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Oakland: Class War Lessons: The Bay Area General Strikes

Date:
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Time:
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Event Type:
Speaker
Organizer/Author:
Gifford
Email:
SFBay (at) FlyingPicket.org
Location Details:
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library
6501 Telegraph Ave. (at Alcatraz)
Oakland
510-595-7417

Class War Lessons: The Bay Area General Strikes

Presented by Louis Prisco and Gifford Hartman

Readings: “Unions with Leaders Who Stay on the Job” by Stan Weir (chapter 9 in ‘We Are All Leaders’: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s, edited by Staughton Lynd) also available as the pamphlet “Class War Lessons: From Direct Action on the Job to the 1946 Oakland General Strike” which can be obtained by e-mailing SFBay(at)FlyingPicket.org.

Description: Multi-media presentations, newsreel footage and photos, with critical analyses of the two general strikes that rocked the Bay Area: San Francisco in 1934 and Oakland in 1946.

The presentations will be based on first-hand accounts of solidarity in the two strikes, showing how they both began with the initiative of the rank-and-file, but will also show the many weaknesses that prevented them from realizing their radical potential.

Discussion will follow.

Wheelchair accessable.


Sponsored by The Institute for the Critical Study of Society



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