[WSMDiscuss] Fwd: 50th Anniversary Edition of Jeremy Brecher's STRIKE!

Fri May 8 23:56:48 CEST 2020

Friday, May 8, 2020
Workers in movement…, Resistance in movement…, Studies in movement…

[Congratulations, Jeremy !  Happy 50th !  You’re getting younger every day !

50th Anniversary Edition of Jeremy Brecher's STRIKE !

PM Press and Jeremy Brecher

            In celebration and in solidarity !

            JS

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> From: Jeremy Brecher <jeremy.brecher at gmail.com>
> Subject: 50th Anniversary Edition of Jeremy Brecher's STRIKE!
> Date: May 8, 2020 at 4:28:41 PM EDT
> To: undisclosed-recipients:;

Dear friends,

I'm writing to let you know that PM Press has just published a 50th anniversary edition of my history of rank-and-file labor struggles, STRIKE!, with a 100-page update on the "mini-revolts of the 21st century."

To find out more go to the publisher's page for the book at https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1085 <https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1085> 

And this month you can order copies and help PM publish the book by going to their Kickstarter campaign: 
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>  <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001B8oWXXW5RX5a-cohx5tr-u1oJj-XgVst79EDUy2b5jmtPdS4U0bLCzHiD_4SgbfpDiYZ4lZmhlKCEr0G1Rdn2D14Ll_7LeXtROEGxReCgdi3DddCTUfAPgZp0T0JPFIsOe0-D-dQNHzz-ikSUocf-V8sJjNXpnDShwbp-mI8EPdPguObqzoBS6ofH5kTC92ClWW5epaXxxSUkG00NqW9PQ==&c=D2TNccKSR3BcC8rZwJU6JSsAdxrWF8QOLLfAD62ZUvBYw4lm3JY86Q==&ch=qH2P2rMebbiVsqwdKRBgwuJ131jdg4QaTqZPLnl3MbWHXyFEolDULA==>
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> Celebrate people's history this May and beyond by helping us publish the 50 year anniversary edition of Jeremy Brecher's  <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001B8oWXXW5RX5a-cohx5tr-u1oJj-XgVst79EDUy2b5jmtPdS4U0bLCzHiD_4SgbfpDiYZ4lZmhlKCEr0G1Rdn2D14Ll_7LeXtROEGxReCgdi3DddCTUfAPgZp0T0JPFIsOe0-D-dQNHzz-ikSUocf-V8sJjNXpnDShwbp-mI8EPdPguObqzoBS6ofH5kTC92ClWW5epaXxxSUkG00NqW9PQ==&c=D2TNccKSR3BcC8rZwJU6JSsAdxrWF8QOLLfAD62ZUvBYw4lm3JY86Q==&ch=qH2P2rMebbiVsqwdKRBgwuJ131jdg4QaTqZPLnl3MbWHXyFEolDULA==>Strike! <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001B8oWXXW5RX5a-cohx5tr-u1oJj-XgVst79EDUy2b5jmtPdS4U0bLCzHiD_4SgbfpDiYZ4lZmhlKCEr0G1Rdn2D14Ll_7LeXtROEGxReCgdi3DddCTUfAPgZp0T0JPFIsOe0-D-dQNHzz-ikSUocf-V8sJjNXpnDShwbp-mI8EPdPguObqzoBS6ofH5kTC92ClWW5epaXxxSUkG00NqW9PQ==&c=D2TNccKSR3BcC8rZwJU6JSsAdxrWF8QOLLfAD62ZUvBYw4lm3JY86Q==&ch=qH2P2rMebbiVsqwdKRBgwuJ131jdg4QaTqZPLnl3MbWHXyFEolDULA==>–the definitive history on American labor. This revised, expanded, and updated edition has over one hundred pages of new material, a Preface by Sara Nelson, the International President of the Association of Flight Attendants–CWA, AFL-CIO, and a Foreword by labor journalist Kim Kelly. We're raising $5,000 or more on Kickstarter to help bring this important book to life. The more funds we raise, the more copies we can print. Learn more, preorder the book, and check out all the rewards.
> LEARN MORE <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001B8oWXXW5RX5a-cohx5tr-u1oJj-XgVst79EDUy2b5jmtPdS4U0bLCzHiD_4SgbfpDiYZ4lZmhlKCEr0G1Rdn2D14Ll_7LeXtROEGxReCgdi3DddCTUfAPgZp0T0JPFIsOe0-D-dQNHzz-ikSUocf-V8sJjNXpnDShwbp-mI8EPdPguObqzoBS6ofH5kTC92ClWW5epaXxxSUkG00NqW9PQ==&c=D2TNccKSR3BcC8rZwJU6JSsAdxrWF8QOLLfAD62ZUvBYw4lm3JY86Q==&ch=qH2P2rMebbiVsqwdKRBgwuJ131jdg4QaTqZPLnl3MbWHXyFEolDULA==>
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> Jeremy Brecher’s Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. Involving nationwide general strikes, the seizure of vast industrial establishments, nonviolent direct action on a massive scale, and armed battles with artillery and tanks, this exciting hidden history is told from the point of view of the rank-and-file workers who lived it. Encompassing the repeated repression of workers’ rebellions by company-sponsored violence, local police, state militias, and the U.S. Army and National Guard, it reveals a dimension of American history rarely found in the usual high school or college history course.
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> Since its original publication in 1972, no book has done as much as Strike! to bring U.S. labor history to a wide audience. Now this fiftieth anniversary edition brings the story up to date with chapters covering the “mini-revolts of the twenty-first century,” including Occupy Wall Street and the Fight for Fifteen. The new edition contains over a hundred pages of new materials and concludes by examining a wide range of current struggles, ranging from #BlackLivesMatter, to the great wave of teachers' strikes “for the soul of public education,” to the global “Student Strike for Climate” that may be harbingers of mass strikes to come.
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> Praise:
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> “Jeremy Brecher’s Strike! is a classic of American historical writing. This new edition, bringing his account up to the present, comes amid rampant inequality and growing popular resistance. No book could be more timely for those seeking the roots of our current condition.”
> —Eric Foner, Pulitzer Prize winner and DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University
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> “Magnificent—a vivid, muscular labor history, just updated and rereleased by PM Press, which should be at the side of anyone who wants to understand the deep structure of force and counterforce in America.”
> —JoAnn Wypijewski, author of Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence
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> “An exciting history of American labor. Brings to life the flashpoints of labor history. Scholarly, genuinely stirring.”
> —New York Times
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> “Splendid . . . clearly the best single-volume summary yet published of American general strikes.”
> —Washington Post
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> “A magnificent book. I hope it will take its place as the standard history of American labor.”
> —Staughton Lynd, author of Solidarity Unionism and coauthor of Labor Law for the Rank and Filer
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> About the Contributors:
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> Jeremy Brecher has participated in movements for nuclear disarmament, civil rights, peace, international labor rights, global economic justice, accountability for war crimes, climate protection, and many others. He is the author of fifteen books on labor and social movements, including the national best seller Strike!. He has received five regional Emmy awards for his documentary film work. He is currently policy and research director for the Labor Network for Sustainability.
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> Sara Nelson is international president of the Association of Flight Attendants–CWA, AFL-CIO. During the 2019 government shutdown, her call for a general strike helped showcase the power aviation employees can wield by withholding service and helped lead to the reopening of the government.
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> Kim Kelly is the labor columnist for Teen Vogue. Her writings on labor, politics, and culture have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Pacific Standard, and many others. She is a proud member of the Writers Guild of America, East, and has been active in multiple organizing and contract campaigns since 2015.
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> p.s. I just started a series of "commentaries on solidarity and survival" called "Strike! Jeremy Brecher's Corner." You can take a look and even subscribe at: https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/ <https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/> 
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____________________________

Jai Sen

Independent researcher, editor; Senior Fellow at the School of International Development and Globalisation Studies at the University of Ottawa

jai.sen at cacim.net <mailto:jai.sen at cacim.net>
Now based in New Delhi, India (+91-98189 11325) and in Ottawa, Canada, on unceded and unsurrendered Anishinaabe territory (+1-613-282 2900) 

CURRENT / RECENT publications :

Jai Sen, ed, 2018a – The Movements of Movements, Part 2 : Rethinking Our Dance. Ebook and hard copy available at PM Press <http://www.pmpress.org/>
Jai Sen, ed, 2018b – The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us Move ? (Indian edition). New Delhi : AuthorsUpfront, in collaboration with OpenWord and PM Press.  Hard copy available at MOM1AmazonIN <https://www.amazon.in/dp/9387280101/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1522884070&sr=8-2&keywords=movements+of+movements+jai+sen>, MOM1Flipkart <https://www.flipkart.com/the-movements-of-movements/p/itmf3zg7h79ecpgj?pid=9789387280106&lid=LSTBOK9789387280106NBA1CH&marketplace=FLIPKART&srno=s_1_1&otracker=search&fm=SEARCH&iid=ff35b702-e6a8-4423-b014-16c84f6f0092.9789387280106.SEARCH&ppt=Search%20Page>, and MOM1AUpFront <http://www.authorsupfront.com/movements.htm>
Jai Sen, ed, 2017 – The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us Move ?.  New Delhi : OpenWord and Oakland, CA : PM Press.  Ebook and hard copy available at PM Press <http://www.pmpress.org/>
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