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Ending poverty" sounds good, and so does "raising wages" - these are safe sound bites. They simply ignore the actual history of how any meaningful progress has been won in America or anywhere else - victories that required organization and power.... Mandela didn't change South Africa by being nice, despite the whitewashing of his story after his death. Mandela embraced armed struggle: his analysis of the power context of apartheid demanded it. Each power analysis is contextual, and no, please do
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IWW General Headquarters was collecting information regarding past free speech fights in response to a request from the U.S. Committee on Industrial Relations. Believing the “publicity to be worth the work it will entail,” Vincent St. John made an appeal in Solidarity one week before the September convention. Anyone who had first-hand experience was asked to submit personal narratives, pamphlets, bulletins, reports, and detailed histories regarding the various free speech fights. …. The committe
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― Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family
― Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family
Reading list to understand South Florida's history and the shaping of its politics.…more
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The Young Women's Committee of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (YWC/CLUW) in Philadelphia has…more
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Just a fancy name for a book club for those interested in progressive writers and topics centred…more
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