A century ago, Daniel McCorkle and Robert Lynd advocated for workers in the western mining communities where they lived and preached. Two of their contemporary descendants examine their relationship in struggle against the Rockefeller empire.
We stand together on one side of a great river, which we all must cross. The workers at the French watch factory Lip swam ahead, and lit a beacon for us all.
For some time after Students for a Democratic Society in 1962 coined the term “participatory democracy,” it was received with more humor than respect by civil rights workers in the South. The concept has become important this past winter, for …
“Where we differ,” the administrator said, “is that you think a college should be a democracy; you forget that it is a corporation.” The student wrote: “To be a Negro in America is a perpetual wonder and bewilderment.” The remarks …
