“Union Dues” is the title of a novel by the film maker John Sayles. I haven’t read it yet but people tell me its good. Its about a coal miner from West Virginia who is involved in union organizing and his relationship with his son, who runs away and becomes involved in Boston’s radical underground of the 60s and early 70s. There is a fictionalized version of Micheal Ansara. Ansara was for years a legend in Boston’s left activist scene. He was in Harvard SDS (Students for A Democratic Society) in the ’60s. Ansara was in jail twice. In the the late 60s he committed stock market fraud as a way of financing the SDS and other radical activities. Later in the 90s he was jailed for his shenanigans in connection with the reform movement in the Teamsters union. I am not familiar with all the details but people tell me he played a very destructive role in that movement.
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Interesting to Visit
- Black Agenda Report
News and views from the black revolutionary left - Break Their Haughty Power-Loren Goldner
Loren Goldner’s work Fascinating and educational - Chaos Marxism
- Common Dreams
- Counterpunch
- In Struggle-Dispatches from the Trotskyist Left
- Internationalist Group
- Left Voice
- Micheal Roberts Blog
- Mint Press
- Moon of Alabama
- Naked Capitalism
- Socialism and Democracy
- Stop Imperialism
Eric Draitser’s podcast at Counterpunch Radio. Worth listening to. - The Bureau of Public Secrets
- The Grayzone
Investigative journalism on politics and imperialism - The Jimmy Dore Show
An antidote to the corporate news crap. - The Polemecist
- Zero Hedge
Resources for Learning
- Bureau of Public Secrets
Has a huge collection of translated Situationist texts as well as Kenneth Rexroth’s autobiography - Cyril Smith
Late British libertarian communist. - David Harvey
David Harvey’s video series is a good resource for studying Marx’s Capital - Doug "Enaa" Greene's Youtube channel
Video’s on revolutionary history. Great resource - Kapitalism 101
Excellent video series on Marxist economics by Brendan Cooney - Marx and the Iroquois
The influence of Indigenous cultures on Marx by the late Chicago Surrealist artist Franklin Rosemont. - Marxist Internet Archive
- Moderate Rebels
Podcast hosted by Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton. Exposes the crimes and hypocrasies of the Empire. - The Movements: A Podcast History of the Masses
Kenny Garcia’s indespensible leftist history podcast - The Tragedy of The Chinese Revolution
Harold Issac’s history of the first Chinese revolution and it’s betrayal. Great read. - Trotsky Internet Archive
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