In this video we focus on the concept of 'social murder' as outlines by Friedrich Engels in his 1845 book "The Conditions of the Working Class of England"Then we move onto the media and internet reaction to the murder of CEO Brian Thompson, the folk hero status of our man Luigi, and a general critique of insurance and society from a working class, …

Mike Rowe, of "Dirty Jobs" fame, uses a dubiously earned supposed credibility as a blue collar worker and worker advocate, to smuggle anti-worker, anti-labor, anti-union, and Libertarian-tinged conservative ideas and world views into work which ostensibly glorifies those same groups of people.Join us as we talk about how and why he has chosen to go…

The ALU has affiliated with the Teamsters.The agreement comes after ALU has failed to get Amazon to the table, gone broke, suffered internal strife, and their Reform Caucus has forced a leadership election.Let's discuss the good and the bad.--------------------------------This podcast and related works take a lot of effort and time to produce! Plea…

The Unites Auto Workers lost an election at an Alabama Mercedes plant, accuse Mercedes of illegal union-busting, and swear to continue the fight! The FTC BANS Non-Compete clauses, freeing millions of workers to move to new jobs, and start businesses! Dispensary company INSA forced to recognie union after multiple counts of illegal union-busting und…

The Palestinian people, and Gaza as a place, are being genocided and obliterated and erased from their land.Let's talk about it.-------------This podcast and related works take a lot of effort and time to produce! Please support us wherever you can!WE NOW HAVE MERCH! = https://my-store-8932760.creator-spring.comPlease, if you have a moment, take a …

2023 was a banner year for organized labor - Teamsters got a record contract at UPS, the United Auto Workers got record breaking contracts at the Big 3. Starbucks has been organizing across the nation, SAG-AFTRA/WGA had victories. Vegas Hotel workers and healthcare workers across the country succeeded as well. But what may this mean as we look forw…

Police unions should not exist. Not only do they protect corrupt, violent, even murderous cops, but they are also staunch defenders of the status quo. They use their power to grow in both size and power and to use their strength against the working class and poor. They are the ultra-violent arm of the state which is dead set against the organizing …

The National Labor Relations Board, NLRB, has ruled on the Cemex case, issued their "Final Rule", and Biden altered the calculation for prevailing wage on federal projects - All great wins for labor and the working class. ==================== This podcast and related works take a lot of effort and time to produce! Please help us keep it going if yo…

The United Auto Workers have begun a strike action against Detroit's Big 3 automakers as the corporations refuse to bargain in good faith, give back the concessions they tore from the union during the recession, and balk at raises that these workers not only are deamnding but DESERVE.Join us as we discuss!--------------------------This podcast and …

The United Auto Workers look likely to strike in what would be one of the largest strikes ver in this country. They are fighting for wages and benefits, yes, but also for basic humanity and dignity. Join us as we dive into what got us here, why, and how it might be resolved! ------------------------ This podcast and related works take a lot of effo…

Yellow Freight, the 3rd largest LTL freight company in the country has closed its door and is ready to declare bankruptcy. How did this once venerable, near 100 year old company, get to this point? Who is truly to blame for this turn of events? It's certainly not the Teamsters. Join us as we dig through some history, find the villain(s), and set th…

UPS has bargained in bad faith with their unionized Teamster workforce, left part-timers behind to struggle in "part time poverty", and are now walking away from the table on the brink of a deal.UPS wants to continue harming it's part-time warehouse help while the Teamsters have doubled down on uplifting everybody under their contract.Join us for a…

The US Supreme Court screw over organized labor with their terrible ruling in the Glacier v Teamsters case. Glacier is just the tip of the iceberg in the attack on unions and collective worker actions. Join Tribunus Plebis Media as we break this down. _____________________________ This podcast and related works take a lot of effort and time to prod…

Most workers in the United States and Canada are barely aware of the holiday known as May Day or International Workers Day. Please stop by for a moderate length, yet still incomplete origin story and learn where it came from, what it means, and why we don;t celebrate it in the US and Canada! -------------------------- This podcast and related works…

Bob Lee, tech tycoon, was stabbed to death in San Francisco and the power elite turned all of their ire on the unhoused. The murderer was actually another tech tycoon.Ralph Yarl, Kaylin Gillis, two cheerleaders, and a 6 year old child were amongst the victims of four separate, terrifying, unjustifiable shootings and murders across the country.Join …

Trump is indicted, arrested, and arraigned... and it changes nothing at all. Brandon Johnson is elected Mayor of Chicago and Janet Protasiewicz was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court... and these two have the potential to actually change things in those cities and states. Let's discuss bottom up power, what hope means in the political sense, an…

We go over the lies and propaganda that lead to the illegal war crime that we call the Iraq War and watch and comment on the video Iraq 20 Years Later Link to Original Video: https://youtu.be/RIWfH3iEgXU ______________________________ This podcast and related works take a lot of effort and time to produce! Please help us keep it going if you are ab…

The Warrior Met corporation and the state worked together to snuff out a righteous workers strike in Alabama and the media failed the workers just as badly, myself included. Join me as we discuss why and how this happened. ------------------------------------ This podcast and related works take a lot of effort and time to produce! Please help us ke…

Let's talk about the rhetoric surrounding how we dehumanize and other the unhoused of this country and turn them from neighbors into existential enemies with our words. "You cannot truly help those that you do not Respect. Pity is not respect, victimization is not respect. Criminalizing mere existence and co-existence is not even close to respect. …

Not only does capital have control of the government and media, it also has control of the cultural zeitgeist and it has a hold so powerful that most of us hear a so called journalist ask a locomotive repairman making 80 grand a year or something whether fighting for the ability to not work while they are uncontrollably defecating water and physica…

We need to organize, unionize, work together, and undertake ventures which by their mere existence helps us all see that there are goals out there worth achieving and that the best way to do so is to make cause of common interests no matter our race or creed or culture and, even more importantly, no matter the race, creed, or culture of the worker …

(Ep. 61) [Book Talk] ECONOMISM - Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality, by James Kwak In “Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality”, James Kwak makes a compelling case that an overly simplistic understanding of economics (‘Econ 101’) is exacerbating the economic, social, and political problems of both the United States and the world a…

Today I want to talk about class, solidarity, and the labor struggle. I’m going to argue that the way we use class in the united states is purposefully misleading, intentionally vague and, ultimately, destructive. Class, when defined properly, is an incredibly important concept. But, as we will see, the way we talk about class in the united states …

Let’s talk about William “Big Bill” Dudley Haywood! Standing at 6 feet tall and weighing well over 200 pounds, Big Bill was truly larger than life as he battled mining trusts, corporations, private armies, and government forces alike. He fought them with his agile mind, his calloused knuckles, and probably most importantly he damaged them with his …

Billionaires give to destroy the country and they give to fill the gaps in society which they create along the way. Philanthropy is being used to reify the ultra wealthy, sustain and support power and influence, and destroy democracy and choice. Philanthropic giving is about power and the arrogant assumptions that the wealthy know better what to do…

Donald Trump gets raided, and the fallout from the Breonna Taylor murder continues. What do these two events have in common? They can help us understand how systemically corrupt, violent, and lazy the justice system truly is and this understanding can provide insight into the crumbling of the 4th amendment, especially as it relates to class dispari…

Stochastic Terrorism noun 1. The public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act, which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted. Join me for a discussion of rhetoric, demagogues, power wielders, and the probable but unpredictable terror which they are able to unleash on the world at la…

The cowardice of the police in Uvalde was shameful enough, but since that horrific event those same police have shown cowardice in a myriad of other ways. Everything from their initial lies about what happened, wrongfully blaming innocent people, lying about the events and trying to gaslight everybody, and even right down to harassing the woman who…

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, and opens the door to return to the dark days of no federal protection for same-sex marriage, anti-sodomy laws, loss of contraceptive care, and possibly even interracial marriage. Also: Cops get even more immunity, immigrants lose yet another basic right, and more chuds will b…

Just me yelling about cowardly, quailing, perpetually shook police and how their lack of action killed children in the Uvalde, TX school shooting. ---------------------------- This podcast and related works take a lot of effort and time to produce! Please help us keep it going if you are able with a one-time donation or recurring subscription at Bu…

A white supremacist murdered multiple people in Buffalo, NY, driven to murder by, at least in part, the so-called Great Replacement conspiracy theory which is extremely popular amongst racists, nazis, white supremacists all across the globe, and the alt-right in the United States. This racist theory has been trumpeted all across the media, but nowh…

The Supreme Court is about to officially overturn Roe v. Wade and Florida passes homophobic law. I guess we shouldn't be surprised, but we should definitely be angry about these things. ------------------------------------------ This podcast and related works take a lot of effort and time to produce! Please help us keep it going if you are able wit…

Such was the power of El Pulpo, the United Fruit Company octopus, whose arms stretched across the Caribbean and throughout Central and South America. They ran countries, monopolized shipping lanes, hoarded land, corrupted militaries and governments, used the United State military as knuckle breakers and as their own personal military force, and bro…

Policy ghouls are telling us, in a sort of passive voice sort of way, that if we just impose sanctions on this other country then they’ll be nicer. That’s what they tell us. What they actually do is begin to starve, debase, degrade, torture, and murder poor people in a bid to create internal resentment. Sanctions are cruelty. Sanctions do not work.…

Welcome to the inaugural "Book Talk" episode on Tribunus Plebis! We will discuss the book "Austerity - The History of a Dangerous Idea" by Mark Blyth, as well as austerity in a broader, more general discussion! Austerity is, basically, the idea that regressively taxing citizens while also drastically reducing government spending on basic services i…

I listened to REI's anti-union podcast so that you don't have to!Employees at REI's flagship SoHo store have filed to form a union and REI hired a law firm to help them fight against it's employees with a groan inducing woke-backed anti-union message.The dynamic duo of CEO Eric and Lawyer Wilma star alongside Anti-Worker Rhetoric.I listen, react, a…

Monopsonistic practices by corporations are simply an exertion of power over the labor force. This power dichotomy is not a mistake and it is not a symptom of some other issue. The power imbalance is purposefully baked into a system which pre-supposes scarcity and demands constant profit growth and mass distribution of wealth to the investor class,…

The problems with this ‘fissuring of the workplace and economy’ are manifold. Wages are depressed, job security is destroyed, fewer people with company provided insurance, etc. As all of these wage and benefit structures collapse in favor of the lowest bid, there is further degradation of these systems further downstream. When workers lose the abil…

The one thing that has been consistent in hyper capitalist america over the past… well, forever… is that companies and capital owners will absolutely, positively, without doubt and without hesitation put employees lives on the line to make an extra buck and nobody but the workers themselves have ever been able to put a stop to it. It was true in 19…

I recently made use of a safety net program to get food into our home and had some thoughts about using welfare and the phenomena of Karen's and Ken's trying to shame struggling people and families. I also touch on the Rittenhouse debacle and the Arbery trial and it's verdict. No, he isn't a hero, yes, they were racist scumbags. And, no, the Arbery…

Members of The Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union, representing workers at various Kellogg's plants just voted down a proposed contract and continue their strike! Solidarity! Kellogg's is set to hire 'replacement workers', aka SCABS. This episode is for those thinking about crossing the picket lines and stealing jobs fro…

The citizenry of the United States is on the ropes. We are fed up, broke, unhealthy, unlikely to succeed, and dying sooner than we should be. And all that through no fault of our own. A revolution still seems far-fetched for some, but I don’t agree. A revolution is far closer than most of us would like to admit. There is still time, but things must…

As I was pondering the impact of #Striketober and the surge of union strikes and general labor activity in 2021, my mind drifted back to the strikes of 2018 and 2019 and what they mean for the current movement. We look back to those pre-2020 labor actions and even dip our toes into labor related legislative and cultural issues which both fed the ri…

Company towns harm workers, they do nothing to combat inequality - in fact they only exacerbate inequality, and they DEFINITELY do not promote anything we can even remotely call ‘freedom’ Company towns are nothing less than base feudalism. They always have been, they are right now, and they always will be. ------------------------------------------…

Of course we had to pull out of Afghanistan. Let's explore why. Link to mentioned CIA Paper: https://bit.ly/3jtFA2i Link to mentioned "Afghanistan Papers": https://wapo.st/3DzKlPN __________________________________________________ Please, if you have a moment, take a second to rate and review on Apple! It's the single best way you can help us grow …

Should we? Can we? Will we? Please join me as we discuss prison abolition - The what, when, and how. This isn't about making better cages. This is about no more cages The goal, in fact, is not just to disappear prisons, but to actually make them unnecessary. ------------------------------------------- Please, if you have a moment, take a second to …

It is OK to demand change, at all levels, from local to systemic, even if we aren't quite sure HOW to make those changes. Also, the past is clear to see, and the future is predictable, or at least we think it is. These perspectives are the easiest for us to take. The most difficult is to deal with what we are actually doing RIGHT NOW. Right now is …

Mike Gravel was the rare person who attained power and maintained his morals and ethics. He is most famous for reading the Pentagon Papers into the public record via Senate sub-committee and for screaming truth into the face of power. Mike Gravel was a real one. Rest In Power. If you enjoy these podcasts, please take a second to rate and/or review …

Zach and bread_theory invited me on their stream to help break down and contextualize chapter 12 from the seminal anarchist work "The Conquest of Bread" by Peter Kropotkin. The chapter was a bit longer than others so we broke it into two seperate streams. The first half was previosuly released as Episode 32 of this podcast. For more from bread_theo…

Eugene V. Debs - Labor organizer, socialist, warrior for the working class. “Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it…