Militant History

Labor Militant
Issue 01 (April/May/June 1986)

End dictatorship of big business

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  1. Member, Local 36, United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC), Oakland. 

  2. Member, District Council (DC) 37, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), New York City. 

  3. Member, District 65, United Automobile Workers (UAW), New York City. 

  4. Refers to general strike of 5,000 workers backed by Newfoundland Federation of Labor and New Democratic Party. 

  5. Member, Editorial Board of Inqaba ya Basebenzi (Xhosa: Workers’ Fortress), journal of the Marxist Workers’ Tendency of the African National Congress (ANC), published in London due to the ANC being illegal. 

  6. Refers to Congress of South African Trade Unions. Reprinted from the British Militant, December 1985. 

  7. “Insurrectionary general strike.” 

  8. Member, Local 6, Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (HERE), New York City.  2

  9. “Hotel strike.” 

  10. Refers to Trans World Airlines. 

  11. Communication Workers of America, San Francisco. 

  12. Member, Local 1202, ATU (Amalgamated Transit Union), New York. 

  13. Refers to Local P-9, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), Austin, MN; Hormel meatpacking plant. 

  14. Public water utility, Oakland.