RFH Ep. 84: Resurgent Union Organizing in the US (with Gabriel Donnelly)

Gabriel Donnelly, a young labor activist and Marxist-Humanist, joins the co-hosts to discuss his new article, “Workers’ Self-Organization: New Unionization Drives and Their Contradictions.” They talk about how the new unions and unionization campaigns depart from established unionism and about the link between the resurgent unionism and social movements like Black Lives Matter. They also discuss the lessons, pro and con, that the history of unionism in the US provides. And Gabriel argues that the new unionization drives are battling against “twin gulags,” collective-bargaining laws and regulationsas well as traditional trade-unionism. In the current-events segment, Brendan and Andrew discuss the top takeaways from the House committee’s final report on the fascistic Jan. 6 insurrection.