Michael Merrill spoke with Richard Lipsitz, former business agent of Teamster’s Local 264 in Buffalo NY and president of the Western New York Area Federation for Liberty and Justice For All. Their talk is about how unions build worker power and fight corporate greed.
Read a lightly edited transcript of their conversation by clicking here.
Mike writes about their conversation in more depth here here.
Or watch the conversation on YouTube by clicking here.
Economically progressive senatorial candidates need a party, says Les Leopold. The question, in red states, is whether that party is the Democratic one, or a new organization built from the ground up by workers and small farmers.
Read Les’s article by clicking here.
It’s not possible. Or is it?
And if the do win, Les Leopold writes, they better make some changes:
“It will take more than new slogans, better focus groups, or even new working-class candidates. It will require replacing the entire ecosystem of generationally wealthy operatives who shape the party’s priorities to reflect their own interests rather than the interests of working people.”
