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Practice aloud so many times that you’re familiar with your points; then all you’ll need is an outline, or your speech with highlighted main points to glance at. Photo: Jim West, jimwestphoto.com It can be scary to speak at a union meeting, a rally, or the meeting of an organization allied to your union. Luckily, it’s a proven fact that everyone can improve their speaking and become a strong advocate for the cause they’re promoting. Even a motion to adjourn! Here we’ll discuss how to prepare and deliver a short talk, and next month we’ll coach you in off-the-cuff remarks made in the heat of discussion.
Unions, Democracy, and the Third Camp Comparing Lessons from New Politics and Herman Benson The decline of labor has been accompanied by an opportunity we have not seen in decades. A new generation of socialists, many of them members of Democratic Socialists of American, are enthusiastically discussing the role of the working class and unions in the fight for socialism. Making the best use of this development requires critically analyzing the past several decades of struggle among labor leftists about how a commitment to socialism “from below” might inform our union activity. In this article I try to frame and spur that debate by comparing the perspective of Herman Benson with material published by other contributors to