US Government Repression of Radical Wobblies Union Offers Lessons of Hope and Warning for Today’s Labor Activists

Interview with Ahmed White, professor of Law at the University of Colorado, Boulder, conducted by Scott Harris

Ahmed White talks about his new book, “Under the Iron Heel, The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers,” a dramatic, deeply researched account of how legal repression and vigilantism brought down the Wobblies — and how the destruction of their union haunts us to this day.

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