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A New Generation of Labor Leftists
Early, Steve | May 5, 1984 issue

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Thousands of veterans of the civil rights, antiwar, feminist and other community-based movements of the 1960s remain politically active in the U.S. A large proportion of them have rejected their middle-class or upper-middle-class origins and have spent the past decade working in the labor movement. That little-noticed transition has established the largest radical presence in the unions since the 1930s, when cadres from the Communist Party and other left-wing groups played a prominent role in the drive to organize industrial workers. Most new Leftists who entered the labor movement had hoped to win converts to socialism.

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LABOR unions & communism; LABOR movement; RADICALISM; CIVIL rights; COMMUNIST parties; COMMUNISM
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