As soon as it is admitted that the whites and the emancipated blacks are placed upon the same territory in the situation of two foreign communities, it will readily be understood that there are but two chances for the future: …
Expelling the Union Dissenter from History When Cesar Chavez came to organize farm workers, his cause was applauded by every labor and liberal group; when Joseph Yablonski stepped forward to lead insurgent miners and was murdered, there was mostly silence. …
In the Communist Manifesto, which was completed in February 1848, Marx and Engels envisaged a society in which there would be only two classes—capitalist and worker, the few who owned the means of production and the many who lived by …
Myra Wolfgang is international vice-president of the Hotel, Motel and Restaurant Employees’ Union, as well as secretary-treasurer of its Local 705 in Detroit. She also heads the Coalition for Women’s Advancement. This interview was held in Detroit by Bernard Rosenberg and …
How It Looks in Allegheny County In October 1969, Edward Spear, president of the United States Steel Corporation, was given a “Good Neighbor” award by a now defunct organization called the Cleaner Air Week of Pittsburgh. Less than a month …
I In recent years the American working class has been called conservative, militant, reactionary, progressive, authoritarian, social democratic and, the unkindest cut of all, nonexistent. Except for the last, all the labels fit. The labor movement—I sharpen the focus on …
Mike Fitzgerald lives in a two-flat dwelling, somewhere in Cicero, on the outskirts of Chicago. He is 37 years old, works in a steel mill. On occasion his wife, Carol, works as a waitress in a neighborhood restaurant; otherwise she’s …
Detroit in the 1970s is startlingly different from the factory complex associated with the auto industry, the UAW, and Walter Reuther. Auto workers no longer rush to and from huge industrial plants on the east and west sides. Now the …
One talks to these retired garment workers, these small, stooped men and women. They have aged as they have been used. Time is supposed to weather, not crumble. Things are not supposed to take the place of people. But I …
Can We Reduce the Costs of Industrialism? The oppressiveness of much of the work performed by blue-collar workers is imbedded in the very structure of industrialism. My objective here is to identify these structural features and suggest their effects on …
“Monsieur le bourreau, encore un moment. ” —Madame du Barry, under the guillotine “Everyone has the right to life. …” —Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations Human life is inviolable. It is given to us, but it does not belong …
The Killings at Attica What, after all, can one tell the readers of Dissent about the ghastly events at Attica? That prison conditions are shameful throughout the country, driving convicts to desperation? That the authorities in these, as in other institutions, …
On Decentralization and Participation in America Adieu Prince I have tasks a sewer project And a decree on prostitutes and beggars I must also elaborate a better system of prisons Since as you justly said Denmark is a prison . …
Legislative Proposals for Social and Economic Reform Legislation as a way to the Good Society is in bad repute, a passage beset with pitfalls and infested with outlaws. Jefferson once said, “No good measure was ever proposed which if duly pursued …
Opposition to Zionism is as old as Zionism itself; it has come from many directions, Jewish and non-Jewish, Left and Right, religious and atheist. It has been asserted on the one hand that the Zionist goal was impossible to achieve, on …
