Ep 73 - Hard Hat Riot w/ Billy O'Connor & John Tormey

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode of The Antifada, Sean KB is joined by fellow building tradesmen Billy and John to do a little workers inquiry on themselves.

We discuss our own work histories and how we became radicalized through historical events and our experiences on the job. We poke holes in the JD Vance 'white working class' mythos that sees cultural regression as the wellspring of Trumpism. Lastly, we talk about the structures we've encountered in our particular unions and how the working class might overcome the provincialism and conservatism of business unionism.

Outro: Billy Bragg - Which Side Are You On?

Check out John's excellent article here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/known-assailants-tormey

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm
0:02.0	I'm on the rest is best.
0:04.0	Hello and welcome to the Antifada, where on rest is best.
0:11.0	I am Sean K. B. and I'm very excited to be doing this episode that I've been planning to do for a really, really
0:17.0	long time and it's actually happening.
0:20.0	We are here with my brother in arms, old friend of mine, Billy O'Connor.
0:25.3	What's up Billy?
0:26.0	Hello everyone, how you doing, John?
0:27.9	And I'm here with a new friend and brother, John Torme.
0:31.2	What's up, John? Hey, what's up? We are doing an episode today about
0:35.5	something near and dear to our hearts, which is wage labor. The three of us are all in
0:41.8	the trades. president future.
0:47.0	Billy O'Connor here, we met about 10, 12 years ago, would you say,
0:51.0	at a capital reading group? About 12 years ago, would you say, at a capital reading group?
0:53.0	About 12 years ago.
0:55.0	We actually worked together at a moving company briefly, too.
0:58.5	I think you were in between jobs at that point, right?
1:00.8	Right.
1:01.8	We're working at Rabbit. Rabbit movers.
1:04.0	There's some really, really, there's some horror stories from that experience, but hey, we're here now,
1:08.1	that's what's up.
1:09.1	And John Tormey wrote an excellent piece for the Baffler which is how I online met him about the kind of,
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