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The Coal Miners’ General Strike of 1949-50 and the Birth of Marxist-Humanism in the U.S.

Written by Andy Philips with a foreword by Raya Dunayevska this gives an overview of the 1949-1950 US coal strike by a participant.

Submitted by Mike Harman on August 11, 2017
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The pamphlet was written in the 1980s, but covers the period when Dunayevska and CLR James were working together in the Johnson-Forest tendency just as they left the Socialist Workers Party in the context of the strike.

The-Coal-Miners-General-Strike.pdf (6.69 MB)
  • CLR James
  • Raya Dunayevskaya
  • Marxist Humanism
  • United States
  • strikes
  • mining
  • Johnson–Forest Tendency
  • Andy Phillips
  • post-WWII strike wave

syndicalist

4 years 9 months ago

In reply to Welcome by libcom.org

This is an excellent pamphlet

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