"One of the first-ever uses of aerial-dropped bombs was against the miners' army in West Virginia. The Italians had done it a few years earlier in Ethiopia."

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #RobertOvetz, author of #WhenWorkersShotBack: #ClassConflict from 1877 to 1921

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-april-30-2025/

#labor #labour #laborHistory #labourHistory #USlaborHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #GreatRailroadStrikeOf1877 #WestVirginiaCoalWars #PullmanStrike #books @bookstodon @histodons

#Labor historian #JeffSchuhrke talks with the #NewBooksNetwork about his book "#BlueCollarEmpire: The Untold Story of #USLabor's Global Anticommunist Crusade "

https://youtu.be/pFRhxwSklxs
#USlabour #AFLCIO #AFL #CIO #labour #LabourHistory #LaborHistory #UShistory #USLaborHistory #USpol #USpolitics #CIA #AIFLD #USimperialism #LaborMovement #LabourMovement #USLaborMovement #ColdWar #anticommunism #books

Kevin Gosztola interviews #JeffSchuhrke, #labor historian, journalist, union activist, and author of #BlueCollarEmpire: The Untold Story of #USLabor's Global Anticommunist Crusade

https://youtu.be/7IYKQyLRH78
#labour #LabourHistory #LaborHistory #USLaborHistory #AFLCIO #UShistory #USpol #USimperialism #USpolitics #CIA #ColdWar #TradeUnions #USTradeUnions #anticommunism #books

“ 'The mass media, right up to The New York Times, was supporting the police story that they had no choice but to open fire on this mob,' says #GregMitchell, who directed the new PBS #documentary #MemorialDayMassacreWorkersDieFilmBuried, and edited a companion book that is the first oral history on the tragedy."

#MemorialDayMassacre: #Chicago Cops Killed 10 During 1937 Steel Strike, Then the Media Covered It Up

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/5/26/memorial_day_massacre_1937_greg_mitchell

#LaborHistory #USLaborHistory #PoliceViolence