On Strike!

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News & analysis to beat the bosses. On Strike is the video broadcast of Workers Strike Back. We cover issues from the perspective of workers’ needs, not billionaire greed. We provide socialist analysis and strategy to build working-class movements, fight against oppression, and for a new mass party for workers and young people. Workers Strike Back is an independent, rank-and-file campaign organizing in our workplaces and on the streets against the bosses and their political servants. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

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Rescind Biden: How Workers Are Organizing Against the Warmonger-in-Chief — with Joe Sugrue

Jun 12 2024 50 mins  
The U.S. Presidential election is now less than 5 months away. Working people continue to struggle, as the world falls deeper into crisis and war. Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza continues, funded off the backs of American workers, even as a majority of Americans oppose the slaughter. Meanwhile, the political establishment and media have presented working people with a rotten fals

Pride 2024: Fighting for Queer Rights with a Working-Class Strategy

Jun 12 2024 53 mins  
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UAW: How Workers Won Big at Chattanooga & Lost at Tuscaloosa

Jun 12 2024 44 mins  
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Chris Hedges EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW about the war on Gaza & strategy for the movement

Jun 10 2024 53 mins  
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Jun 10 2024 47 mins  
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May 09 2024 41 mins  
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May 09 2024 45 mins  
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Apr 20 2024 70 mins  
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