A set of writers I respect w/o the Stalinoid politics of Schrecker
http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/inde/inde_intro.html "In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage, " by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr. http://www.h-net.org/~hoac/ (Klehrm Haynes, Schwartz on the Right, over to the anti-Stalinst Left of Alan Wald and the Maoist manias of Grover Furr.)
who present a positive acct. and analysis of the CPUSA, I will read. http://squawk.ca/lbo-talk/0211/2309.html http://titles.cambridge.org/catalogue.asp?isbn=052179840X Left Out Reds and America's Industrial Unions
Judith Stepan-Norris, Maurice Zeitlin http://assets.cambridge.org/0521792126/sample/0521792126WS.pdf (Sample chapter) £19.95
December 2002 | Paperback (Hardback) | 392 pages 2 line diagrams 22 tables
| ISBN: 052179840X
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From the late 1930s through the mid-1950s, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) brought together America’s working men and women under a united class banner. Of the 38 CIO unions, 18 were ‘left-wing’ or ‘Communist-dominated’. Yet the political struggle between the CIO’s ‘Communist dominated’ and right-leaning unions was immensely divisive and self-destructive. How did the Communists win, hold, and wield power in the CIO unions? Did they subordinate the needs of workers to those of the Soviet regime? The authors provide testable answers to these questions with historically specific quantitative analyses of data on the CIO’s origins, internal struggles, and political relations. They find that among the CIO unions, the Communists were more egalitarian, the most progressive on class, race, and gender issues, and leading fighters in struggles to enlarge the freedom and enhance the human dignity of America’s workers.
1. The congress of industrial organizations (CIO): left, right, and center; 2. ‘Who gets the bird?’; 3. Insurgency, radicalism, and democracy; 4. Lived democracy: UAW local 600; 5. ‘Red company unions’?; 6. Rank-and-file democracy and the ‘class struggle in production’; 7. strangers to their own class?; 8. ‘Pin money’ and ‘pink slips’; 9. The ‘big 3’ and interracial solidarity; 10. The red and the black; 11. Conclusion: an American tragedy; 12. Epilogue: the specter of a ‘third labor federation’.