Labor’s Next Chance:
What American Workers
Can Learn from the 1930s
From International Trotskyist No. 9, Winter 1993-94.
Introductory Note: As the current global crisis of capitalism deepens, workers must organize collectively and employ class struggle methods in order to defend themselves from massive layoffs, wage and benefit takebacks, plant closures, and cuts in social services. This article, first published in 1993, encourages American workers to learn valuable lessons from the history of the militant labor movement that rose up during the last Great Depression.
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