Layers of Organization - Chapter 4 - The Newspaper (Class Power on Zero Hours)
Release Date: 02/25/2023
Workers Inquiry 1 - Chapter 7 - Food in Capitalism
Rybin Reads Theory
This is an audio recording of a reading of the book Class Power on Zero-Hours. The Angry Education Workers, a collective directly inspired by the book, is undertaking this effort. We are a political art collective of radical education workers who want to make and distribute art that can help counter the capitalist drive to destroy public education. In this chapter, the AngryWorkers delve into a history of food production under capitalism and describe its centrality to the functioning and dysfunctioning of capitalist economics. Over the course of the chapter, the AngryWorkers bring us down to...
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Layers of Organization Chapter 6 - Syndicalism 2.0 and the IWW Organizing Drive
Rybin Reads Theory
This is an audio recording of a reading of the book Class Power on Zero-Hours. The Angry Education Workers, a collective directly inspired by the book, is undertaking this effort. We are a political art collective of radical education workers who want to make and distribute art that can help counter the capitalist drive to destroy public education. In this chapter, the AngryWorkers describe their critique on trade unionism, followed by an exploration of syndicalism's revival in the last 15 years. Consistent with their reflective, analytical mindset, the collective also offers critiques of...
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Layers of Organization Chapter 5 - Working Class Families and Women's Realities—In and Beyond Work
Rybin Reads Theory
The collective dives deep into the family lives of working class people in West London, with a special focus on women's overlooked role in production and reproduction. Their focus is on material reality: the ways that expensive housing, low wages, and oppressive border regimes fuel the subjugation of women "in an era of legal equality." For those of us in education, this is especially necessary to think about. Educators outside of support staff are overwhelmingly women. Many are mothers or have other family or social obligations. We need to find ways to meet our own needs as workers and as...
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Layers of Organization - Chapter 4 - The Newspaper (Class Power on Zero Hours)
Rybin Reads Theory
The AngryWorkers describe the function of their newspaper in their "layers of organization." These layers refer to the specific ways their collective is choosing to intervene in the class struggle. Education workers design "interventions" on our own "production lines", so to speak, all the time, so this chapter is particularly relevant to us. The newspaper, or something like it, can collect, convey, and synthesize working class experiences and issues. It makes me think of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit, who used numerous newspapers rooted in individual auto plants to...
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Layers of Organization Chapter 3 - An Overtime Strike at Waitrose and a Slowdown at Sainsbury's (Class Power on Zero Hours)
Rybin Reads Theory
The AngryWorkers relay their experiences agitating their coworkers in two large and strategic workplaces in West London. Their efforts bear fruit in the form of collective actions taken by precarious temp workers, outside of official union channels. This is an audio recording of a reading of the book Class Power on Zero-Hours. The Angry Education Workers, a collective directly inspired by the book, is undertaking this effort. Get in touch with Angry Education Workers at and ...
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Layers of Organization Chapter Two - The Solidarity Network and Local Campaigns (Class Power on Zero Hours)
Rybin Reads Theory
In this chapter of Class Power on Zero Hours, the AngryWorkers describe what a solidarity network is, what it can accomplish, and how they put these theories to the test in West London and beyond. This is an audio recording of a reading of the book Class Power on Zero-Hours. The Angry Education Workers, a collective directly inspired by the book, is undertaking this effort. Get in touch with Angry Education Workers at and https://linktr.ee/proletarianpedagoguehttps://linktr.ee/proletarianpedagoguehttps://linktr.ee/proletarianpedagoguehttps://linktr.ee/proletarianpedagogue Some of us are also...
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Layers of Organization Chapter One - West London (Class Power on Zero Hours)
Rybin Reads Theory
This episode, as well as the following one, has lower quality audio than I would like. I fixed the issue with my audio recording software, so it shouldn't be an issue from now on. The AngryWorkers provide an abbreviated history of West London from a working class perspective. This sort of local history is really important to understanding the broader context you're organizing in. Your workplace doesn't exist in a vaccuum, it operates within a wider industry that intersects with multiple others. On top of that is an ever changing political, social, and demographic landscape. This is an audio...
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Class Power on Zero Hours Preface + Introduction
Rybin Reads Theory
This is an audio recording of a reading of the book Class Power on Zero-Hours. The Angry Education Workers, a collective directly inspired by the book, is undertaking this effort. Get in touch with Angry Education Workers at or Find the host, Rybin, at or https://linktr.ee/proletarianpedagoguehttps://linktr.ee/proletarianpedagoguehttps://linktr.ee/proletarianpedagoguehttps://linktr.ee/proletarianpedagogue Some of us are also involved with the Education Workers Organizing Committee (EWOC) of the DC Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a rank and file led union. We think the IWW can...
info_outlineThe AngryWorkers describe the function of their newspaper in their "layers of organization." These layers refer to the specific ways their collective is choosing to intervene in the class struggle. Education workers design "interventions" on our own "production lines", so to speak, all the time, so this chapter is particularly relevant to us. The newspaper, or something like it, can collect, convey, and synthesize working class experiences and issues. It makes me think of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit, who used numerous newspapers rooted in individual auto plants to coordinate their movement in the 1970s.
This is an audio recording of a reading of the book Class Power on Zero-Hours. The Angry Education Workers, a collective directly inspired by the book, is undertaking this effort.
Get in touch with Angry Education Workers at [email protected]
https://linktr.ee/proletarianpedagoguehttps://linktr.ee/proletarianpedagoguehttps://linktr.ee/proletarianpedagoguehttps://linktr.ee/proletarianpedagogue
Some of us are also involved with the Education Workers Organizing Committee (EWOC) of the DC Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a rank and file led union. We think the IWW can be a useful vehicle for angry education workers to use in their quests to build power in their workplaces. If you need support at work, get in touch.
Reach out to them at [email protected], or https://linktr.ee/dmvewoc
AngryWorkers, a small political collective, have spent six years organising in London’s industrial backyard, mainly in the food manufacturing and logistics sector. This book is about their experiences as they try and find new ways of building class power in tough times. It is essential reading for anyone who is grappling with the question: ‘what next for working class politics and revolutionary strategy?’
From the introduction: "In January 2014 some AngryWorkers chose to move to a working class neighbourhood on the fringes of west London. We felt an urgent need to break out of the cosmopolitan bubble and root our politics in working class jobs and lives. We wanted to pay more than just lip service to the classic slogan, ‘the emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves.’ Over the next six years, comrades joined us and we worked in a dozen different warehouses and factories. We organised slowdowns on shop floors, rocked up on bosses’ and landlords’ doors with our solidarity network, and banged our heads against brick walls as shop stewards in the bigger unions. We wrote up all our experiences in our newspaper, WorkersWildWest, which we gave out to 2,000 local workers at warehouse gates at dawn. We tried to rebuild class power and create a small cell of a revolutionary organisation. This book documents our experiences. It is material for getting rooted. It is a call for an independent working class organisation."