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How (or How Not) to Build a Labor Movement
Looking at the Pullman Strike and the political forces it stirred.
by
Jake Pitre
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
August 22, 2018
For Socialism and Freedom: The Life of Eugene Debs
How Eugene V. Debs turned American republicanism against the chiefs of capitalism – and became a true crusader for freedom.
by
Tom O’Shea
via
Aeon
on
October 2, 2023
America’s Missing Labor Party
The history of labor strikes shows that, in order to achieve lasting success, workers need to capture political power.
by
David Sessions
via
The New Republic
on
October 2, 2018
The Unsung History of Heartland Socialism
The spirit of socialism has coursed through the American Midwest ever since the movement emerged, continuing to animate the political landscape today.
by
Miles Kampf-Lassin
via
In These Times
on
August 30, 2024
America’s Oldest Railway Union Must Break With Its Right-Wing Past
Why does the government have the power to break massive union strikes? Part of the story is a history of conciliatory railway unionism.
by
Maya Adereth
via
Jacobin
on
January 9, 2023
Strikers, Octopi, and Visible Hands: The Railroad and American Capitalism
The railroad company remains a site for Americans to grapple with key questions about the nature of American capitalism.
by
Scott Huffard
via
Clio and the Contemporary
on
December 20, 2022
The Railway Labor Act Allowed Congress to Break the Rail Strike. We Should Get Rid of It.
Congress was able to break the rail strike last week because of a century-old law designed to weaken the disruptive power of unions.
by
Nelson Lichtenstein
,
Andrew Yamakawa Elrod
via
Jacobin
on
December 7, 2022
Freight-Halting Strikes Are Rare, and This Would be the First in 3 Decades
Some rail unions are resisting government pressure to accept a new employment contract, but history suggests the authorities will keep the trains running.
by
Erik Loomis
via
The Conversation
on
November 22, 2022
The Gadfly of American Plutocracy
Far from a marginal outsider, a new biography contends, Thorstein Veblen was the most important economic thinker of the Gilded Age.
by
Simon Torracinta
via
Boston Review
on
November 30, 2020
Eugene Debs Believed in Socialism Because He Believed in Democracy
Eugene Debs’s unswerving commitment to democracy and internationalism was born out of his revulsion at the tyranny of industrial capitalism.
by
Shawn Gude
via
Jacobin
on
September 2, 2020
When King was Dangerous
He's remembered as a person of conscience who carefully broke unjust laws. But his challenges to state authority place him in a much different tradition: radical labor activism.
by
Alex Gourevitch
via
Jacobin
on
January 21, 2019
When America's Most Prominent Socialist Was Jailed for Speaking Out Against World War I
After winning 6 percent of the vote in the 1912 presidential election, Eugene Debs ran afoul of the nation's new anti-sedition laws.
by
Erick Trickey
via
Smithsonian
on
June 15, 2018
John Dewey's Experiment in Democratic Socialism
Despite his reputation as a liberal, Dewey's staunch commitment to democracy put him on a collision course with capitalism.
by
Alexander Livingston
,
Ed Quish
via
Jacobin
on
January 8, 2018
When Labor Day Meant Something
Remembering the radical past of a day now devoted to picnics and back-to-school sales.
by
Chad Broughton
via
The Atlantic
on
September 1, 2014
Objection
Clarence Darrow’s unfinished work.
by
Jill Lepore
via
The New Yorker
on
May 23, 2011
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