Editors' Blog
Breaching the Divide: Labor Militancy in Memphis
The 1930s and 40s were both vibrant and trying times for American workers. The two decades encompassed a great depression, and a concluding Second World War. Uniquely, among these conditions, the labor movement in America was led by various groups; from radicals "reds" such as the Communist Party(CPUSA) to the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). The vivacity of the 1930s labor movement should be seen as militancy for collective action among workers, perpetuated by external societal conditions. Both race and anticommunism played heavy roles in the resistance movement against labor organization by both white southern workers and upper level officials and state legislators. Memphis, TN was chosen by Michael Honey as the focus study of analyzing the history of labor organization in the South, and provides a deep insight into the realities of race, anticommunism, and their effect on labor conditions. The fight for community and worker solidarity within the workplace was a vibrant struggle against not only harsh economic conditions, but also social conditions that sought to alienate racial and ethnic groups to fragment the Southern labor movement into stagnation.
Walter Rodney on fascism
We have heard the news from Greece about attacks on immigrants by theextreme right - but the news is even worse - evidently the police areallowing the neo-nazis to take responsibility for certain securityfunctions that should be their responsibility.
A Second Bill of Rights for America by Norman Markowitz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UwUL9tJmypI
Yet another late Marxist IQ in the Wake of Saturday's AFL-CIO Rally in Philadelphiaby Norman Markowitz
Ongoing poltical struggles, the AFL-CIO rally this saturday which I was proud to attend, even watching baseball games on TV and checking Dodger scores, kept me from this week's Marxist IQ. But here it is, with some Marxist insights from the rally, where many speakers spoke about the need to...
Media and Fascist Murder in Wisconsin by Norman Markowitz
Sam Webb, General Secretary of the CPUSA, wrote an important article on the murder in Wisconsin of Indian-American people of the Sikh religion by an army veteran with more than a decade of involvement with Neo Nazi groups.
Understanding the Standoff in Mali
via Foreign Policy In Focus
The Russian Revolution: An Essential Condition for Success
Thomas RigginsIn the second chapter of his 1920 work "Left Wing" Communism an Infantile Disorder, Lenin discusses what he considers to have been an essential condition for the victory of the Bolsheviks.
a very late Marxist IQ for this week by Norman Markowitz
Here is a late Marxist IQ for the week. I will try to focus on current events, not so much on Marxist theory or even on history
