A collection of articles, responses and replies to a debate on unions in 2013. Copied to clipboard The Problematic of the Union in the U.S. – What is to Be Done? (Part 1) The Problematic of the Union in the U.S. – What is to be Done? (Part 2) Abstract political differences, concrete questions of what rupture looks like The Internationalist Group’s response to “The problematic of the union in the U.S” (1 & 2) A reply to John Garvey Will critically responds to the union debates John Reimann responds with words of wisdom Our friends with benefits: on the union question - Unity and Struggle Mara Responds to Jocelyn and James Jocelyn and James Respond Finding Our footing on the union question Book traversal links for On the union debate The Problematic of the Union in the U.S. – What is to Be Done? (Part 1) Printer-friendly version unions debates Comments Just spent a lot of time Just spent a lot of time putting this into a parent library entry, reformatting the text, titles and tags to match libcom style, etc. Hope its useful.
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