Godfrey Moase
substackRecent

The Solidarity Wedge

by Godfrey Moase·Last posted 1 months ago

About Godfrey Moase

About The Solidarity Wedge

The Solidarity Wedge is a longer intervention serialised in newsletter form. To keep update to with its progression use this below list as table of contents:

Introduction

Part I: My reckoning with failure Part II: Worker action informs good union strategy Part III: On Power, Radical Education, and Automation Part IV: Global Warming, the Limits of Possibility, and the Universal Part V: Introducing the Solidarity Wedge

Part One: Solidarity as Strategy Part One takes a broader of solidarity and how it can still emerge within and against a fundamentally inhumane system.

Chapter 1: Humanity and its Horrors Part I: The monsters of capitalism Part II: Life beyond the monsters Part III: Freedom and Unions Part IV: Democracy and Unions Part V: Equality and Unions Part VI: Cooperatives as vehicles for humanisation

Chapter 2: The Solidarity Wedge Part I: Understanding worker power Part II: The Lessons of Wage Struggle and Solidarity Part III: Rebuilding worker power and the three fronts of class struggle

Part Two: Solidarity within Wage Labour Part Two outlines a strategy to nurture solidarity between workers within the constraints of the wage labour relation as it currently exists.

Chapter 3: Solidarity Bargaining Part I: Defining Solidarity Bargaining Part II: On Collective Bargaining Part III: The Three Threads of Solidarity Bargaining Part IV: Solidarity Bargaining and the Minimum Wage Part V: The Minimum Wage Struggle as Collective bargain Part VI: Solidarity Bargaining and actually existing union agreements Part VII: Solidarity Bargaining and Elite Reaction Part VIII: Solidarity Bargaining and Mass Organising in Non-Union Workplaces

Chapter 4: Implementing Solidarity Bargaining: Strategic Considerations Chapter 5: Climate Bargaining and Intergenerational Solidarity

Part Three: Solidarity Beyond Wage Labour Part Three outlines a strategy to nurture solidarity between workers beyond the constraints of the wage labour relation as it currently exists.