Smash Up Podcast🌹

Podcast on working class politics with @samuelsmucker and @domesticleft. Listen at

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Part 3 of our interview with Prof. @RosemaryFeurer about William Sentner & @ueunion in #StLouis - Sentner & UE build a broad coalition with farmers, environmentalists and small business for worker-driven economic planning, but are defeated by red-baiting. https://t.co/h4Mz4YN9Rg

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Ooh, someone mentioned us on twitter! Oh, wait ... it was one of us.

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or, if you're the podcast-listening type, you can listen to the final episode of @smashuppodcast 3-episode interview with Prof. Feurer https://t.co/Vq2EYUzRQD 21/22

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Today is the 104th anniversary of the Ludlow Massacre. I wrote something about it back in 2010: https://t.co/FKaKdpFDID

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Friends in the US labour movement/left: check out our latest episode on the 1934 Minneapolis teamsters’ strikes! https://t.co/3tAbf414fF @smashuppodcast @NewPoliticsMag @jacobinmag @DemSocialists @DanLaBotz @labornotes @LaborStartUSA @DSA_Labor @SolidarityUS @SocialistViews

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@RosemaryFeurer Also, we are totally making up the UE connection, if that wasn’t obvious

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@RosemaryFeurer We found it at some craft-brew speciality store in New Orleans. But you can apparently buy Red Dawn t-shirts from their website: https://t.co/SweJRitRie

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Unions can be a force that challenges the central organizing premises of a capitalist society. https://t.co/h4Mz4YvyZI

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An important part of what it means to have a vibrant labor movement, is to have a Left being really accepted in the union. https://t.co/h4Mz4YvyZI

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The Kochs are just the end result of the anti-radical sentiment of much of the labor movement. You purge the people who understand [capitalism], and you bear the consequences. And the labor movement was dead set on getting rid of its left flank. https://t.co/h4Mz4YvyZI

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The typical mantra is that you had labor-management peace until the 1970s ... but I see that employers never stopped organizing against unions. https://t.co/h4Mz4YN9Rg

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Sentner's agenda is influenced by the Communist Party agenda, which is the best worker-based organization for fighting racism internally in the CIO, and you have to give it credit for that. https://t.co/h4Mz4YvyZI

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There's a group of people who were based in Evansville who became the base for campaigns that influence the civil rights movement. There's a group of people who commit themselves to the UE and the Left, among them are Carl Braden and Anne Braden https://t.co/h4Mz4YN9Rg

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One of the justifications I would have for calling this radical unionism is that this is not just getting better wages for workers but saying that workers should direct the economy https://t.co/h4Mz4YvyZI

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Universal planning was highly popular in the post-war era, until, of course, the red-baiting https://t.co/h4Mz4YN9Rg

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…this notion that ordinary people could be a force for making the government responsive to communities through planning https://t.co/h4Mz4YvyZI

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He always made this argument that people liked socialism until they heard the word https://t.co/h4Mz4YN9Rg #TrySocialism

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This beer, brewed in Evansville, IN, is actually a commemoration of the UE's short-lived but inspiring victories over the Bucyrus-Erie and Servel companies in the late 40s. Learn more in the third of our Radical Unionism in the Midwest episodes https://t.co/h4Mz4YN9Rg

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@domesticleft Yo, it was *episode* 17, *part* 3 of our interview with Prof. Feurer. But we'll forgive you. On account of you're one of the co-hosts and all.

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After World War II, there was massive support for government-initiated economic planning. One of the most innovative proposals came from the Midwest district of UE. Learn more about it in episode 3 of the @smashuppodcast https://t.co/Vq2EYUzRQD

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They were determined to take on race and gender issues during the war … They did that by contesting the way the whole economy was managed. https://t.co/h4Mz4YvyZI