Tuesday, August 01, 2017

In Boston - 8/3 Dump The Bosses Off Your Backs: Putting Class Struggle Back On The Agenda (Thurs)

Bill Bumpus
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Dump The Bosses Off Your Backs: Putting Class Struggle Back On The Agenda
Thursday, August 3 – 6:00 p.m.
Somerville Public Library
79 Highland Avenue, Somerville

  • How work and society were organized prior to the rise of capitalism
  • How the wage system was viewed by workers as it arose
  • How workers organized and fought to oppose it, particularly the insurrectionary general strikes of 1877, May Day 1886, Pullman, Homestead, Lawrence, etc.
  • The Knights of Labor, the IWW, the role and nature of the AF of L and the CIO
  • The NLRA and the changes it wrought in the labor movement
  • The terrain since the Patco disaster of 1981
  • How we can recover the ability to fight back

Sponsored by Boston Labor Solidarity Committee (617) 702-2784
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