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Workers' Autonomy - Alfredo Bonanno
Bonanno is an Italian anarchist who has been in the struggle for more than 30 years. Here is a small sample of what you have to look forward to in this essay:


"The reformist parties, trades unions and employers have coalesced to obstruct any growth in the level of the struggle, or any conquests that could lead to a revolutionary transformation. The proletariat have only one alternative: to build ...
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Drawing the Line at Pittston - PAPER TIGER TV (Producer)
Drawing the Line at Pittston documents the 1989 coalminers' strike against the Pittston Mine Company in Virginia, West Virginia and eastern Kentucky. This strike proved to be a dramatic symbol for unions everywhere as supporters from around the world rallied behind the United Mine Workers. Although, this immense demonstration was one of the biggest US labor strikes in the last fifty years, it gained l...
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Work, Language and Education in the Industrial State - Michael Duane
Another classic in the Freedom Press Anarchist Discussion Series. Articulates the important connections between the nature of work in industrial society, the exercise of linguistic skills and the importance of an educational understanding and experience of making decisions over matters that affect them.
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Paul Robeson: Words Like Freedom - Sele Nadel-Hayes (Producer) and Patricia Hemphill (Producer)
With this CD, Freedom Archives introduces you to rare spoken words of the great Paul Robeson, illuminating a side of this amazing man's personality and politics that has too often been suppressed. Robeson saw it as his responsibility to speak the truth about conditions both domestic and abroad knowing that his fame would allow these messages to be more widely heard. He was also deeply aware of the consequenc...
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Changing Society: The Lives of Worker Heroes Who Made A Difference - Bob Breving
"Nineteen years ago when I started teaching union members at Roosevelt University, I knew very little about labor history and neither did the students. As we went on a mutual journey, I began to learn about labor history through the papers the students wrote. I read and wrote about John Peter Altgeld, Mother Jones, Walter Reuther, A. Philip Randolph and Eugene V. Debs. A. Philip Randolph, a prominent leader ...
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US Labor In Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform From Above, The Promise of Revival From Below - Kim Moody
U. S. Labor in Trouble and Transition tells the story of union decline in America and of the split in the labor movement it led to, following the dismal tale of union mergers and management partnerships that accompanied the retreat from militancy since the 1980s. Looking to the future, Moody shows how the rise of immigrant labor and its efforts at self-organization can re-energise the unions from belo...
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Revolution And Counterrevolution: Class Struggle In A Moscow Metal Factory - Kevin Murphy
Why did the most unruly proletariat of the Twentieth Century come to tolerate the ascendancy of a political and economic system that, by every conceivable measure, proved antagonistic to working-class interests? Revolution and Counterrevolution is at the center of the ongoing discussion about class identities, the Russian Revolution, and early Soviet industrial relations. Based on exhaustive research ...
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Cesar Chavez: Autobiography Of La Causa - Fred Ross, JR (Preface by), Jacqueline Levy (Afterword By), and Jacques Levy
The only authorized biography of Cesar Chavez - featuring three reflective essays new to this edition.


Mexican-American civil rights and labor activist Cesar Chavez (1927–1993) comes to life in this vivid portrait of the charismatic and influential fighter who boycotted supermarkets and took on corporations, the government, and the powerful Teamsters Union. Jacques E. Levy gained unprecedent...
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Social Crisis And Social Demoralization: The Dynamics Of Status In American Race Relations - Ronald Kuykendall
Social Crisis and Social Demoralization: The Dynamics of Status in American Race Relations provides an alternative perspective on American race relations - that race relations are status relations creating a series of behavioral consequences. Kuykendall argues that the racial problem is a political class conflict and must be resolved through revolutionary political class struggle. He adeptly unravels ...
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The Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism And The Class Struggle - Howard Zinn (Introduction by) and WIlliam A. Pelz (Editor)
Trade Unionist, Socialist, Presidential Candidate, Jailed Anti-War Activist: Eugene Victor Debs was all of these and more. Hist career spanned two centuries, from the Gilded Age into the roaring 1920s. Debs' radical presence was uniquely American. More than half a century after this voice of the coiveless fell silent, the former railroad worker still has much to offer.
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