The Wobblies (1979): What the IWW means for the working class today
The film’s most remarkable, and moving, aspect is that its dialogue is carried forward almost entirely by former rank-and-file members of the IWW.
Tom Mackaman•
Labor history
The 1986–1987 Deere strike and lockout: Lessons from an earlier UAW betrayal
In the strike-turned-lockout, Deere workers showed enormous determination to defend their jobs and living standards, while the UAW did everything to undermine and sabotage their fight.
Shannon Jones, Marcus Day•
Tentative agreement announced in Kellogg’s strike
The lessons of the International Committee’s 1995 global struggle to defend jobs at Kellogg’s
As workers at Kellogg’s plants in the US prepare to vote on the rotten tentative contract agreement being pushed by the BCTGM they should take note of the critical effort to organize workers internationally in defense of jobs and conditions at Kellogg’s that was launched by the International Committee in 1995.
James Brookfield•
Class struggle watershed
Forty years since the PATCO strike: Part one
With PATCO, history exposed as unviable and bankrupt a labor movement that based itself on anti-communism, defense of the profit system and nationalism.
Tom Mackaman•
Shannon Jones•
Sandy English•
Eric London•
Jerry White•
Shannon Jones•
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