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At General Motors, "What Means This Strike?"
Moody, Kim
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/859Date Written: 1998-09-01 Publisher: Against the Current, Michigan, USA Year Published: 1998 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX12897 IN HIS FAMOUS address to the striking New Bedford textile workers in 1898, Socialist Labor Party leader Daniel De Leon posed the question, "What Means This Strike?" De Leon told the workers their strike would be for naught if they didn't see it connected to the broader struggle of their class. He praised them for their courage and affirmed the socialist belief in the strike weapon, but warned that this strike, the second in recent time, would simply become one of a series of lost struggles... |