IWW

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• SOURCE: New Books Network
  10/24/2022
  

  Ahmed White: How Capital Crushed the IWW

  Ahmed White's book on the IWW examines the effort to crush the radical union, and how the war on radical labor impacted free speech, political representation, and freedom of association. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  4/4/2022
  

  How Did Amazon Workers Win a Union? Look Back 100 Years

  by Kim Kelly

  The radical Black waterfront worker and organizer Ben Fletcher established a model of a democratic, antiracist, integrated labor union on Philadelphia's waterfront that echoes in the worker-led victory in establishing a union at Amazon's Staten Island warehouse. 

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• SOURCE: In These Times
  12/1/2020
  

  The Great Black Radical You've Never Heard Of

  by Peter Cole

  The author of a new book on an understudied Black labor radical presents context for an exerpt of an interview Ben Fletcher gave to the New York Amsterdam News, a rare surviving case of the organizer telling his own story.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/18/2020
  

  Scapegoating Antifa for Starting Wildfires Distracts from the Real Causes

  by Steven C. Beda

  The idea of left-wing radicals starting wildfires in the Pacific Northwest dates back to timber companies blaming the Industrial Workers of the World for blazes as a way to discredit demands for workers' power through unions.