5LL #261 - Listening, UAW, Repression, Track and Field, Succession

How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth?
Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba, Boston Review
Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.
‘No Justice, No Jeeps!’ Scenes from the Auto Workers Strike
Keith Brower Brown, Luis Feliz Leon and Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes
Last night the Auto Workers (UAW) shut down three major assembly plants at Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler). It’s the first time in history the union has struck all three companies at once.
RICO and Stop Cop City: The Long War Against the Left
Dan Berger, Radical History Review
While the charges against the Stop Cop City activists will rightly strike many as both outlandish and terrifying, RICO has a long history of being used as an expansive assault on leftwing radicals.
At the Tip of the Javelin
Mike Gallagher, The New Inquiry
The economic structure of elite track and field and the attacks on trans participation in sport are not separate.
“Succession” & Prestige TV’s Fascism Problem
Michael Szalay, Public Books
Ever since The Sopranos, prestige TV has naturalized the labor hierarchies and property relations of family businesses while embracing ostensibly blue-collar entrepreneurs who struggle against an invasive and frequently hostile state.
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