America’s First Red Scare
100 years ago the American state clamped down on the country’s militant trade union movement. Then, as now, Red Scares aren’t rooted in hysteria – they’re about ensuring capital remains unchallenged.
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Ahmed White
Ahmed White is a professor of law at the University of Colorado-Boulder and the author of The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America.