The Ghosts Labor Tried to Bury

🎧 This episode dives into Jeff Schuhrke’s No Neutrals There, a haunting excavation of the American labor movement’s long entanglement with Zionism and empire. It traces a century of choices that tied union officialdom to colonial power while silencing the voices of workers who tried to stand with Palestine. Moving from the docks of Haifa to the ruins of Gaza, the episode reflects on forgotten acts of solidarity, the bureaucratic hunger for respectability, and the moral test facing a new generation of workers today. It is a quiet meditation on betrayal, memory, and the possibility of a different future if labor chooses courage over comfort.