Category: Guides
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A Worker’s Guide to: Organizing for Demands
The demands and grievances of the working class are the objective force driving the labor movement forward. Therefore, in the course of any labor organizing there will come a point when the demands and grievances of the workers, and the question of how to develop a successful campaign around them,… Read more
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A Worker’s Guide to: Talking to Your Co-Workers
By: New Day at Amazon In the course of organizing your coworkers it is necessary to learn the proper strategy and tactics of talking to your coworkers. We should be very clear, there is a right way and a wrong way to talk to each other. We can start with… Read more
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Resource: Final Version of State Unionism Presentation
New Labor Press is excited to present the final version of the presentation on state unionism created by the shop organization Strike the Stage!, which is a member of the New Labor Organizing Committee, that we presented an early draft of in February. The presentation covers basic points regarding a… Read more
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Resource: Study Group Presentation on State Unionism
NLP is excited to share a presentation that a leading comrade in Strike the Stage and the New Labor Organizing Committee has made to conduct small group studies with workers in her area on state unionism and the class line in the labor movement. The presentation is informative, covers the… Read more
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A Worker’s Guide to: Shop Organizing
NLP is happy to present its most comprehensive and complete guide to date: our Shop Organizing Guide. In addition to replacing our earlier “Shop Unit Guide”, which was one of our first works and because of that had a few limitations (such an imprecise use of the term “unit”), the… Read more
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Report: On Right-to-Work Laws and State Unions
By: A Worker in the US South If the National Labor Relations Act was the “carrot” for state unionism in the US, the Taft-Hartley Act, passed in 1947, was the stick. It aimed to put limits on the legally-recognized powers of the state unions; included in the act was the… Read more
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A Worker’s Guide to: Theoretical Publications
“There is a prevailing theoretical poverty within the US revolutionary movement on a wide variety of subjects (party reconstitution, national question, women’s question, LGBT question, labor question, etc.), in large part due to the extensive and damaging legacy of revisionism within the US movement. It was our country, mostly due… Read more
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Political Economy of the American Labor Movement
In this article, we at New Labor Press are excited to present an initial attempt at outlining the broad central features of the current US labor movement. Building off our prior work, the text looks at total organization, revenue, assets, political connections, activity, internal features, structure, and other key points… Read more
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A Workers’ Guide to Trotskyism
There are people promoting ideas of all sorts in the labor movement. By far the dominant ideology is labor-liberalism: all the state unions spend massive amounts of money and man-hours on the Democratic Party and take up jobs in the government and party. The second most prominent ideology is Trotskyism—it… Read more
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A Workers’ Intro to Distributing Shop Papers
The point of the shop paper is to get everyone in the existing or future bargaining unit on the same page theoretically and politically, in particular regarding the relationship between the workers, the owners/employers, their agents in the labor movement (the corporate/government/state unions), and the collective actions that need to… Read more
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