October 2, 2014 By JoAnn Wypijewski (A shorter version of this piece was published in CounterPunch Magazine, September 19, 2014). JoAnn Wypijewski’s column “Diamonds and Rust” appears regularly in CounterPunch. She is co-editor, with Kevin Alexander Gray and Jeffrey St. Clair, of Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence, just out from… Read More »
STRIKE! REVISED AND EXPANDED
The original, 1972 edition of Strike! has been posted on-line at libcom.org. Strike! Revised and Expanded is available for purchase at PM Press. April 1, 2014 Since its original publication in 1972, no book has done as much as Jeremy Brecher’s Strike! to bring American labor history to a wide audience. Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated,… Read More »
SAVE THE HUMANS? COMMON PRESERVATION IN ACTION
October 1, 2011 “A medicine against apathy and political despair much-needs in the U.S. and the world today – Peter Marcuse, Columbia University “Jeremy Brecher’s work is astonishing and refreshing; and, God knows, necessary.” -Studs Terkel “I have never learned more useful knowledge about advocacy than from this book. -Mike Pertschuk, former chair, Federal Trade… Read More »
BANDED TOGETHER
May 1, 2011 ONE COMMUNITY’S RESPONSE TO GLOBALIZATION AND DEINDUSTRIALIZATION Click here to download a free pdf copy of Banded Together. Providing incisive commentary on the historical and contemporary American working class experience, Banded Together: Economic Democratization in the Brass Valley documents a community’s efforts to rebuild and revitalize itself in the aftermath of… Read More »