The Partisan is republishing this article from the series “A Worker’s Guide To” originally published on New Labor Press. These articles outline basic principles of organizing work for activists to successfully mobilize, politicize, and organize the working and oppressed masses. We encourage all readers to study these articles and apply them to their work, in order to further the development of class struggle in their work.

In the course of organizing your coworkers it is necessary to learn the proper strategy and tactics of talking to your coworkers. We should be very clear, there is a right way and a wrong way to talk to each other. We can start with the whole point of talking to each other: getting to know each other’s opinion and working together to have genuine workplace democracy by mobilizing people for action. We have to get the most people involved as possible! The process outlined below does not have to be followed to a tee. The objective of this article is to lay out general principles of either getting someone involved or getting someone’s opinion. We should be strategic with who we talk to and tactical with how we talk with people. This means there are certain people we should or can talk to and we should be ensuring we do it in the right way.

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