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Revolutionary Left Radio

Workers Fighting Back: The UAW Goes on Strike!

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Teddy Ostrow and Maximillian Alvarez from The Real News Network join Breht to discuss the recent "stand up" strike launched by the United Auto Workers labor union. Teddy and Max discuss the strike, explain the causes of the strike and the demands of the workers, the UAW union president Shawn Fain and the democratic election that put him in leadership, what this strike - and others like it - mean for the American working class, the importance of solidarity in the labor movement and beyond, why the working class should own what it produces, and much more!

Teddy's Interview with UAW President Shawn Fain

Labor Notes

In These Times

The Upsurge Podcast

Outro Music: "Rich Men Earning North of a Million" by Billy Bragg

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0:00.0

You know, but what I want to emphasize is that this right here, this is the historical

0:04.4

froth from which a socialist movement can be born.

0:09.1

By which I mean a movement of working people that fights for working people and believes

0:15.6

the people who make society run should run society.

0:20.6

And that's us.

0:21.8

It's not the parasitic oligarchs and corporations and their bodoth politicians vampirically

0:27.6

sucking out all of the wealth that we create for them and then using that fucking money

0:32.5

and the power that comes with it to pillage the rest of the globe through through through

0:36.7

military conflict or financial occupation and domination and that movement begins and

0:44.2

lives.

0:45.2

I think everywhere regular people start fighting back and fighting for a better life.

0:51.2

Hello everybody, welcome back to RevLeftRadio.

1:00.0

Today I have on Teddy Ostrow and Max Alvarez from the Real News Network and Teddy is from

1:05.6

the upsurge podcast on to talk about the UAW strike.

1:10.4

Now obviously this strike is an ongoing evolving process with many moving parts and anything

1:16.1

that is happening today could be changed tomorrow but we're going to try to get this out

1:20.4

as soon as possible to just help our audience get a better insight into what exactly is going

1:25.8

on.

1:26.8

So before we jump into those questions, Teddy and then Max, can you guys introduce yourselves

1:30.4

and let the audience know who you guys are?

1:32.7

Sure.

1:33.7

So thanks for having me on.

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