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Pandemics Can Mean Strike Waves

Pandemics Can Mean Strike Waves Jacobin
During the Spanish Flu in 1919 four million workers struck, one-fifth of the workforce, a proportion never since equaled.

Radical Wordsworth, Well-Kept Secrets

Freya Johnston The Guardian
The great English poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850), writes reviewer Johnston, based his groundbreaking style on the "radical claim that apparently trivial things and people, the rhythms of ordinary life, were the stuff of true poetry."