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This Week in People’s History, Oct 9–15

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Photo of a woman wearing and academic gown and hat climbing a staircase, with the caption: Breaking Barriers: Women and the Law
A Long Time Coming, and How! (1949), A Work of Towering Imagination (1959), August Wilson Takes Broadway (1984), The Truth Hurts (1999), If Only There Had Been More Advertising (1929), ‘We Are Everywhere’ (1979), Was Nixon Listening? (1969)

Biden’s Amazing Win Settling the Dock Strike

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
The terms are a total victory for dockworkers and for smooth supply chain operation, as the White House faced down exorbitant shipper profits. What would Trump have done?

The UAW’s Rank-and-File Takeover Isn’t Over Yet

Keith Brower Brown / Jane Slaughter Labor Notes
Rank-and-file autoworkers democratized their union, elected president Shawn Fain, and won a landmark strike. Now they will have to win local officer positions, dominated by the old guard, to hold bosses to their word and maintain a fighting union.

Taking Frantz Fanon at His Word

Sazi Bongwe The Nation
There has been an effort to negate Fanon’s ideas and sever them from the people of Palestine. But in his work, I find the beginning of a credible path towards liberation.

The Making of the Springfield Working Class

Gabriel Winant The New York Review of Books
Each generation of this country’s workforce has always been urged to detest the next—to come up with its own fantasies of cat-eating immigrants.