Dockworker Power: Racial Justice, Class Struggle, and Proletarian Internationalism
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
History Professor Dr. Peter Cole (previous guest from our IWW episode) joins Breht again, this time to discuss his fascinating new book Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area. We discuss the labor history of dockworker unionism, the racial justice campaigns that workers in Apartheid South Africa and the United States partook in, the impact of these labor struggles on local cultures, proletarian internationalism, and so much more.
Check out Peter's book here: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/48ydk2be9780252042072.html
Learn more about Peter here: http://www.wiu.edu/cas/history/cole.php
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| 0:31.6 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
| 0:41.0 | On today's episode we have historian Peter Cole back on the show. |
| 0:44.7 | He was on our previous episode about a few months ago that we did on the IWW and the |
| 0:49.5 | history of the IWW. |
| 0:51.2 | He's back on this time to talk about his new book, Doc Warker Power, Race and Activism |
| 0:56.6 | in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area. |
| 0:59.5 | This is a fascinating book covering the struggles for racial justice and class struggle, |
| 1:05.9 | tying them together, showing their connections across space and time. |
| 1:10.2 | We talk about how workers in South Africa would strategically use their power as Doc |
| 1:16.0 | workers in support of dismantling the apartheid state and how workers in San Francisco, |
| 1:22.4 | Doc workers have and continue to shut down work and throw up strikes in solidarity with |
| 1:30.4 | racial justice, activism and racial justice movements. |
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