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City must rein in anti-union nonprofits

This week, a toddler named Elio lost his health insurance on his birthday. Hospitalized with leukemia, Elio’s parents lost their health insurance when their employer, the nonprofit Mobilization For … ....

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It's about power, not income equality

During the Cold War, the demand for higher pay became the demand for “income equality.” The reason appeared obvious: for the past five decades the income gap between the top and bottom has grown … ....

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Killing the Taylor Law - The Chief

At a recent worker organizing conference I heard a talk by a PSC-CUNY member who called for repealing the Taylor Law. During the break, while we talked about how to do that, they dismissed using … ....

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When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 – Robert Ovetz

When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 explores one of the most tumultuous times in United States history. Self-organized workers recomposed their power by devising new strategies and tactics to disrupt the capitalist economy and extract concessions. Mine, railroad, steel, and iron workers pursued a strategy of tension that sometimes erupted into militant class conflict and general strikes in which workers took over and ran a number of cities. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, When Workers Shot Back argues that the escalation of working-class conflict drives rather than reacts to the consolidation and reorganisation of capital and economic and political reform of the state. Studying the class composition of this period illustrates why workers escalated the intensity of their tactics, even using tactical violence, to extract concessions and reforms when all other efforts to do so were blocked, co-opted or repressed. ....

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Eugene V. Debs and the struggle of railroaders

Debs' life from locomotive fireman, to trade unionist, to socialist candidate for American president, to class war prisoner holds crucial lessons for today’s workers. ....

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