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Philip Sheldon Foner (1910–1994)

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Philip S. Foner (1910-1994) was a prolific people's historian whose many works include Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981, The Black Panthers Speak, Clara Zetkin: Selected Writings, and The Letters of Joe Hill, all published in new editions by Haymarket Books.
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The Black Panthers Speak (1970) — Redaktör — 252 exemplar
Case of Joe Hill (1965) 59 exemplar
The Social Writings of Jack London (1947) — Redaktör — 42 exemplar
Mark Twain: social critic (1958) 35 exemplar
Mother Jones Speaks: Collected Speeches & Writings (1983) — Redaktör — 27 exemplar
Postwar struggles, 1918-1920 (1955) 25 exemplar
Kate Richards O'Hare, selected writings and speeches (1982) — Redaktör — 19 exemplar
Basic Writings of Thomas Jefferson (1944) — Redaktör — 18 exemplar
The T.U.E.L., 1925-1929 (1991) 16 exemplar
Frederick Douglass (1964) 16 exemplar
Karl Marx Remembered: Comments at the Time of His Death (1983) — Redaktör — 12 exemplar
Jack London: American Rebel (1947) 4 exemplar
Thomas Jefferson 1 exemplar
Clara Zetkin - Secme Yazilar (2012) 1 exemplar
Black Worker During the Era of the Knights of Labor (1978) — Redaktör — 1 exemplar
Voice Blk America (1972) 1 exemplar
The Black Panthers Speak (2020) 1 exemplar
On Education By Jose Marti (1979) 1 exemplar

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This is not just a storey of a massive lack of justice, it is a warning to us all, that you have to treat the people that you don't like with as much respect, and honesty, as the ones that you do.

Joe Hill was a trouble maker to the elite of Utah: he was a member of the IWW (the Industrial Workers of the World); something between a trade union and a political grouping looking for a proletarian revolution. With the aid of the Church of Latter Day Saints, who naturally believe that the rich have God on their side, the bourgeoise of the state wanted him gone.

Hill became tentatively linked to a shooting and his enemies saw their chance: from that moment on, Joe Hill was never going to get a fair trial. Just how unfair it was, is hard to believe.

Hill was shot, murdered by the state. The 'victors' became vilified and Hill, a hero. Why is history so often more just than the present?
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the.ken.petersen | 1 annan recension | Jul 12, 2022 |
Philip Foner was a well-known historian of the US labour movement, editor of the works of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jack London, etc., frequently in trouble because of his Marxist associations. In recent years he's come under criticism for apparent plagiarism in some of his works.

Professor Foner examines Mark Twain's published and unpublished views on a wide range of the social and political issues of the day, reminding us that, tempting as it is just to enjoy him as a humorist, he was also a very moral writer, with strong — and rarely orthodox — views on all sorts of questions. Unlike a lot of very principled writers, he was also not afraid to admit that he was wrong after listening to argument: there were many questions where he impetuously leapt in wrong foot first and then came back with a different, more considered position after talking to people who actually knew something about it.

Of course, the big one is slavery: Twain grew up in a slave-owning family and community in the South and never seems to have questioned the rightness of that until he was well into adulthood, but when the penny finally dropped he produced some of the most influential and sympathetic literary accounts of the human cost of slavery in "A true story", Huckleberry Finn and Pudd'nhead Wilson.

Twain also overcame initial prejudices to become a defender of all oppressed racial minorities in America, including the Chinese workers he saw being beaten up during his time in California. His attempt to conquer antisemitism with his essay "Concerning the Jews", however, was a classic case of write first, think later. With the best of intentions he managed to perpetuate all sorts of damaging anti-Jewish stereotypes — it even ended up being (selectively) quoted in antisemitic texts of the 1930s. Feminism was another area where he started out mocking but soon became a convert.

Foner doesn't quite manage to claim Twain as a Marxist (he did, after all, engage in nearly as many unsuccessful capitalist business schemes as Balzac), but he does find plenty of evidence that he consistently supported workers' rights to decent conditions and a fair wage, and encouraged them to organise in trade unions to defend those rights. Towards the end of his life he also became a vocal critic of all forms of imperialism, including the US seizure of the Philippines and the British war in South Africa; his "Soliloquy of King Leopold" is credited with helping to end some of the worst abuses in the Congo.
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thorold | Feb 21, 2022 |
Very critical of Samuel Gompers and the elitism, racism, and weakness of the AFL as advocates for the working people.
 
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gregdehler | Sep 12, 2020 |
A fascinating glimpse into the dramatic struggles of a union seldom written about.
 
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