E255 - How the Left Lost the Working Class w/ Gregory Butler

Audio from ILC's first Independent Labor Assembly July 7th, 2024 assembly at Talon Bar in Brooklyn with guest Gregory Butler

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The Independent Labor Club is an organization that seeks to bring workers together from all over to build bonds of free association and strengthen the power of labor. Our guest speaker Gregory A. Butler is a lifelong New Yorker as well as a carpenter in local 608, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America. With decades of experience in the trades, he focuses on the history of working class struggle and union organizing in New York. He is the author of Disunited Brotherhood: Race, Racketeering and the Fall of the New York Construction Unions and is owner and moderator of Gangbox: Construction Workers News Service on the yahoo groups network.

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