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On August 7, 1933, sugar beet workers strike in Oxnard, California, organized under the communist-led Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union, a communist union, went on strike. Part of a much larger set of agricultural strikes led by the CAWIU in 1933, the Oxnard strike...
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On July 16, 1931, a white mob murdered the black sharecropper organizer Ralph Gray in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. This murder demonstrated both the very real communist organizing among black sharecroppers in Alabama and the extent that whites would go to keep control of their rural...
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The Communists and the CIO

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On October 28, 2016
As far as it goes, this history of communists and the CIO in the 1930s and 1940s that Jacobin published is sound, both factually and historiographically, except for saying Though its role is rarely mentioned, and even less frequently assessed, the Left was central to...

A Comrade’s Valentine’s Day

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On February 14, 2015
Are you a Maoist who celebrates Valentine's Day? Then Freedom Road has some slogans for your day: Unite world-wide under the magnificent blood-red banner of revolutionary sex/love unfurled by Comrade Valentine! Uphold in word and practice the Comrade Valentine’s Day slogan spontaneously raised by the...
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