Author: Scott NearingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
World Labor Unity
Author: Scott NearingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
ACTWU Labor Unity
Author: World Labor Unity
Author: Scott NearingPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258060060
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The American Labour Split and Allied Unity
Author: Bryn RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : International labor activities
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The American Federation of Labor and World Labor Unity
Author: William GreenLabor's News
Author: American Labor from Defense to Reconversion
Author: Joel SeidmanPublisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Resolution on the Achievement of Labor Unity
Author: The Movement for World Trade Union Unity
Author: Thomas BellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Cry Was Unity
Author: Mark SolomonPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496801040
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
The Communist Party was the only political movement on the left in the late 1920s and 1930s to place racial justice and equality at the top of its agenda and to seek, and ultimately win, sympathy among African Americans. This historic effort to fuse red and black offers a rich vein of experience and constitutes the theme of The Cry Was Unity. Utilizing for the first time materials related to African Americans from the Moscow archives of the Communist Inter-national (Comintern), The Cry Was Unity traces the trajectory of the black-red relationship from the end of World War I to the tumultuous 1930s. From the just-recovered transcript of the pivotal debate on African Americans at the 6th Comintern Congress in 1928, the book assesses the impact of the Congress's declaration that blacks in the rural South constituted a nation within a nation, entitled to the right of self-determination. Despite the theory's serious flaws, it fused the black struggle for freedom and revolutionary content and demanded that white labor recognize blacks as indispensable allies. As the Great Depression unfolded, the Communists launched intensive campaigns against lynching, evictions, and discrimination in jobs and relief and opened within their own ranks a searing assault on racism. While the Party was never able to win a majority of white workers to the struggle for Negro rights, or to achieve the unqualified support of the black majority, it helped to lay the foundations for the freedom struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. The Cry Was Unity underscores the successes and failures of the Communist-led left and the ways in which it fought against racism and inequality. This struggle comprises an important missing page that needs to be returned to the nation's history.