#BlueCollarEmpire

2024-11-08

> + Jeff Shurke, Blue Collar Empire: “The 2020 election was a miraculous reprieve. Dems had a short window to enact the kinds of sweeping, New Deal-style reforms necessary to reverse the rise of fascism. They obviously failed, or rather fulfilled Biden’s promise to donors that “nothing would fundamentally change.”
counterpunch.org/2024/11/08/th
#uspol #BlueCollarEmpire #JeffShurke #JeffreyStClair #Counterpunch

2024-10-08

h/t #HamiltonNolan

The Sordid History of Organized Labor's Foreign Policy Sins

An interview with #JeffSchuhrke about #BlueCollarEmpire."

hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-sordid

#AFLCIA #AFL

image of US President George H. W. Bush snuggling Lane Kirkland, President of AFL-CIO (1979-1995). 

caption: "Lane Kirkland and friend."
2024-09-03
2024-09-01

Excellent presentation at #HaymarketBooks' #Socialism2024 conference by #labour historian #JeffSchuhrke, author of #BlueCollarEmpire, about the #AFLCIO's sordid history of collaboration with #USimperialism, from the destabilization/overthrow of progressive governments to the undermining and violent repression of labour/progressive movements at home and abroad

youtu.be/294Ned7QB0U
#USlabor #labor #LabourHistory #LaborHistory #UShistory #USpol #USpolitics #CIA #ColdWar #anticommunism #books

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