Reprinted from Monthly Review, Volume 65, Number 11 (April 2014) http://monthlyreview.org/2014/04/01/practical-solution-urgent-need By Gregg Shotwell Gregg Shotwell is a retired UAW member who frequently contributes poems to the Blue Collar Review, and is the author of Autoworkers Under the Gun (Haymarket Press,…
Happy International Workers Day!
To mark May Day we recommend Bev Grant’s song “We Were There.” The link takes you to a page with the song and video. http://bevgrant.com/we_were_there/
W.E.B. DuBois on the Meaning of Work
From a speech given in 1953: W.E.B. DuBois on the Meaning of Work
“How to Defang a Movement: Replacing the Political with the Personal”
“How to Defang a Movement:Replacing the Political with the Personal” was a panel presented at an unusual academic conference called A Revolutionary Moment: Women’s Liberation in the Late 1960s and the Early 1970s at Boston University on March 27-29, 2014.…
“Red Love” A Consciousness-Raising/Discussion
The following email correspondence began informally with a forwarded link to an article entitled “Alexandra Kollontai and Red Love” by Teresa L. Ebert available at http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/1724. Ebert’s article began, “WHAT IS ‘RED Love’—and more specifically, what is a socialist, or…