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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 Iโ€™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.ย  They own the Fiat Chrysler Corporation, Ferrari, and have a controlling interest in Turinโ€™s Juventus football team, one of the premier clubs in Europe.ย  The Agnellis arenโ€™t exactly ...

#NYCStripperStrike: Race, Class and Women’s Work

โ€œHoney, I guess you can sum up this business in one sentence,โ€ stripper Bobbie Bruce told reporter Jack Griffin at Minskyโ€™s Rialto Theater, a hub of early-1950s Chicago burlesque. โ€œYou grab as much sex as the ...

โ€œA New Life Awaits You . . .โ€: 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 โ€œGood Housekeeping,โ€ smiling middle-class families, sparkling swimming pools and accolades such as โ€œexquisite apartment homes.โ€ย  But beneath ...

The Chicago Womenโ€™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 Womenโ€™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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Itโ€™s the middle of the month and the eviction notices are out. Walking past peopleโ€™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: โ€œEveryone who has ever lived there ...