"The largely unorganized social rejection of liberal politics has led us to this moment when the reactionary forces of Trumpism have recaptured the state.” To change course, we can “begin with a leap of faith, a fidelity in the primacy of class action in defense of all workers, no matter their legal status, race, or gender."
Like contingent faculty around the country, adjuncts at Northern New Mexico College deal with precarity, poor pay and exclusion from decision-making. NNMC serves mostly Latinx and Native American students, so the school itself gets slighted by the state—but organizing is starting to change all that.
This episode features a conversation with two experienced unionists about the history of, and barriers to, solidarity between US workers and those abroad.
Carl Rosen is the General President of UE, the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America. UE is a famously democratic, progressive, and independent union, and they have done arguably the best work of any US union in building mutual alliances of solidarity with labor unions abroad over the last several decades, including a long collaboration with the Mexican Frente Auténtico de Trabajo.
Bob Master recently retired after 45 years in the labor movement, the last 36 with the Communications Workers of America. He was a founding co-chair of the New York State Working Families Party, and remains a member of the WFP National Executive Committee. Bob is also a big-picture strategic thinker, strategist and writer about matters of US politics, political economy, and class struggle.
