> I've read about scattered local actions over the past three years, frequently in black neighbourhoods, but has anything even remotely resembling the forms of struggle in the 30's by the unemployed and the evicted (national organizations, conferences, marches) appeared anywhere in the US over the past three years?
No, but let's not fall for the optical illusion of hindsight. First of all, these things didn't exist in the 30's either, until somebody organized them. Second, they appeared to observers at the time more as "scattered local actions" than as major events. It's only because they later led to bigger things that historians *in retrospect* treat them as important; they didn't seem all that important at the time. Third, anything organized by the Communists was perceived as a Potemkin-village front for a tiny, despised sect made up mainly of culturally heterodox immigrant Jews (with a sugar-daddy in the background providing the funds). And the perception had a lot of truth to it, until around 1933, almost four years into the Depression.
SA