U.S. labor history – The Militant

Workers will develop a movement of their own, a labor party

Vol. 84/No. 28 - July 20, 2020

Workers in Baltimore battle state troopers as 1877 rail workers battle became first nationwide strike in U.S. history. Karl Marx called it “first eruption since the Civil War against the associated oligarchy of capital.” Out of 1884-86 struggles, unions took steps to form a labor party.

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