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By Claudia Kaiser-Lenoir
April 28, 2023

Rail strike in West Virginia, above, set off 1877 general strike. Karl Marx wrote that the policies of the capitalist rulers would “turn the Negroes” and “convert the farmers of the West” into allies of the workers, forging the class forces that would make a revolution in the U.S.

Rail strike in West Virginia, above, set off 1877 general strike. Karl Marx wrote that the policies of the capitalist rulers would “turn the Negroes” and “convert the farmers of the West” into allies of the workers, forging the class forces that would make a revolution in the U.S.