The lessons of the 1953 mass uprising (hartal) in Sri Lanka
The hartal showed that regardless of the intensity of a mass struggle, it will not succeed without a conscious Marxist leadership
Saman Gunadasa•
The hartal showed that regardless of the intensity of a mass struggle, it will not succeed without a conscious Marxist leadership
With General Motors threatening to shut five factories in the US and Canada, it is valuable for autoworkers to study the heroic 1936-37 sit down strike against GM’s operations in Flint, Michigan.
Since 1976 the Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), long a faction in the union bureaucracy, has been trying to replace IBT officials with those it claims will be more accountable to the rank and file.
If the Little Steel Strike has been ignored by historians, it is perhaps because it does not fit the standard narrative of American labor history.