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Black History Is Also America’s History: A Reading List

AFL-CIO Staff AFL-CIO
And it’s America’s labor history, too. It’s coming together to fight for freedom and justice. Our Civil, Human and Women’s Rights Department has put together a list of recommended reading for the month.

Tidbits – Jan. 25, 2024 – Reader Comments: GOP Winner of Iowa Caucus -Total Loser Election Day; Military and Climate Crisis; Looking to CIO – “Forgot” Left Leaders of Auto Strike; Learn Revolutionary Medicine – In Cuba; Global Protests for Palestine

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Reader Comments: GOP Winner of Iowa Caucus Has Been Total Loser Come Election Day; Military and Climate Crisis; Looking to CIO - Post "Forgot" Left Leaders of Auto Strike; Learn Revolutionary Medicine - in Cuba; Global Protests for Palestine; more..

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Trade Unionist Harry Bridges Remade the Labor Movement

Gabriel Winant Jacobin
Radical labor leader Harry Bridges helped create one of the US's most powerful unions, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Its founding principles were anti-racism and worker autonomy, which he learned from rank-and-file dockworkers and

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The Many Worlds of American Communism

Joel Wendland-Liu Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
This new study of the Communist Party USA, says, reviewer Wendland-Liu, "is at its best in its detailed treatment of political debates and the labor histories of the formative period and the popular front period."

Want a Labor Party? Learn From the UK

Eric Blanc Labor Politics
What is the most viable path to a working-class party in the United States? How to Implode a Two-Party System from Within.

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Despite the Losses, the Singing Continues

Luis Rodriguez Capital & Main
From rust belt assembly lines to Amazon warehouses, former Los Angeles poet laureate Luis Rodriguez reminds us that labor has always been at the center of the American story.

Friday Nite Videos | June 30, 2023

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The Democrats Have Moves To Flip the House. Grandmaster Flash 50 Years of Hip Hop - Full Performance. When Flight Attendants Fought the Airline Industry and Won. Every Body | Movie. How America’s Richest Donate Their Money
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