Toni Gilpin
@tonigilpin.bsky.social
Labor Historian, writer. Loyal to Chicago but longing for Paris. Author of The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor & Class War in the American Heartland https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1383-the-long-deep-grudge
How the Chicago-based, Communist Party-associated Farm Equipment Workers union paid homage, on May Day 1938, to Chicago's anarchist martyrs of 1886
May 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
How the Chicago-based, Communist Party-associated Farm Equipment Workers union paid homage, on May Day 1938, to Chicago's anarchist martyrs of 1886
Headlines, May 1 1886.
May 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Headlines, May 1 1886.
Reposted by Toni Gilpin
Annual May Day plug for you to read many of the books on this list but specifically The Long Deep Grudge, a book I cannot and will not shut up about, which has deeply influenced my understanding of unions and what is possible in them.
May 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Annual May Day plug for you to read many of the books on this list but specifically The Long Deep Grudge, a book I cannot and will not shut up about, which has deeply influenced my understanding of unions and what is possible in them.
I'm genuinely moved that my book has touched the "rust belt heart" of @mattexx.bsky.social . Made my day -- thanks!
Took me about three months to get through this, but damn! My rust belt heart is overflowing. Thanks @haymarketbooks.org for telling the story I heard about but never understood until now.
April 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I'm genuinely moved that my book has touched the "rust belt heart" of @mattexx.bsky.social . Made my day -- thanks!
Terrific piece providing both a razor-sharp takedown of Isserman's spurious CP history & a valuable overview of the communist organizing in the 20th century, underscoring the centrality of antiracism to those efforts. And thanks @blbalthaser.bsky.social for the shout-out to The Long Deep Grudge!
My review essay for The Baffler of Maurice Isserman’s “Reds.” Apparently quitting DSA over its support for Palestine wasn’t good enough: Isserman gave us 400 pages of Cold War era liberal anti-communism. Just in time for a new red scare thebaffler.com/latest/mauri...
Maurice Isserman’s Red Scare | Benjamin Balthaser
A new history of the CPUSA read like a Cold War throwback.
thebaffler.com
November 21, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Terrific piece providing both a razor-sharp takedown of Isserman's spurious CP history & a valuable overview of the communist organizing in the 20th century, underscoring the centrality of antiracism to those efforts. And thanks @blbalthaser.bsky.social for the shout-out to The Long Deep Grudge!