Week of Events
Sunday, October 17, 2021
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Monday, October 18, 2021
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Tuesday, October 19, 2021
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Wednesday, October 20, 2021
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October 20, 2021 -The Bisbee Deportation / The Battle of Blair Mountain
The Bisbee Deportation / The Battle of Blair Mountain
• On July 12, 1917, in the mining town of Bisbee Arizona, twelve hundred striking miners and their supporters were rounded up by forces organized by the town sheriff and the mining companies, marched through the town, parked in the town's baseball field, and then put in boxcars and shipped into the New Mexican desert.
• When the smoke cleared on the Battle of Blair Mountain, an estimated 1 million rounds were fired, dozens were killed, and 985 miners were arrested. The uprising was suppressed, but public awareness about the appalling conditions in which the miners were forced to live, work, and raise their families grew considerably.
Thursday, October 21, 2021
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Friday, October 22, 2021
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Saturday, October 23, 2021
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October 23, 2021 -James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38
James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38
Situating this dissident communist movement within the history of class struggle, both national and international, Palmer examines how Cannon and others fought to revive a combative trade unionism, thwart fascism and the drift to war, refuse Stalinism’s many degenerations, and build a new Party and a new International, both of which would be dedicated to reviving and realizing the possibilities of revolutionary socialism.