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Tag Archives: Workers Battle Automation
‘A Dreadful Deceit’ and unceasing rebellion
Jacqueline Jones’ new book, A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America, is not a call to ignore effects of the concept of race in law and practice. She finds the definition of race repeatedly twisted to suit the needs of the ruling class and wielded as a tool for subjugation of Black and white labor alike. Continue reading
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Tagged 1949-50 coal miners’ general strike, A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America, African Americans, American Civilization on Trial: Black Masses as Vanguard, Black liberation, Charles Denby, Chrysler Mack, Detroit, Great Migration, Indignant Heart: A Black Worker's Journal, Jacqueline Jones, labor, Lowndes County Alabama, News & Letters, racism, revolution, sharecropping, Simon P. Owens, slavery, strike, UAW, United States, wildcat strikes, workers, Workers Battle Automation
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Renewed attention to Charles Denby
Charles Denby is once again gaining well-deserved attention. Most recently, a blog post from “Anti-capitalist meetup” points to his contributions, especially the pamphlet Workers Battle Automation. The post is Trillions in Capitalist Wealth: Where Does It Come From? by Justina. Here’s … Continue reading
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Tagged African Americans, Anti-capitalist meetup, Black revolt in the U.S., Charles Denby, Defining Moments: The Great Migration North 1910-1970, Denby, Detroit, Indignant Heart: A Black Worker's Journal, Justina, labor, Laurie Harris, News and Letters Committees, Workers Battle Automation
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Marxist-Humanist pamphlets on the web
Announced here: http://criticismetc.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/scanned-collection-of-marxist-humanist-pamphlets/ The HathiTrust Digital Library has made available full-text scans of sixteen pamphlets published by News & Letters between the years 1960 and 1984. Among them are several classics which have never received the audience they deserve, including Workers Battle … Continue reading
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Tagged Afro-Asian Revolutions, American Civilization on Trial, automation, Black Brown and Red, Black Mass Revolt, Black-Red Conference, Civil rights movement, Czechoslovakia, France May 1968, Ivan Svitak, Karl Marx, labor, Mao's China and the Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Mario Savio, Marxism, Marxist-Humanism, Maryland Freedom Union, News and Letters Committees, Notes on Women's Liberation, Peter Cadogan, Prague Spring, Raya Dunayevskaya, State Capitalism and Marx's Humanism, The Fetish of High Tech and Karl Marx's Unknown Mathematical Manuscripts, The Free Speech Movement and the Negro Revolution, United States, workers, Workers Battle Automation, Working Women for Freedom
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