Talking Shop - Wages for Housework by New Syndicalist

Talking Shop - Courier organising in the gig economy by New Syndicalist

On the 24th October New Syndicalist joined Wobbly organisers and activists from across the country at the 2018 IWW Organising Summit. The summit – which is planned and arranged every year by the union's Organising Department – is one of the major events in the IWW UK calendar and hosts discussions and presentations on key campaigns and organising work. In the afternoon we invited attendees of the Summit to come and chat with us about any interesting organising work they had been involved in.

On the 24th October New Syndicalist joined Wobbly organisers and activists from across the country at the 2018 IWW Organising Summit. The summit – which is planned and arranged every year by the union's Organising Department – is one of the major events in the IWW UK calendar and hosts discussions and presentations on key campaigns and organising work. In the afternoon we invited attendees of the Summit to come and chat with us about any interesting organising work they had been involved in.

On the 24th October New Syndicalist joined Wobbly organisers and activists from across the country at the 2018 IWW Organising Summit. The summit – which is planned and arranged every year by the union's Organising Department – is one of the major events in the IWW UK calendar and hosts discussions and presentations on key campaigns and organising work. In the afternoon we invited attendees of the Summit to come and chat with us about any interesting organising work they had been involved in.

Common ownership is the ultimate and historic mission of the socialist movement. But can demands for worker ownership be used in the here and now to strengthen the trade union movement? From worker co-operatives, to trade union buyouts to the lesser known Meidner Plan, what positive possibilities lie in a worker co-managed economy short of radical social transformation? Do they offer a route out of capitalism or just a better means of managing our own exploitation?

This month's episode focuses on recent strikes in UK universities as part of the national pensions dispute. The editorial team are joined by Jess Meacham, Vice-President of Sheffield UCU branch, who shares her views on the strikes and their outcome, the events at UCU congress that followed and the future of organising within universities.

To understand what good organising is we must understand and analyse what it isn’t. In order to do this some of New Syndicalist’s editorial team will be examining the difference between organising and mobilising in the first of a new series of podcasts focusing on organising experiences, theory and strategies – Talking Shop.