This Wreckage19 Sep 2023

Ep 225 - UAW Strike EMERGENCY POD

UAW Strike updates! We hear Sean's analysis of the struggles of US autoworkers since 2018, various strategies the government has used to intervene, evaluated the takes of Brandon and Drumpf, ponder a Titoist Obama, and discuss the revolutionary position.

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In the fun half we summarize the positions of the Trotsyist SEP and WSWS, a critique from the Bolshevik Tendency, and argue why abolishing the value form would be a more popular demand than electing a socialist politician or taxing the rich. Some of the stuff we read for the episoe:

https://labornotes.org/2023/09/no-justice-no-jeeps-scenes-auto-workers-strike https://labornotes.org/2023/09/auto-workers-strike-plants-all-three-big-3

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/united-auto-workers-strike-shawn-fain-big-three-automakers

Alex press on democracy now: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/15/uaw_strike_big_three_automakers

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/the-uaw-strike-matters-for-the-entire-us-working-class

Ex wildcat-leader Jim Cramer maulding: https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1702318383642112082

Biden audio: https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1702723784506056705

Trump audio https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1702733477517357310

Hate listen fodder from NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/podcasts/the-daily/ford-general-motors-strike.html

Contradictions at the heart of Bidenomics: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/us/politics/biden-uaw-strike.html

Hamilton Nolan: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/whose-fault-is-it

-WSWS https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/15/nvxk-s15.html -Critique of SEP: https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/07/will-lehmans-uaw-presidential-campaign-a-poison-pill/

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