“Communal Sensibility”: the Minneapolis Mass Strikes of 1934 and Today
“In these terrible happenings you cannot be neutral now,” Meridel Le Sueur wrote of Minneapolis in 1934. “No one can be neutral in.
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Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
1934 and Now: History Lives!
Over the first three decades of the 20th century, Minneapolis was the most notorious “open shop” city in the country. An employers’ organization (the.
- by Peter Rachleff
- November 22, 2024
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On the “Trucker” Protests in the U.S. and Canada
“Freedom” is a fickle force, especially when it is expressed in the guise of aggressive flag-waving nationalism. Recent convoys in Canada and the.
- by Ian Rocksborough-Smith
- March 14, 2022
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Dining Out in Dinkytown: Remembering the Minneapolis Truckers’ Strikes of 1934
This is a different and expanded version of a previously published essay that appeared in Jacobin. Dinkytown’s Best Breakfast If you are in.
- by Bryan Palmer
- November 7, 2014