Great Strike of 1877 showed the power of the US working class
Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 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.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Rail_Strike_1877_8718-300x219.jpg)
The Great Labor Uprising of 1877 by Philip S. Foner is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. After five years of economic depression, West Virginia railroad workers went on strike in the face of wage cuts and…