Mansa sits down with Michael Davisson, editor of Workers Vanguard, and Tom, a public transit worker, who recently came together in a workers' conference hosted by the Spartacist League U.S. which brought together workers from across the country and some from abroad. We discuss the state of labor and the mood amongst the working class half a year into the Trump presidency, the pressures this is having on class struggle militants, and how to combat these while trying to advance the situation of the working class at a juncture where there is little organized labor struggle and the dominant mood is fear, apathy or despair.

Some of the articles we discussed or mentioned in the discussion can be accessed here:

James P. Cannon, Our Aims and Tactics in the Trade Unions https://www.marxists.org/archive/cannon/works/1924/unions.htm

Where is the U.S. going? https://iclfi.org/pubs/wv/1183/us-tasks

Workers: Brace for impact! https://iclfi.org/pubs/wv/1184/brace

Why U.S. imperialism needs Trumpism https://iclfi.org/pubs/wv/1184/trumpism

US imperialism turns the screws https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/70/screws

The death of liberalism https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/2024-liberalism

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