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Category Archives: Strategy
Transformation and Reconstruction: The Means and Measure of Revolutionary Change
The fourth and final post in the series: How Do We Organize a Hundred Million? Click to read One, Two, Three. Transformation and Reconstruction: the Means and Measure of Revolutionary Change To organize millions, the revolution has to … Continue reading
Universal Values are Revolutionary Values
Third in the Series: How Do We Organize a Hundred Million? Also find this at PopularResistance and CounterPunch. Universal Values Are Revolutionary Values If we want to organize a hundred million, we must not only go where people live and … Continue reading
Learn From the Bern
Second post in the series: How Do We Organize A Hundred Million? Learn from the Bern: Learn the Inside/Outside Strategy The inside/outside strategy is a way to learn as events unfold. It is important that we learn from, work with, … Continue reading
Conclusion to the Series “On Organizing:” Evolution to Revolution
Last in the series: On Organizing History Has Not Come To An End The series “On Organzing” aims to help us learn from the challenging and confusing dialectical tension that is every organizers terrain and trouble. Among the most productive … Continue reading
Social Movement Unionism: Right Here! Right Now!
Dedicated to the Chicago Teachers Union and teacher activists everywhere. Seventh in the Series: On Organizing. See What is Social Movement Unionism? for the first part of this post including the Battle for Seattle, Occupy and the Great American Boycott. Right … Continue reading
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What is Social Movement Unionism?
Sixth in the series: On Organizing What is Social Movment Unionism? The rarest and most politically charged form of unionism, social movement unionism is also the most difficult form of working-class rebellion to define or realize. When the borderlines between working … Continue reading
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Evolution to Revolution: Rethinking the Organizing Model
Fifth in the series: On Organizing The Revolution for US labor is Social Movement Unionism. The strategic question, as always: how do we get there? Organizers may detest service unionism but that is the world we are in. Can we … Continue reading
Both Interest And Ideals: Working Idealism In
Sixth in the Series: On Organizing Working Idealism In : Engage the People Peace and economic justice is not something we need just for the workers of the Maquiladoras or the people of the Middle East: it is necessary … Continue reading
On Organizing: Both Interest And Ideals
Fourth in the series: On Organizing Both Interests And Ideals Organizers usually accept the idea that self-interest is the best starting point for empowerment. Unions are predicated on serving the interest of working people. Social movements too advocate the peoples’ … Continue reading
Wake Up Zombie, Kick Up a Big Stink!
I have invited Patrick Walker of Revolt Against Plutocracy (RAP) to be a guest blogger. Walker and his fellow political revolutionaries at RAP are a leading force in the grassroots Sanders surge. Best of all they have a strategy. Check … Continue reading
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