Activity

Several party members then began to work in the Imperial Valley, organizing Filipino and Mexican field workers. Local authorities responded by arresting the most prominent organizers and charging them under the criminal syndicalism law. Of the eleven arrested, three were deported and one was found …

The District 13 Executive Committee waited until mid-July to launch their campaign for a “United Political front.” In a letter to the state SPA, the DEC proposed “to issue jointly a call to all labor unions and workers Fraternal Organiza- tions for the purpose of placing into the field a united lab…

For many of the years covered by this book, CP activity in the United States
followed a party line that originated in Moscow, especially during the existence
of the Communist International (1919–1943). For the 1930s especially, mate-
rial in RGASPI suggests an iterative process: U.S. party leade…

Beside the boat, he took the change from his pocket to count. There were a few coins of the republic which he was leaving, mixed in with E Pluribus Unum dimes and quarters, odd-looking shiny coins (he had made certain to put aside new ones) which he would drop on New York bars, by mistake. [...]

Activists should not, Klein concluded, blame the unfolding catastrophe in Iraq on the “absence of a plan,” but rather, “on the plan itself, and the extraordinarily violent ideology upon which it is based.” This is the neoliberal ideology that has also led to the privatization of water in Bolivia an…