
On Political Organising
Chapter 8. Part I: What is political organising within the trade union form?
The Solidarity Wedge is a Substack by Godfrey Moase on labour movement strategy and building worker power. His opinions are very much his own.
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Chapter 8. Part I: What is political organising within the trade union form?
Chapter 4: Strategically and tactically assessing solidarity bargaining. Part VII: The case against solidarity bargaining: on wages, and delegate capacity.
Why importing the logic of capitalist efficiency into social organisations is a poor way to build power.

Chapter 4: Strategically and tactically assessing solidarity bargaining. Part VI: The case against solidarity bargaining: free-riding, increasing wages within capitalism, and dealing with reaction.

The cybernetic principle of recursion and its organisational implications
Chapter 4: Strategically and tactically assessing solidarity bargaining. Part V: The case against solidarity bargaining: reinforcing the authority of technocratic processes.

This the first post in a project I’m calling Project Cyberorg - an exploration of managerial cybernetics and what it means for building a revived Left.

Chapter 4: Strategically and tactically assessing solidarity bargaining. Part IV: Why some union leaders would be hostile to solidarity bargaining.

On the reverse polarity visible in former social democratic and labour parties, and what it means for the rise of the far right.

Chapter 4: Strategically and tactically assessing solidarity bargaining. Part III: How solidarity bargaining can exploit fissures within the capitalist class.