Oakland General Strike (1946)
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Flying Picket Historical Society discussion of the 1946 Oakland General Strike on KPFA's "Against the Grain"
Dividing and conquering the working class with drug testing: Hawaii teachers, coercion and a failure of working class solidarity
This is a piece written by an anonymous teacher in Hawaii in response to the teachers' union accepting a contract with mandatory drug testing in exchange for a raise.
The National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards: Union Democracy, Civil Rights and American Communism, 1934-1954
A good deal has been written about the experiences of left-led unions in the United States at the outbreak of the Cold War, but much less has been written about the origins and mechanics of the radicalism for which individual unions were targeted during the accompanying red scare.
Rat Monday 1988
1988 "Near Riot" in San Francisco:
10,000 Workers Protest Rat Contractors Meeting
by Frank McMurray
West Coast correspondent
*This first appeared in New York Hard Hat News, a rank and file construction worker publication:*
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