In this BONUS EPISODE, as part of our multi-episode series on the GM Layoffs, we talk with writer, activist, and intellectual Sam Gindin. We talk about the history of the auto worker unions in Canada, and we talk about how the GM layoffs fit into the larger picture of the ongoing war between labor and capital, between workers and the ruling class. We also talk about what this all means for the future of the labor movement, and about how we are experiencing one of those special, terrifying, but vital moments in history--a moment when there is real, raw, but fleeting potential to break our collective future away from the predestined path of eventual destruction. 

Additional links/info below...

• Sam Gindin's Wikipedia page
• Sam Gindin, books-sam-gindin-the-canadian-auto-workers-the-birth-and-transformation-of-a-union.htm">The Canadian Auto Workers: The Birth and Transformation of a Union 
• Sam Gindin Leo Panitch, The Making of Global Capitalism 
• Sam Gindin, The Bullet, "Big Three Bargaining: Different Ways of Making History" 
• Sam Gindin Michael Hurley, The Bullet, "Work Overload: Time for a Union Strategy" 
• Sam Gindin, The Bullet, "The Auto Crisis: Placing Our Own Alternative on the Table" 
• Sam Gindin, Socialist Interventions Pamphlet Series, Gindin.pdf">Global Issues: Bringing Class Back In 
• Sam Gindin Herman Rosenfeld, Jacobin, "Follow the Money"

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

• Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"
• David Rovics, "Before the War Came Home"
• Robert Farmer, "A War Worth Fighting"