Ep 225 - UAW Strike EMERGENCY POD

UAW Strike updates! We hear Sean's analysis of the struggles of US autoworkers since 2018, various strategies the government has used to intervene, evaluated the takes of Brandon and Drumpf, ponder a Titoist Obama, and discuss the revolutionary position.In the fun half we summarize the positions of the Trotsyist SEP and WSWS, a critique from the Bolshevik Tendency, and argue why abolishing the value form would be a more popular demand than electing a socialist politician or taxing the rich. Some of the stuff we read for the episoe:https://labornotes.org/2023/09..../no-justice-no-jeeps https://labornotes.org/2023/09..../auto-workers-strike press on democracy now: https://www.democracynow.org/2....023/9/15/uaw_strike_ wildcat-leader Jim Cramer maulding: https://twitter.com/MorePerfec....tUS/status/170231838 audio: https://twitter.com/CBSNews/st....atus/170272378450605 audio https://twitter.com/MorePerfec....tUS/status/170273347 listen fodder from NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/0....9/12/podcasts/the-da NYT (oops the econ policies we’ve pushed for two generations backfired, never mind!): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/0....9/15/briefing/uaw-st at the heart of Bidenomics: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/0....9/15/us/politics/bid Nolan: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/....p/whose-fault-is-it- https://www.wsws.org/en/articl....es/2023/09/15/nvxk-s -Critique of SEP: https://bolsheviktendency.org/....2022/11/07/will-lehm Green and Ben Kweller - Kokomo