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Workers Inquiry 1 - Chapter 7 - Food in Capitalism
This is an audio recording of a reading of the book Class Power on Zero-Hours. The Angry Education Workers, a collective directly inspired by the book, is undertaking this effort. We are a political art collective of radical education workers who want to make and distribute art that can help counter the capitalist drive to destroy public education.
In this chapter, the AngryWorkers delve into a history of food production under capitalism and describe its centrality to the functioning and dysfunctioning of capitalist economics. Over the course of the chapter, the AngryWorkers bring us down to earth in the Bakkover ready-meals plant where some of them worked. All of this is to introduce their framework of "workers inquiry", one originally developed by Marx and used by various worker movements and political collectives ever since. This is a powerful organizing tool that worker-organizers can take up in the education industry should take up.
Find everything we do with Angry Education Workers at https://linktr.ee/angryedworkers or contact us directly at [email protected]
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From the introduction: "In January 2014 some AngryWorkers chose to move to a working class neighbourhood on the fringes of west London. We felt an urgent need to break out of the cosmopolitan bubble and root our politics in working class jobs and lives. We wanted to pay more than just lip service to the classic slogan, 'the emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves.' Over the next six years, comrades joined us and we worked in a dozen different warehouses and factories. We organised slowdowns on shop floors, rocked up on bosses' and landlords' doors with our solidarity network, and banged our heads against brick walls as shop stewards in the bigger unions. We wrote up all our experiences in our newspaper, WorkersWildWest, which we gave out to 2,000 local workers at warehouse gates at dawn. We tried to rebuild class power and create a small cell of a revolutionary organisation. This book documents our experiences. It is material for getting rooted. It is a call for an independent working class organisation."
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By RybinThis is an audio recording of a reading of the book Class Power on Zero-Hours. The Angry Education Workers, a collective directly inspired by the book, is undertaking this effort. We are a political art collective of radical education workers who want to make and distribute art that can help counter the capitalist drive to destroy public education.
In this chapter, the AngryWorkers delve into a history of food production under capitalism and describe its centrality to the functioning and dysfunctioning of capitalist economics. Over the course of the chapter, the AngryWorkers bring us down to earth in the Bakkover ready-meals plant where some of them worked. All of this is to introduce their framework of "workers inquiry", one originally developed by Marx and used by various worker movements and political collectives ever since. This is a powerful organizing tool that worker-organizers can take up in the education industry should take up.
Find everything we do with Angry Education Workers at https://linktr.ee/angryedworkers or contact us directly at [email protected]
https://linktr.ee/proletarianpedagoguehttps://linktr.ee/proletarianpedagoguehttps://linktr.ee/proletarianpedagoguehttps://linktr.ee/proletarianpedagogue
From the introduction: "In January 2014 some AngryWorkers chose to move to a working class neighbourhood on the fringes of west London. We felt an urgent need to break out of the cosmopolitan bubble and root our politics in working class jobs and lives. We wanted to pay more than just lip service to the classic slogan, 'the emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves.' Over the next six years, comrades joined us and we worked in a dozen different warehouses and factories. We organised slowdowns on shop floors, rocked up on bosses' and landlords' doors with our solidarity network, and banged our heads against brick walls as shop stewards in the bigger unions. We wrote up all our experiences in our newspaper, WorkersWildWest, which we gave out to 2,000 local workers at warehouse gates at dawn. We tried to rebuild class power and create a small cell of a revolutionary organisation. This book documents our experiences. It is material for getting rooted. It is a call for an independent working class organisation."