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the strikes came before striking was legalized

Great changes in strategic and tactical approaches develop slowly. They are most often the product of a long line of evolutionary development which includes not only phases of slow growth but leaps and giant forward strides.

The first such struggle was for the right "to think unthinkable thought…

—p.103 High Tech, Low Pay: a Marxist Analysis of the Changing Character of the Working Class Offensive Strategies: Workers' Control (103) by Sam Marcy
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it's only the ownership that may undergo some changes

Once the workers are frozen into the capital-labor relationship, once that is dogmatically accepted as the permanent condition of the workers, once this business of a fair day's work for a fair day's pay is the conception, it inevitably follows that the workers must make concessions regardless of w…

—p.101 Defensive Trade Union Strategies (97) by Sam Marcy
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the theory of the identity of interests

A workers' party must challenge and continually demonstrate the utter falsity and perniciousness of this idea. It must be continually demonstrated that the interests of the employers and the workers are diametrically opposed to each other, that the evolution of capitalist society demonstrates the e…

—p.98 Defensive Trade Union Strategies (97) by Sam Marcy
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such vague terms as fairness and justice

However, there is also the subjective factor, the traditional labor relations policy, the collective bargaining approach which is summed up in the AFL-CIO report: "Organized labor believes that each worker is entitled to a fair day's pay for a fair day's work; that pay should include a share in the…

—p.50 The Changing Character of the Working Class (41) by Sam Marcy
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a history of the Luddites

Luddites is a name frequently given to English workers who staged a series of uprisings between 1811 and 1816. These struggles began in Nottinghamshire, where groups of textile workers began to destroy knitting machines. They spread later to Lancashire, Cheshire and the West Riding of Yorkshire. Wo…

—p.4 The Crisis in the Trade Unions (1) by Sam Marcy