Rachel, Author at Arsenal For Democracy

Lend Lease 12 – Recent Trade-Unionism Action in the US and Europe – Aug 25, 2019

By Rachel August 27, 2019 - 2:18 am August 27, 2019 Radio Show

Description: Final summer episode before our hiatus. Bill and Rachel discuss industrial union action by US flight attendants, European flight crews, European dockworkers and shipyard workers, and Kentucky coal miners, as well as Bernie Sanders’ new proposal for federal union rights legislation.

Links and notes for episode 12 (PDF): http://arsenalfordemocracy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Lend-Lease-Episode-12-Notes-and-Links-Latter-Day-Syndicalist-Action-in-the-First-World.pdf

Intro music by friend of the show Stunt Bird.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Lend Lease 11 – American Anarchy Part 2: The Extremism Debate and State Violence

By Rachel August 13, 2019 - 11:26 pm December 11, 2022 Radio Show

Description: Part 2 of 2. A discussion of US government repression of anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism from the 1880s to the first Red Scare of the 1920s, as well as the controversial Propaganda of the Deed theory of violence, the role of immigrants in the movement, and the Sacco and Vanzetti trials. From your host Bill Humphrey and co-hosts Rachel and Nate.

Notes for both parts (PDF): http://arsenalfordemocracy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Lend-Lease-Episodes-10-11-American-Anarchy-Anarchist-and-Syndicalist-Movements-of-the-late-19th-and-early-20th-centuries-in-the-United-States.pdf

Music by friend of the show Stunt Bird.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Lend Lease 10 – American Anarchy Part 1: Syndicalist Theory and IWW Practice

By Rachel August 13, 2019 - 11:25 pm May 30, 2020 Radio Show

Description: Part 1 of 2. A historical overview of American anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with a focus on theory and the IWW. From your host Bill Humphrey and co-hosts Rachel and Nate. (Part 2 link)

Music by friend of the show Stunt Bird.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Lend Lease 7 – Democratic Party Power Struggle – July 21, 2019

By Rachel July 22, 2019 - 6:36 am July 22, 2019 Radio Show

The Democratic Party leadership has come completely unmoored from the party base and any coalition necessary to win national elections. But with the party’s legally enshrined institutional power and mass membership in play and time running out on the climate, we are locked in a brutal power struggle. (On the show this week: Bill, Rachel, Nate)

Links and Notes for Episode 7: http://arsenalfordemocracy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Lend-Lease-Ep-7-Links-and-Notes-Democratic-Leadership-Attacks-on-the-Left.pdf