Hosted by Harry Bridges School of Labor In January 1937, the Flint Sit-Down Strike, the “strike heard around the world,” challenged General Motors in what would transform the UAW forever. Join us as the Harry Bridges School of Labor again leads our class for Part 2 of a two-week presentation on the Flint Sit-Down Strike. […]
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Hosted by Harry Bridges School of Labor In January 1936, the Flint Sit-Down Strike, the “strike heard around the world,” challenged General Motors in what would transform the UAW forever. Join us as the Harry Bridges School of Labor again leads our class for Part 1 of a two-week presentation on the Flint Sit-Down Strike.
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From 1936 to 1939, brave patriots from all over the world joined in the struggle to safeguard the Spanish Republic and democracy against the Hitler-Mussolini backed General Francisco Franco. In the United States, the volunteers, which were sourced and led greatly by the CPUSA but also included anti-fascist fellow travelers, made up the Abraham Lincoln
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On December 17, 1951, black communist heroes William L. Patterson and Paul Robeson submitted a petition to the United Nations. This petition put out by the Civil Rights Congress called attention to the over 10,000 lynchings of black Americans (likely much more that went unreported) committed since the abolition of slavery in 1865. Further, the
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Join us as our allied organization Independent Progressive Political Action Clubs of America presents on Vito Marcantonio. As we work to build a Labor-Led Anti-Monopoly coalition, we decided to put the spotlight on a progressive hero during the Popular Front Period and subsequent Post-War Period. This man, Vito Marcantonio, bravely fought against attacks on labor,
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November 12th – Social Movements in India In the middle of the 18th Century, the British Empire colonized the land that contains India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Towards the late 19th Century and early 20th Century, independence movements sprang up. The British, savvy as it was in dividing and pitting the subject populations against one another
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October 22nd – The October Revolution by: J.V. Stalin Join the People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies for a reading and examination of The October Revolution by Joseph Stalin. The October Revolution is a collection of articles and speeches by General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, JV Stalin. We have republished this
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October 15th – Ten Days That Shook the World Join the People’s School of Marxist-Leninist Studies for a presentation on John Reed’s work concerning the Russian Revolution, 10 Days that Shook the World. John Reed wrote about the revolution as it unfolded in front of him. This work is the inspiration for the movie Reds!
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September 17th – Belarus: the Last Soviet Republic Join the Peoples School at 8 pm EST on Tuesday, September 17th as we discuss the history of Belarus after the treacherous counter-revolution of 1991 which illegally broke up the USSR. We will discuss the politics, government, Party, and the situation in Belarus during the 1990s. Please join
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Today the Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies commemorates the deathof President Salvador Allende of Chile who on this day in 1973 was murderedduring a brutal US-backed coup d’etat by General Augusto Pinochet. Allende, who belonged to the Socialist Party of Chile, was democratically elected to lead theChilean people in October 1970. Under President Allende, quality
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