#22 Bill Fletcher Jr on Labor Organizing in the USA
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Organizing against the odds. Most of us at some point believed the illusion that our government was on our side or perhaps that it was neutral. But when governments clearly...
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Time stamps:
00:00 - Destroying the IWW
00:32 - Intro
02:00 - Early years
05:53 - Unions are not monolithic
08:55 - Black Power Movement
13:29 - Working, Welding and Learning
18:38 - Industrial Decline and the War on Workers
27:36 - Organizing, Law, Teaching and Obstacles
32:25 - A Socialist Working in a Capitalist World
40:19 - The Violence of Anti-Unionism
45:20 - Infiltration and Suspicion of US Internationalism
49:50 - Internationalism, Apartheid and TransAfrica
59:13 - "Unapologetic Marxist"
1:09:45 - Advice to Future Generations
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