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This Week in People’s History, Sept. 5 – 11

Portside
A red Vice-President? in 1983. Prison farm deaths in 1913. West Bank atrocities film bombs in 1983. Who's not a percussionist? in 1953. Dixiecrats kneecap civil rights bill in 1957. Legal liability earthquake in 1973. Chile under the gun in 1973.

Kentucky Autoworkers at Ford Are Preparing for a Strike

LUIS FELIZ LEON Jacobin
Contract negotiations are ongoing between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three automakers — Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. Last month, 500 UAW members at the Ford plant in Louisville, Kentucky, held rallies in preparation for a potential

Defending Allende

Ariel Dorfman The New York Review
The question of where Chile’s true identity lies becomes ever more pressing as the fiftieth anniversary of Pinochet’s coup approaches.

On Four Global Contradictions

Bill Fletcher Jr., Jerry Harris Convergence
Having an analytical framework to understand the key relationships that define the social conditions and political battles we face can guide us in formulating our strategy and tactics on every level—from local to global.