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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE RIGHT TO STRIKE?

Posted by Jeremy Brecher

June 1, 2005   Review of “If the Workers Took a Notion”: The Right to Strike and American Political Development by Josiah Bartlett Lambert (Cornell University Press, 2005) During the 1970s, the Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded nearly 300 major work stoppages per year.  By the 1990s, the number of major strikes had fallen to… Read More »

Filed Under: Labor, Review

REPLY TO CHUCK MORSE, “THEORY OF THE ANTI-GLOBALIZATION MOVEMENT”

Posted by Jeremy Brecher

May 2, 2003   I thank Chuck Morse for his critical review of Globalization from Below—I consider a good critic to be one’s best friend.(1) The book’s prime objective was to provoke discussion about the goals and practices of what’s often referred to as the anti-globalization movement, and in this case we clearly succeeded. In… Read More »

Filed Under: Article, Book, Climate, Globalization, Globalization from below, History, Review, Social Movements

THE TRAJECTORY OF CHANGE

Posted by Jeremy Brecher

July 14, 2002 In the 1960s student activists used to say, “Don’t trust anyone over 30.” The fact of the matter is, there were few people over 30 worth trusting. Until the student movement made its mark, pathetically few Americans were willing to support militant action for racial equality or forthrightly oppose the war in… Read More »

Filed Under: History, Review, Social Movements

A NEW LABOR MOVEMENT IN THE SHELL OF THE OLD?

Posted by Jeremy Brecher

March 1, 1996   by  Tim Costello and Jeremy Brecher   Labor Research Review #24: PART I: THE POLITICS OF REFORM PART II: THE FUTURE OF THE REFORM AGENDA JOHN SWEENEY RESPONDS RON CAREY RESPONDS JANE SLAUGHTER RESPONDS PART I: THE POLITICS OF REFORM A lot has changed since the formation of the AFL-CIO 40… Read More »

Filed Under: Article, Labor, Labor history, Review, Social Movements

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ABOUT JEREMY BRECHER

11You and I may not know each other, but I suspect there are some problems that we share -- problems like climate change, war, and injustice. For half a century I have been participating in and writing about social movements that address those problems. The purpose of this website is to share what I've learned. I hope it provides something of use to you in addressing our common problems.

For the record, I am the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements. I have written and/or produced more than twenty video documentaries. I have participated in movements for nuclear disarmament, civil rights, peace in Vietnam, international labor rights, global economic justice, accountability for war crimes, climate protection, and many others.

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  Human Survival Movement

Climate Protection

  Climate and Labor

  Climate Insurgency

  Against Doom

  Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs

Labor History

  Strike!

  Common Sense for Hard Times

STRIKE! Commentaries on Solidarity and Survival

  • Social Strike for Social Self-Defense: The Last Recourse Against Tyranny
  • Make the Fossil Fuel Powers Stranded Assets
  • How a Movement-Based Opposition Defeated the First Trump Coup
  • Movement-Based Opposition: A Successful American Example
  • Social Self-Defense: From Protest to Contest
  • The Movement-Based Opposition in Action
  • Social Self-Defense: From Protest to Movement-Based Opposition

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