Paul Buhle
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The Unbuttoned Mind of Jeremy Brecher

We are now in the 50th year since the appearance of Strike!, one of the most influential  books written in the New Left

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The Alabama Communists in Days of Yore

The rewriting of radical history has occupied two generations of US historians, in one way or another, and among some especially fine efforts

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Wobblies Repressed as  (almost) None Others

Paul Buhle’s review of Dean A. Strang, Keep the Wretches In Order: America’s Biggest Mass Trial, the Rise of the Justice Department and

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American Socialism, Revisited

Paul Buhle reviews The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History, by Jack Ross (2015) Paul Buhle

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The New Left, Labor History and the Unending Echoes of 1956

Stuart Hall with Bill Schwarz, Familiar Stranger: a Life Between Two Islands. Duke University Press, 2017. 271pp, $29.95 pbk Stuart Hall, Selected Political

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Irish Rebels at Home and Abroad

We have had quite a year, in 2016, of Irish history, certainly the biggest for decades. The centenary of the 1916 uprising offered

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Leftwing cartoons and comics offer unique view of mid 20th century

This new book of political cartoons, In an Era of Wars and Revolutions: American Socialist Cartoons of the Mid-Twentieth Century, edited by Sean

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Jobs With Justice: 25 years of trying to transform Gompersism in the labor movement

These days, successful labor activity among the unorganized seems to depend, in ever greater degree, upon “faith based organizing,” union efforts interfacing with

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Labor History Songs CD full of old favorites

The Union Makes Us Strong by Peter K. Siegel and Eli Smith is a wonderful collection of old favorites, enlivened by some fancy

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