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Lessons from the U.S. Labor Party

Lessons from the U.S. Labor Party

Update: 2025-12-22
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“The bosses have two parties,” they said. “We need one of our own.” In 1996, representatives and activists from hundreds of local and international unions came together to launch a workers’ party — long missing from U.S. politics. Labor Party participant and economist Howard Botwinick discusses the organization’s challenges and promise, and the lessons from its rise and fall — including how the failure to build leftwing politics rooted in the working class created a vacuum that was ultimately filled by the right. (Encore presentation.)


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Lessons from the U.S. Labor Party

Lessons from the U.S. Labor Party

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