Education & Resources – National Women’s History Museum – NWHM
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964)
Women and Marxism: Marxists Internet Archive
Women and Marxism: Marxists Internet Archive
This subject section has been created to provide broad documentation both on women’s issues and Marxism, and also a space for women’s writings that are significant, but transcriptions not currently volumous or organized enough to warrant their own section.
Some of these writers are not Marxists, but are included for context or reference. The intention is to also include the cultural as well as political milieu in which revolutionary women have worked during their struggles.
As with the rest of MIA, most heavily represented are classic texts. The few references to contemporary Marxism-Feminism are meant to be a gateway to further exploration for interested readers.
Communists in Harlem
Organizing against racism during the Great Depression
Communists in Harlem
February 24, 2006
WITH THE republication of Mark Naison’s book Communists in Harlem During the Depression (University of Illinois Press, 2005), a new generation of socialists will have the opportunity to learn the lessons of Communist Party’s (CP) antiracist organizing in the 1930s. ADAM TURL explains why the CP’s successes, and mistakes, are important today.
Communists in Harlem During the Depression provides a new generation of socialists with lessons that can help build today’s struggles–and create a political alternative, so that the next historic opportunity, when it comes, will not be lost.
Notes on the 1946 General Strike
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When people found out that we were making work about Oakland, we were asked one question time and again: “What do you know about the general strike?” The answer was, not much. We’d never heard of it before moving to the city. For us, this video was a way to learn about the strike—it took place in 1946, and was the last of many general strikes that broke out in America in the first half of the 20th century—and relate it to our present-day experience of Oakland. The Taft-Hartley Act, which passed—overriding a presidential veto—in 1947, was a direct response to the six General Strikes that broke out in 1946. Still in effect today, Taft-Hartley puts severe limits on labor’s abilities to call strikes.
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Oakland General Strike 1946
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1946: The Oakland general strike – Stan Weir
1946: The Oakland general strike – Stan Weir
An account by Stan Weir of the gen strike in Oakland, California, in 1946.
The Oakland (California) General Strike was an extension of the national strike wave. It was not a ‘called’ strike. Shortly before 5 a.m., Monday, December 3, 1946, the hundreds of workers passing through downtown Oakland on their way to work became witness to the police herding a fleet of scab trucks through the downtown area. The trucks contained commodities to fill the shelves of two major department stores whose clerks (mostly women) had long been on strike. The witnesses, that is, truck drivers, bus and streetcar operators and passengers, got off their vehicles and did not return. The city filled with workers, they milled about in the city’s core for several hours and then organised themselves.
1946 Oakland General Strike – Oakland – LocalWiki
1946 Oakland General Strike – Oakland – LocalWiki
In 1946, the largest general strike in U.S. history took place in Oakland. The strike effectively shut the city down for nearly three days (1946) Protestors surround a mail truck at the Oakland General Strike of 1946
The 1946 Oakland General Strike began as 425 mostly women employees working at two department stores, Kahn’s and Hastings, went on strike for wage equality beginning in November 1946.
The last Oakland general strike
The 1946 Oakland General Strike
The 1946 Oakland General Strike
The 1946 Oakland general strike began with a dispute at two downtown department stores, Hastings’ and Kahn’s, where 425 clerks (mostly women) were on strike for union recognition.
