How We Relate
In Politics, Business,
Production & Work
How We Live And Work Together,
What Is Wrong About It,
How To Fix It
Ordinary people voting
conservatives, hostile to
their interests and those
of their relatives, friends,
neighbours and workmates,
into government; deserting
progressive parties that try
to look after their interests
for not doing enough; getting
angry about politics or turning
off from it; getting politically
hostile to people over their
private characteristics; getting
angry with each other; and
turning for a simple answer
to bombastic politicians who,
representing the interests of
the wealthy, divert them into
blaming anybody else but
their class, the business class.
In making their living, employers
bossing them, mis-treating them,
and cornering obscene wealth
from their work.
All this is because we will not look
at the essentials - how we relate
in politics, business, production
and work.
We need to develop from them
a commonly-known, factual,
unarguable framework of how
we live and work together as a
foundation for political thinking,
debate and behaviour.
This work provides one, free to
download in a range of sizes.
This website is just a platform for downloads
and links. The large size of the text on some
devices is explained at the bottom.
FREE DOWNLOADS
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Work & Politics As Football.pdf
They are organised. We Are Not. Two pages.
A 2,000 word, five-minute read.
Why People Should Read How We Relate.pdf
In Normal Size Text -
The Compact How We Relate.pdf 90 pp.
The Essential HWR and other starter material
from the full book; the Ten, Twenty and
Thirty Minute Reads; and the Special Papers
(see below).
How We Relate.pdf v.2025.4. 368 pp
The full work. Read to page 50 for the
essentials, which include The Ten,
Twenty & Thirty Minute Reads.
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How To Talk To Each Other About Politics.pdf
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How To Talk To Each Other About Politics for print.pdf
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- a version for progressive movements
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Three one-page charts - some of the
key points of the work as diagrams -
The Right To Unionise
How We Relate In Politics
How We Make All The Wealth
Or It Is Our Money Not Theirs
How the beliefs and behaviour of the
business class and conservatives show
that national identity and nationalism
are shallow forms of collectivism and
that class is not.
Taken from the full book.
224 pages. v.2024.4
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Ed McDonnell is a retired lecturer
who taught union workplace reps/
shop stewards and has been
active in class politics and
the labour movement for
fifty years, in the UK.
Why the simple website -
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