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@tonigilpin
Labor Historian, writer. Loyal to Chicago but longing for Paris. Author of The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor & Class War in the American Heartland https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1383-the-long-deep-grudge
@amysgamezone.com will appreciate
"He is not to be saluted. He is no longer in command."
"Job just didn't work out, huh?"
Couldn't resist posting this on this momentous occasion.
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Well @sonofahurricane.bsky.social you're tops in my book, on my book! Everyone should take your sage advice. I appreciate you! โค๏ธ
Thanx @mattexx.bsky.social! The Haymarket martyrs should be recalled not just as labor organizers but also anarchists, devoted to revolutionary unionism as the means to overthrow capitalism. Their radical theory was dubbed "The Chicago Idea." Read my book for more on that (& other labor stuff!)
How the Chicago-based, Communist Party-associated Farm Equipment Workers union paid homage, on May Day 1938, to Chicago's anarchist martyrs of 1886
Headlines, May 1 1886.
Annual May Day plug for you to read many of the books on this list but specifically The Long Deep Grudge, a book I cannot and will not shut up about, which has deeply influenced my understanding of unions and what is possible in them.
I'm genuinely moved that my book has touched the "rust belt heart" of @mattexx.bsky.social . Made my day -- thanks!
If you organize a reading group that includes my book (The Long Deep Grudge), I'd be happy to participate!
I'm 66 & have lived in the IL 9th CD for 30 years; hosted a coffee for Jan Schakowsky when she first ran for Congress in 1998; & was the ED of the Democratic Party of Evanston from 2008-12. And I'm super enthused about @katmabu.bsky.social 's candidacy. How's that for authentic support?
โค๏ธ That's more than I have (other than the box of books I keep to give away)
I think you are exactly the right amount of chatty.
Terrific piece providing both a razor-sharp takedown of Isserman's spurious CP history & a valuable overview of the communist organizing in the 20th century, underscoring the centrality of antiracism to those efforts. And thanks @blbalthaser.bsky.social for the shout-out to The Long Deep Grudge!
Me too!
You can add me! Thanks!