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if they take away the ceiling on rent
you may find yourself living in a tent
May 29
I'm almost done the Fragile Juggernaut podcast about the CIO and it's been wonderful to learn about labour history but a great part is hearing stuff like a Pete Seeger song about price controls or old recordings of activists.
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May 29
I'm almost done the Fragile Juggernaut podcast about the CIO and it's been wonderful to learn about labour history but a great part is hearing stuff like a Pete Seeger song about price controls or old recordings of activists.
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It's here: the inaugural issue of @phenomenalworld, on American Power in the age of Trump, has just been published online.
Featuring essays on Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, China and the Gulf, plus Tim Barker's sweeping history of 'declinisms'.
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HANDS OFF CUBA! (Western Worker newspaper, 1933)
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All eyes on Cuba
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Organize the South
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HANDS OFF CUBA! (Western Worker newspaper, 1933)
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All eyes on Cuba
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(via @BL_Balthaser's book on transnational radical culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War: press.umich.edu/Books/A/Anti…)
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May 21
"The real index of the world crisis is the way it reaches deeply into the personal life of almost everyone." - Paul Sweezy, 1950
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Harvey Milk speaks with members of ILWU
May 21
47 years ago, May 21 1979, over a dozen cop cars burned as thousands marched and rioted in San Francisco after word broke that Dan White received the most lenient verdict for murdering George Moscone and Harvey Milk. The evening would become known as the White Night riots
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12 Sep 2025
huh turns out they did it anyway
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May 15
In WW2, the USA said: Don't talk about it.
Now I say, let's talk about TROOP MOVEMENTS — my book out this Sep.
See blurbs from Robin DG Kelley & others—and, PRE-ORDER it!
amazon.com/Troop-Movements-S…
Contact me with any ideas? — RE: event, teach it, podcast, book-review, etc. Thx!
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“Heed this cry from Macedonia”
Could any contemporary labor leader ever wield such logophile syndicalism???
10 Apr 2024
A snapshot of a John L. Lewis speech we read from and discuss at length in our latest episode. As @_ericblanc argues, his grandiose quality of speech reflected that workers wanted unions not just for modest improvements but out of a fundamental transformation of their lives.
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Looking for more labor podcasts? Check out MD250, a collaborative and volunteer-run project focused on Maryland's long history of labor struggles.
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Link: md250laborhistory.org/
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A brilliant essay from Noel Ignatiev, reflecting on two decades of work and struggle in heavy industry. In every workplace, anywhere, there are "thousands, millions" of daily skirmishes that shape the field of political possibility.
Can we see them?
longhaulmag.com/present-dept…
May 15
In the fall of 1984, when he was a new doctoral student at Harvard, Noel Ignatiev submitted an essay for an independent study. Entitled “Present Depths,” the paper surveyed the rapid and cataclysmic changes then taking place across US society.
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May 8
Articles in other disciplines that have to justify why they're doing history are so good. "Events in human affairs often unfold in temporal sequence (Johnson 1983). Some argue that there exist causal relations that can be understood through retrospective study (Valdez 2013)."
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Thanks Kim! Agreed, @longhaul_mag and @RADIO_CIO got me thinking more about the need to document rank and file artists. longhaulmag.com/coffee-and-h…
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Happy May Day, comrades!
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