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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

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