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Issue 7, the first of which we are publishing with a preview in this format, is the Ballot and the Rebellion. To receive a bimonthly full copy of the magazine issue delivered to your door knowing your funds directly support the independent media we represent, you can subscribe here.
Working Mass is a project of union members and members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in Massachusetts and beyond. We cover strikes, new organizing, and contract campaigns, as well as labor strategy, the reform movement, and socialist politics.
Strikes in the Air, Welcome to Issue 7:
In this issue, organizers debate electoral strategy, from cadre candidates to victory infrastructures, in articles written in between and around clocked-in shifts and showing up day after day for fellow workers on the picket line of the Red Cup Rebellion.
Espresso machines are rusting from disuse, but the fire of solidarity is still running hot.
Note from the Managing Editor
I’m honored to serve as the new managing editor of this publication. I’m from a union family, raised by IATSE rank-and-file worker leaders and United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC) union craftsmen, but what led me into labor was my own conditions – when seventy-hour weeks caught like a prairie fire and fanned into a strike. My coworkers and I organized to contract ratification and strike authorization as rank-and-file members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and Campaign Workers Guild (CWG). These left me with a sense of the electric possibilities of collective action, which socialist struggle only showed an even farther horizon for. The Triangle chapter of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) elected me twice to co-chair the chapter; most recently, I have been active in and served as co-chair of the Somerville branch of Boston DSA.
Experiences on the shopfloor and in organizational leadership leave me with a conviction: politics happens at the base, and radiates up. The places where people spend their time and experience exploitation and domination — including the workplace and home — are the places in which the politics that boil into the class forces shaping electoral landscapes are struggled for and over.
In solidarity,
Travis Wayne
Issue 7 Contributors: Terence Cawley, Maritza S, Matt Wolfinger, Jake S, Ric Blair, Jackie Wilson, Dalton Galloway, Carlos B
1. Starbucks Workers United Supermajority Authorize ULP Strike for November 13
2. WPI Resident Advisors On Strike Against Destructive Restructuring and Unionbusting
3. Winning Online: 5 Digital Tactics That Powered Connolly and Zohran To Victory
4. The Starbucks Strike and the Long Memory of the Kitchen
5. Cross the Finish Line, Not the Picket Line – Newton Runs 5k to Support Striking Starbucks Baristas
Opinion Pieces
1. Electoral Strategy With Every Canvass An Organizing Moment
2. A Revolution Requires Revolutionaries, Not Candidates
3. Oppositional, Independent, and Socialist Candidates
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