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What Is Salting?

Kim Kelly Teen Vogue
A new generation of union activists is embracing all sorts of organizing strategies, including one of the oldest tactics in the pro-union handbook: salting.

2024 Word of the Year: Genocide (As In, Gaza)

Juan Cole Informed Comment
Genocide does not necessarily mean the destruction of a nation accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended to signify a coordinated plan aiming at the destruction of the foundations of the life of national groups.

How Labor Can Fight Trump’s Authoritarianism

Alex Caputo-Pearl Convergence
Labor must adopt an intensified ‘Block and Build’ strategy for the coming years as it organizes broad labor, community, and political alliances against authoritarianism.

This Week in People’s History, Jan 1–7

Portside
Cartoon re carbon dating -- Lump of coal chatting with a diamond
Too Good To Be True (1950), What’s Worse Than One Palmer Raid? (1920), Protest Genocide and Go To Jail (1895), Great Society=Great Hypocrisy (1965), The Big City's Calling (1920), A Writing Star Is Born (1935), Getting Elected Doesn’t Cut It (1920)

A Class in Politics

Edwin F. Ackerman Convergence
How AMLO turned an anti-corruption campaign into an opportunity for economic redistribution.

Woody and Pete on Fascism

Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger UnAmerican Bandstand
This a radio program recorded in the 1940s in which Woody Guthrie sings accompanied in that performance by Sonny Terry on harmonica, Pete Seeger on banjo and Cisco Houston on guitar, they sing the chorus together. Also, two short videos with Pete.