive

We need a new type of revolutionary unionism that can confront capitalism. Revolutionary unions must prefigure the future by practicing direct forms of democracy, paired with an inclusive culture.

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Towards a Revolutionary Union Movement, Part 4: Prefigurative

We need a new type of revolutionary unionism to confront capitalism. Revolutionary unions must embody the future societies they strive to create in their present-day organizational forms.

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Towards a Revolutionary Union Movement, Part 3: Against Class Collaboration

We need a new, revolutionary type of unionism to confront the power of the employing class. In part three of this series, we delve into the first of nine traits that distinguish revolutionary unions.

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Towards a Revolutionary Union Movement, Part Two: Dual Power

We need a new, revolutionary type of unionism that can confront the power of the employing class. In the second part of this series, we argue that revolutionary unions must build dual power.

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Towards a Revolutionary Union Movement, Part One: Introduction

We need a new, revolutionary type of unionism that can confront the power of the employing class. Our new essay series examines the traits revolutionary unions must possess to measure up to the task.

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Against Professionalism!

Professional hierarchies in educational workplaces exist to set groups of workers against each other in service of arbitrary definitions of professional conduct that are imposed by our employers.

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The Working Class is (Still) in Danger!

With the 2024 US presidential election drawing closer, the right is once again ramping up its saber-rattling about civil war. While some argue that the threat of civil war is overblown, my fellow worker-organizers in education take the possibility very seriously.

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A Union for ALL Education Workers!

We in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia Education Workers Organizing Committee (aka DMV EWOC) hope to unite all education workers in the Greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area to form a militant labor solidarity network.

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Students Belong in the Union!

This essay was adapted from a pamphlet written by UK based members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union for student-organizers. Given the upsurge in undergraduate student-worker organizing in the last few years, it is an essential development we must analyze.

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The Class Divide within Education

This is the introduction to an upcoming series, The Industrialization of Education. It lays out our general analytical framework. Two ideals are struggling for supremacy in American life today: one is the industrial ideal dominating through the supremacy of commercialism, which subordinates the worker to the product and the machine;

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Proletarians or Professionals? A History from Below of Teacher Unionism in the United States

This piece began as a research paper I created for a class that I took while working on my teacher certification in 2020. At first, it was meant to be a cut and dry, chronological history of the movement. I was working in-person for minimum wage at the height of

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The Working Class is in Danger!

Adapted from: https://www.angryworkers.org/2020/10/10/the-necessity-of-a-revolutionary-working-class-program-in-times-of-coup-and-civil-war-scenarios/ The working class is in danger The physical and armed attacks on protests, LGBTQIA+ folks, Black Americans, educators, and others make it urgent to discuss concretely the need for revolutionary change. This becomes even more urgent when we remind ourselves