Tom Harrison, back row, center; Joanne Landy, second row, right This interview was originally published in Left History. This version is reposted from New Politics, where it was republished in 2018. Joanne Landy died in 2017. See here for a brief obituary. Introduction
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Mike Parker spent his entire adult life engaged in movements and organizations that he believed would advance the struggle for the creation of a democratic socialist society.
Notes on Class Struggle Unionism under Biden
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden meets with union leaders outside at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, Sept. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
This expands my remarks in a panel with Joe Burns, Donna Murch, and Paul Kirk-Davidoff, organized by Tempest, about class struggle unionism under Biden. Opening and closing remarks of on May 30, 2021 were recorded.
The history of our tendency (I say “our” because I identify Tempest as part of that family tree) offers powerful insights about this moment. In my remarks I look back at the tradition of the Third Camp, articulated in publications of and about the Workers Party (WP) and Independent Socialist League (ISL), as well as my involvement in Berkeley with the Independent Socialist Club (ISC) and the International Socialists when it first formed.
group called the independent socialist club also played a key role in organizing the free-speech movement. it s funny, isn t it, that all these decades later with more democrats slouching toward itsocialism, it takes a conservative republican like donald trump to remind us what itit was all about. freedom. and that s the angle. all right, joining a me now to rock n roll on this topic, to people who were at president trump s executive order signing today. harmeet dhillon, rnc national committee woman from california. and bernadette tasy, correspondant for campusreform.com and a student at california state university. harmeet, practically speaking,g how will this proceed? every agency and department will have a role, how will it work? the agencies mentioned in the executive order, each is supposed to make regulations as