Tag: American Federation of Labor
Michael Parenti: Against Psychopolitics
Many great public issues as well as many private troubles are described in terms of the “psychiatric” — often, it seems, in a pathetic attempt to avoid the large issues and problems of modern society.
— C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination
The Limits of Liberal History
You can’t tell the story of America without the story of labor…
“Saving Carthage”-The Class Formation of a Cold War Deep State (Part One)
Why Are There So Few Large Strikes? Blame the Democratic Party
The number of large strikes has plummeted since the 1970s. The main reason is the link between union leaders and the Democratic Party. That link has to be cut.
Why Are There So Few Large Strikes? Blame the Democratic Party
The Brief Origins of May Day by Eric Chase
Dandelion Salad Originally published May 1, 2015 Republished with permission from IWW by Eric Chase IWW, 1993
Most people living in the United States know little about the International Workers’ Day of May Day. For many others there is an assumption that it is a holiday celebrated in state communist countries like Cuba or the former Soviet Union. Most Americans don’t realize that May Day has its origins here in this country and is as “American” as baseball and apple pie, and stemmed from the pre-Christian holiday of Beltane, a celebration of rebirth and fertility.
The Brief Origins of May Day by Eric Chase
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