Guantánamo: A Working-Class History

Jana K. Lipman. Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution. Berkeley University of California Press, 2009. x + 325 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-25539-5; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-25540-1.

Reviewed by Robert S. Robinson (Ohio University)
Published on H-Diplo (March, 2010)
Commissioned by Dustin Walcher

GTMO and Guantánamo: Labor Relations between Cuba and the United States

Pennsylvania Labor History Workshop

The Pennsylvania Labor History Workshop will be holding its initial meeting on May 8th, at 10 AM at the Cornwall Iron Furnace Historic Site in Cornwall. Labor historians from across the state will be gathering to set up a steering committee for the group and to finalize other organizational issues. The Workshop offers PA labor historians the opportunity to meet on a regular basis and to engage with on-going work by fellow scholars aboutthe history of working people in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

The Sixties

CfP: The Sixties in National and Transnational Perspective: Communications and Protest Movements - St Andrews 09/10

Centre for Transnational History
University of St. Andrews, St Andrews
16.09.2010-17.09.2010, School of History, University of St Andrews
Deadline: 15.04.2010

The Sixties in National and Transnational Perspective: Communications and Protest Movements

Black Flame

Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism, Counter-Power Vol. ILucien van der Walt & Michael Schmidt

Black Flame examines the anti-authoritarian class politics of the anarchist/syndicalist movement, and its 150 years of popular struggle on 5 continents. An indispensable conceptual and historical road map, with close attention to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America, looking at its:

    Opposition to hierarchy, capitalism and the state
  • Strategy: building revolutionary counter-power