Tag: Flint

Progressivism: The Practical Center

(Analysis.) When we think of the full political spectrum, from pure socialism on the left to unbridled capitalism on the right, we find progressivism at the center – not the left, as is commonly thought. Under socialism, the people own the …

The Flint Sit-Down Strike Story

(The Women’s Emergency Brigade) In 1936 & ‘37, workers sat down in Chevrolet plants in Flint, Michigan, and fought to stay there for 44 days, until they won the right to have their union bargain for them.60 Soon after that…