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,…
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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…