Joe Clement presents the Well-read Red. Strikes are one of the fundamental weapons of the working-class for effecting social change. The material power workers have in the workplace, their ability to grind things to a halt, is useful for forcing bosses and the state alike. Joe considers how recent strikes have been used and are in use challenging the state's total invasion of women's reproductive rights in Poland, and the technically legal but no less outrageously immoral use of slave labor in the prison-industrial complex.
For further reading on the women's strike in Poland, and its possible inspiration from Iceland's 1975 women's strike, see HERE, HERE,HERE and HERE.
For more about the national prison strike, led by the Industrial Workers of the World supported Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, see HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.
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