New blog post:

"There are two things that builders do: 1) they build and cohere networks of people who are affected by a problem, and 2) they organize these networks in a particular direction to address that problem."

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These are my new zine creations from this summer! If you belong to a political organization or union that would want to get a batch of zines and are willing to pay for shipping, let me know thru the Contact page on my blog and I can mail them to you.

My latest blog post shows how to apply the AEIOU (Agitate-Educate-Inoculate-Organize-Uplift) framework to 1-on-1 organizing conversations in a union contract campaign.

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I constantly strive to be a better organizer and something I need to take to heart more is to ask more questions.

Get people thinking for themselves.

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My latest:

"Good question-asking is for a grassroots organizer what the wing is to a bird. More than a tool, it is the basic appendage the organizer uses to maneuver through social relationships and political ideas."

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I review Hamilton Nolan's The Hammer and Eric Blanc's We Are the Union. I sympathize more with Blanc's bottom-up vision of the labor movement, but both books left me wondering what role socialist organization specifically had to play in this grand drama.

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I just went thru and polished this old favorite post of mine:

"Everyone can organize, and everyone’s organizing will be stronger if they drop the popular image of organizing they have in their head."

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My practical introduction to no-strike clauses for rank-and-file unionists, and why we should oppose them.

Workers regaining "democratic control of their own capacity for collective action is the first step towards remaking a radical labor movement."

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Brecher's classic book Strike! has a rank-and-file focus that makes it unique among sweeping US labor histories. No other labor book deserves as much wide and enthusiastic a recommendation as this one for today's strike-aspiring unionists. firewithfire.blog/2024/12/23/m...

I've turned one of my most-viewed blog posts into a zine, free to download and print. Get the files or read the digital version here: tinyurl.com/K12capitalism

"To have a robust movement where discussion of strategy is accessible and well-informed it’s important for unionists to be familiar with a broader range of union ideas that are prominent in the movement as a whole."

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This is my lengthy post from earlier this year about how anarchism was probably the leading poll on the left within the global labor movement from about 1905-1922. Recent research is revealing how the movement was so much wider and deeper than has been recognized.

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The 1-on-1 organizing conversation with coworkers is the most important tool of grassroots unionism. It's where you 1) build a relationship of trust, 2) identify common grievances and shared interests, and 3) move together from a place of inaction to one of action.

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The about page on my blog says a little more about me, introduces the main subjects and themes of my writing, and links to my most popular posts. firewithfire.blog/about/