From Trade-Union Consciousness to Socialist Consciousness with Chris Townsend
From Trade-Union Consciousness to Socialist Consciousness with Chris Townsend

From Trade-Union Consciousness to Socialist Consciousness with Chris Townsend

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Three of our writers are joined by veteran union organizer Chris Townsend for a podcast discussion on labor organizing across history and in the present day. Chris, Remi, Peter, and Annie will explore how to do what Lenin emphasized had to be done: how do we inject the political ‘good news’ of socialism into the workers’ economistic struggle? They recapitulate how the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party situated itself in the labor organizing of the early 1900s, how the ‘third period’ of the Comintern laid the basis of the formation of the CIO in the US, and attempt to extrapolate what can we learn from those tactics to apply in the present day.

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