From The Free Speech Movement To The Fac

Name: From The Free Speech Movement To The Fac
Brand: Haymarket Books

Haymarket Books

From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory FloorA Collective History of the International Socialists\nAuthor(s): Andrew Stone Higgins\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Haymarket Books, United States\nImprint: Haymarket Books\nISBN-13: 9798888905074, 979-8888905074\nSynopsis\nFrom the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floordocumentsthe overlooked history and lasting influence of the International Socialists through the words of its members.\n\nThe Independent Socialist Club, founded at UC Berkeley in 1964 as a radical civil rights group, lit the spark of the Free Speech Movement that same year, and its members and successor organizations would go on to play an outsized role in shaping the course of both the Black freedom struggle and the rank-and-file labor insurgency of the 1970s.\n\nFollowing their success in the Bay Area, the ISC launched chapters across the country, and in 1969 became the International Socialists, with much of its growing membership relocating to the Midwest to ta.