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Organizing


Self-organized Yellow Vest Protest Movement Exposes Inequality and Hollowness of French Regime

Richard Greeman

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Ignored by Macron, distorted by the media, courted by the Right, snubbed by the Left, the self-organized mass movement known as the Yellow Vests is seriously challenging the political and economic order in France. In Paris, ...

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The future of labor unions

Noel Ignatiev

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Heard on the radio this morning: Gus Atsas, newly-elected president of United Steelworkers Local 1014, which has about 2,020 members at U.S. Steel Gary Works (which once employed 27,000 people and where your correspondent had the ...

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Black Panthers

The Ex-Panther

Curtis Price

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When I lived in Baltimore and went to events sponsored by the anarchist bookstore, often I’d notice the presence of one or two ex-Panthers, stray corks bobbing in an ocean of youthful whiteness. They stayed to ...

Italian Auto Workers Demand Red Card

The Left Hook

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The mega-rich Italian Agnelli family has bulging coffers.  They own the Fiat Chrysler Corporation, Ferrari, and have a controlling interest in Turin’s Juventus football team, one of the premier clubs in Europe.  The Agnellis aren’t exactly ...

#NYCStripperStrike: Race, Class and Women’s Work

“Honey, I guess you can sum up this business in one sentence,” stripper Bobbie Bruce told reporter Jack Griffin at Minsky’s Rialto Theater, a hub of early-1950s Chicago burlesque. “You grab as much sex as the ...

“A New Life Awaits You . . .”: Alabama Tenants’ Counter-Narratives to Landlord Hype

Curtis Price

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When you look at apartment websites, you are always greeted with pictures of immaculate living rooms right out of “Good Housekeeping,” smiling middle-class families, sparkling swimming pools and accolades such as “exquisite apartment homes.”  But beneath ...

The Chicago Women’s Liberation Rock Band, 1970-1973

Naomi Weisstein

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A Memoir and Reflection on Badass Boffo Revolutionary Feminist Music by Naomi Weisstein Introduction by John Garvey Naomi Weisstein was a founding member of the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union in 1969 and, soon afterwards, a founding ...

Guntersville, Alabama: Eugene Debs, Sweet Tea and the Quest for Cheap Housing

Curtis Price

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The first time I saw an unfurled and flown Confederate flag in Alabama was about four years ago on my first trip to Guntersville. In a small squatter trailer camp nestled in a field off Route ...

Flags of Distress

Curtis Price

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It’s the middle of the month and the eviction notices are out. Walking past people’s doors, you see the attached white court papers, fluttering in the breeze like so many SOS flags of distress, signaling that ...

Tenants in Huntsville, Alabama

Curtis Price

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Responses from a “Look Out For One Another” list post in Huntsville, Alabama, where a tenant posted pix of rotten conditions such as exposed wires at a nearby apartment complex: “Everyone who has ever lived there ...