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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

• 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

• Part I: How Solidarity Bargaining counters the threat of the far right

• Part II: Existing and Prospective Union Members and Solidarity Bargaining

• Part III: Exploiting Divisions within the Capitalist Class

• Part IV: Pushback from Union Leadership

• Part V: The Case against Solidarity Bargaining: reinforcing the authority of technocratic processes

• Part VI: The Case against Solidarity Bargaining: free-riding, increasing wages within capitalism, and dealing with reaction

• Part VII: The Case against Solidarity Bargaining: time, wages and delegate capacity.

Chapter 5: Climate Bargaining and Intergenerational Solidarity

• Part I: Climate Solidarity at Work

• Part II: Climate Strikes

• Part III: Disaster Organising

• Part IV: When head office floods

• Part V: Disaster Organising meets Solidarity Bargaining

• Part VI: On Mutual Aid

• Part VII: Climate Bargaining

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.

Chapter 6: The Case for Worker Ownership

• Part I: Competition and Solidarity between Unions and Cooperatives

• Part II: The limits of cooperatives

• Part III: The strategic advantage cooperatives bring to the labour movement

Chapter 7: Organising for Ownership

• Part I: What is Organising for Ownership?

• Part II: Organising for ownership strategies - incubating new enterprises.

• Part III: Organising for ownership strategies - expanding existing enterprises.

• Part IV: Organising for ownership strategies - taking over capitalist workplaces.

• Part V: A union movement that organises for ownership.

Chapter 8: Political Organising

• Part I: Political Organising and the trade union form.

• Part II: Defining politics and political organising.

• Part III: On Trade Union Affiliation to Labor.

Conclusion: Solidarity will see us through

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