Ep 118 - Angery Worker Reacts Only w/ Angry Workers

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

Arts, Music

4.2 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

We interview two authors of the new book "Class Power on Zero Hours" describing the Angry Workers' collective efforts of organizing, agitating, and working in the industrial fringes of west London.

“We are publishing this book at a time when many on the left are licking their wounds, despondent at their missed opportunity to implement a socialist program through the Labour Party," they write in the intro, calling instead for more focus on daily worker activity for autonomy, and theorizing how solidarity between essential workers can point the way to revolution.

Part two of the episode, released Friday on Patreon, will discuss that program as well as anti-lockdown riots and BLM.

Read the full introduction: https://classpower.net/intro/

Buy Class Power on Zero Hours from PM Press: https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1164

Angry Workers’ essay on insurrection:

https://angryworkersworld.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/insurrection-and-production/

Correspondence with Insurgent Notes: http://insurgentnotes.com/2020/09/introduction-to-discussion-of-class-power-on-zero-hours/

Closing song: Sleaford Mods - Jobseeker

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Antipada where unrest is best. I'm Jamie Peck. I'm Sean
0:11.9	K. B. I'm AP Andy and we are here with
0:15.2	Kiran and Marco from the Angry Workers Collective. How you guys doing today?
0:21.8	Yeah, we're good. Yeah, in lockdown again. They just announced it another four weeks here in
0:28.3	UK. Oh no. Plenty of platform. I... Yeah. It must be nice to be in a country that does things like that.
0:37.0	Somehow Bojo has exceeded expectations here.
0:42.0	Yeah, they're quite used to like U-turns.
0:46.0	But I think everyone was so scared of Christmas being cancelled
0:50.0	that it was a kind of plastic pretend to avoid it.
0:54.0	Well it's all very futile in the UK or in the United States
0:58.0	as we enter into the winter
1:01.0	the winter of discontent
1:02.0	it's going to be quite the time.
1:04.0	And speaking of we are recording on Sunday November 1st the episode will come out
1:09.6	Wednesday November 4th we are we can be smug pre-election people and we can say that
1:17.1	elections don't matter all that matters is the class war right and we don't
1:21.1	care about bourgeois democracy and I'm sure in a week or two we'll be doing some election about defending
1:27.6	bourgeois democracy and something like that.
1:31.0	But from now we can be really smug. So that's going to be really smug.
1:33.0	So that's going to be the that's our goal for the episode.
1:36.5	Smugged this.
1:37.7	Squad workers of the world.
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