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Seven Days that shook the Windy City: Reflections on a Chicago teachers strike

There was serious carb-loading and elevated caffeine levels for days as strike sympathizers brought muffins, cookies, donuts, pop and coffee to picket lines.

Stewart Acuff Blogs on the Job Report

Stewart Acuff is former National Organizing Director for the AFL-CIO, and the most successful  organizer in modern labor history.

Some Questions for CEO Romney by Norman Markowitz

I saw the debate yesterday after it was over and after the self-fulfilling and self-congratulating commentaries by the "media", the pundits, etc. 

More on Eric Hobsbawm by Norman Markowitz

I am writing this as a possible correction because I  received an obit that Eric never formally left the Communist Party of Great Britain.  Given the positions that he took and his later political involvements(and the fact that in the times that I spoke with him when he was here...

Let's Fight for a Progressive Agenda

via Progressive America Rising via HuffPost

Chapter 3 of Left Wing Communism

Principal Stages In The History of Bolshevism 1905-1917 and their Relevance TodayThomas RigginsLenin, in his book "'Left Wing' Communism An Infantile Disorder," written in 1920, maintains that there are lessons from the Russian Revolution that may be of more general interest than to Russia alone.

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